There seems to be a common thread running amongst my friends at the moment - full-on, hardcore, debilitating PMT. The sort of PMT that makes you question your own sanity and sends you into a deep dark place where no-one dare follow. For some of us this is something they've had to live with for a very long time but for those of us who haven't really had to deal with this experience before it's hard, really hard.
My personal experience is text-book and is bang on each month. Ten days before the inevitable my brain changes gear - I actually feel my brain changing over. Clumsiness, (dropping iphones, putting things in fridge that shouldn't be there) tiredness, lack of motivation, irritability which starts out at a liveable level 5 but then culminates in all-out warfare and finally the depression. All rational thought processes go out the window, all you want to do is sit and wallow. For some of us we hit the Curly Wurly's, others the Sauv Blanc but none of them make any difference, if anything they make us feel even worse about ourselves.
Well I'm taking a stance. It's only lunchtime and I've already had one phone call and one email about how awful their PMT was making them feel today. I want to get to the bottom of this, why should we have to deal with being Jekyll and Hyde every month? So girls, girls, girls - I want your remedies. I want to hear any folk-lore old wives tales out there. I made this decision myself before Christmas and I've started the Evening Primrose Oil regime, which helped. Kalms are the herbal equivalent of Valium and seem to take the edge of the irritability but all it does is mask the symptoms, I want to find a way of us not feeling this dreadful anymore.
It may be a case of doing more exercise, yoga etc but I know that my friends and I who do these things regularly still suffer. Maybe the way forward is happy pills but I'd rather avoid those completely and find a more healthy way of dealing with this.
Oh and apparently there's no cure for PMT but there's always Liz Lemon:
2 comments:
I would love to get a remedy. Day 2 each month I am usually a bear (not a cuddly one). Last month I was mean to hubby and kids for no apparent reason. I'm sure my girls saw my head spin around as they asked me to lay with them before bed.
Funny, the picture of your head spinning around xx
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