SharonB wrote:
It definitely helps me to anticipate it (3 days prior to period). Then I can give myself a "pass" for one day. My husband has been good that when I don't remember and feel like it's all just hopeless to remind me it's
That day. It's funny-weird to me that each month that day's hopelessness is so
consuming and I have to "remember" to let it pass unexamined. I also have to avoid migraine triggers for the few days before and week after my period. I am considering increasing my anti-anxiety med just a touch temporarily the week before (per dr's suggestion).
For me the positive is that I also have the effects of ovulation - I am a social butterfly. There is a day or two where I am compelled to schedule events and contact friends. So that day I feel completely hopeful? That passes too.
I try to use it to good effect.
Pros and cons of hormonal cycles.
Effects of ovulation usually makes me aggressive (not in a good way), angrier, moodier, emotional and impulsive...
Not to mention worse sleep quality and insomnia. Also oily skin.
Doesn't make me a social butterfly -- not even in an active but odd way sociable -- it just made me an impulsive chatter with even lesser brain and mouth filter to a point that I might as well pick fights and actually offend everyone in every other month.
I hate it. It's actually a cause of conflict during work.
Before that, it's daytime sleepiness before ovulation... It could've been funny, but it's actually annoying.
Before menstruation? Crappier cognitive performance, depression, brain fogs... 2-4 weeks of that.
Past 3 weeks was my chance to 'adapt' to that state until whatever adaptation was rendered useless within a week or less.
Menstruation is a 50/50 regaining a sense from the fog, to further worsen symptoms. And a very small chance of being myself for a day or week.
After menstruation is either a chance to recover from that, or nothing -- it just goes to dealing with pre-ovulation symptoms.
There's no "pass" for me. Not with more negative effects than positives. Only "luck" that lasts a day or week every few months to years at best.
Maybe I really should get a pill.