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PMT quirks

I Have *interesting* PMT, it comes in stages over a week

the first stage is the: I feel fat, where i vow to diet..and then have a massive bar of chocolate

the second stage is the, anything young, small, cute, fluffy, sexy or ugly makes me cry- seriously i was bawling when i saw little reception kids today!!

the final, and third stage is the paranoia stage, it's a classic-anything gets you worked up, panic attacks are common and you start getting overly worried as your period is a few minutes late and you could be pregnant (eeeek!!)

Whats everyone elses like, had any weird experiences which you can only simply pin down to PMT.. In my opinion i get it at the worst time of the month, pay day..so im more likely to spurge to make myself feel better!!!

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Reply 1
I get hungrier more than usual, just before I'm due is about the only time I'll have 3 meals a day and frequently snap. I have a short temper anyways but its gets worse, I'm also a lot more flirty and give men the eye when I go out :redface:
Reply 2
i usually just get paranoid that i'm pregnant, and laugh at myself a few days later..****ing hormones.
After that comes immense paranoia about fatness. joy
My stomach grumbles a lot, but thats about it :smile:
Somehow though, i always pull if i go out right at the end of my period.. weird..
I doNT get PMT...AT ALL....Just uper super horny.
Reply 4
skinnyblackjeans
I doNT get PMT...AT ALL....Just uper super horny.




thats not pmt, thats ovulation
Reply 5
It's easing off now - but there was a stage where anything would make me burst into tears.
I think I may have posted the story on TSR before (Ooops) but there was a time that I cried because an ambulance went past, and all the traffic moved out of the way for it, including the bus I was on.
Something about it being amazing how everyone pulled together, and how brave emergency services people are?

I started howling and the people on the bus thought I was a right loon :rolleyes:
Reply 6
Ridiculous sugar cravings, unfortunately.
Being really mean and irrational towards the boyfriend - but noone else.

I don't know why he puts up with it.
Reply 8
emilyyy
It's easing off now - but there was a stage where anything would make me burst into tears.
I think I may have posted the story on TSR before (Ooops) but there was a time that I cried because an ambulance went past, and all the traffic moved out of the way for it, including the bus I was on.
Something about it being amazing how everyone pulled together, and how brave emergency services people are?

I started howling and the people on the bus thought I was a right loon :rolleyes:


OMG, i had a similar experience the other day where a police car had to go past...
Feeling fat, and terrible psychotic mood swings, pretty much.
Girls blame too much crap on "PMT" or try and use the so called condition to their advantage.
Reply 11
I don't really turn into a horrible person or anything, I just get really weepy. I can feel it coming on and suddenly EVERYTHING seems like a reason to cry so my latest remedy is to just go to sleep for a bit instead :smile:

That's stage 1!

Stage 2 brings the pain and nauseous feelings, but I fight back with mefenemic acid, stage 2 also has a fair few weepy feelings.

Stage 3 and they both tail off. :smile:
Reply 12
I feel sorry for the people around me when I have PMT, because I go psycho, and start to throw things. :frown:
Reply 13
I feel really fat, then feel really motivated to do something, then i get the crying stage and usually get angry with my boyfriend, then I get paranoid that he doesn't like me anymore, then I return to normal for 3 weeks before the next episode.
Reply 14
explosive
Girls blame too much crap on "PMT" or try and use the so called condition to their advantage.


See, if you could just experience it once. Just know what it feels like to have the lining of your uterus tear itself to pieces, triggered by hormone levels, and leak out through you via a series of uncontrollable muscular spasms. Men might be more considerate then.. just once...
suek
See, if you could just experience it once. Just know what it feels like to have the lining of your uterus tear itself to pieces, triggered by hormone levels, and leak out through you via a series of uncontrollable muscular spasms. Men might be more considerate then.. just once...

Only problem with your point is that they're a woman:wink:
Not everyone has PMT though -or not to a huge degree. It's like my friend gets no period pain wahtsoever, and can't understnad how i can be in such agony *shrugs*
Reply 16
I don't have any interesting PMT symptoms, just the usual run-of-the-mill sucky ones! Feel a lot fatter, my skin gets greasier and spottier, and I feel miserable, really emotional and highly-strung. I don't know if that's just placebo though, because I'm normally a bit of a miserable cow, but when I end up having massive strops at the drop of a hat and bursting into tears for no reason it occurs to me that it's that time of the month, it does seem to get worse!

A fair bit of the miserableness we all get has got to be from the actual pain and discomfort of it all rather than the hormones that we're always being told make women 'hysterical'! It's like, yeah, you try having agonising stomach cramps and your womb lining flooding out of you for a week and then tell me that you don't feel a bit grumpy!
I dont suffer from it.

Dont get any of the horrible symptoms either like the cramps and bloating. Got off lightly there.
Reply 18
louisedotcom
I dont suffer from it.

Dont get any of the horrible symptoms either like the cramps and bloating. Got off lightly there.


:mad: lol
Well, it starts anywhere between two and seven days before I actually come on, when I get a bit more frazzled and the cramps start (these are blindingly awful :frown:)

The couple of days before, I tend to get the WORST hot flushes. Seriously, I can be lying there in my underwear on the floor, both windows and my bedroom door thrown open, and still be fractious and uncomfortably sticky.

I called my 14 year old brother a ****ing **** after he stole the last set of minstrels from my 'period chocolate box' :redface: Seriously, it's an old biscuit tin full of goodies meant for menstruating Kathryn only :biggrin:

I get very snarky in general actually, so really, no one should be my friend for a week or so of the month :redface: