Hormone hell

[eveiya]

Bleh. I have, always, fairly extreme PMS, experiencing all the symptoms of a bad cold/mild flu plus added brain-effects (blurred vision, aphasia, mental fog, inability to concentrate, depression, lethargy, pre-migraine-type visual and auditory symptoms and sometimes full-blown migraines and so on) for three days before my period and two or three

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[eveiya]

I think my actual periods are best described as short and sharp - quite a heavy blood flow with vicious cramps and tiredness for the first three days then tailing off quickly after that and over altogether within about five days. I guess that's fairly average? My normal cycle isn't 28 days but more like 24 or 25 days, though.

In the past, I've tried about every version of the pill doctors were willing to prescribe for me, but had bad reactions - as in, worse than my natural PMS/period symptoms in one way or another - to all of them. Some gave me permanent PMS, so that I felt my thinking was impaired all the time (ugh!), others gave me irregular and long-lasting periods, sore boobs or other weird physical effects; one even seemed to give me thrush. Eventually I just gave up, because even when I was in a relationship with a guy, it wasn't worth it. I guess if I'd believed I was going to be with a male partner for long, I'd have gotten sterilised, but I'm so crap at sustaining relationships that issue's barely come up so far.

Your doc made me laugh! :-D