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PMDD-Pre Menstral Dysphroric Disorder

I finally found some peace. Things are better now. Not all the way, but getting better.


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^^ Good to hear you're feeling a bit better hun <3

addictivepersona said:
Not to derail the thread or anything, but how is it you get tested for PMDD?... May have to add this to the list of things I need to be tested for once I get health insurance again... Seems that a few times a month I get terrible mood swings that come from nothing. Most of the time it seems like it's from not eating/low blood sugar, but sometimes it just comes from absolutely nowhere.
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Hey hun, that's not derailing the thread at all!
PMDD is diagnosed just by piecing together all your symptoms and seeing if it matches up with the disorder. There's no test for it, as such. It's just a matter of discussing it with your doctor. Have a good read up on all the symptoms etc and if you think that it's something which affects you please discuss it with a doctor when you get your health insurance sorted out.

In the meantime you can always discuss your possible symptoms right here <3
 
does anyone know anything about women diagnosed with PMDD being more likely to also have, or develop Axis I disorders?

I've been struggling with PMDD for about 7 years now, and while my symptoms have been stabilized thanks to Yasmin, I've recently been having 'episodes' and it has been suggested that I undergo a diagnostic test for borderline personality disorder.
does anyone else have a similar situation?

the idea that i could have two simultaneous emotional disorders is stressing me out and I've up until now totally avoided going in for a diagnostic evaluation.
 
Bump!

Figured I'd give this a bump as there's some pretty useful information contained in this thread.

How's everybody combating their monthly issues? I've started, when things really start to tick me off, attempting to count to five before I react. Easier said than done.
 
I have made good progress since I posted in Jan '10. I saw a good psychiatrist, and a good psychologist, and was on strong meds for six months or so. I increased my healthy activities (yoga) and decreased my negative eating habits. I spent at least half the year (off a month on a month)in Nor Cali at my parents house.

In retrospect, I am very glad I decided to spend so much time with my parents. I was profoundly comforted, just being with the two of them, the three of us taking it easy. I am so grounded compared to how I felt two years ago.

Thanks for bumping this. I'm in menopause now, and I have had a bit of hormone therapy during a rough patch but otherwise, I believe my mood swings have gotten weaker and weaker to where they don't move around too much anymore.

Damn. It's been two years. I went through some horrible, horrible shit. Confusion, anger, frustration, helplessness, hopelessness, terror, and suicidal depression.

I just kept going forward. No, I didn't go forward. Time passed. The sun would come up, then go down. Over and over and over. All I had to do was wait. I don't have a job. I can't find a job and I actually am starting to doubt I will be able to find work ever. But I know that the universe is in order, and the sun will go down tonight, and when it comes up, another day will have started.

If I stay in the present, and not dwell on the past, and not worry about the future, then I'm golden. Time may not be on my side anymore, but I am on Time's side. In some ways, that's better!
Thank you for
 
Is this still an active thread and where did you all go if not??

addictivepersona said:
Just bumping, that is all. :)
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I breifly read through much of this and read word for word some of the posts. In short-am so grateful to have found this here on B.L. especially, but apprehensive to see the last posting is a while ago.

I would love to know if this has been moved somewhere else or did this just stop? Would love to hear from any of you.
 
Ok I just wrote a BOOK-and it made me re-sign in so I coped and pasted all I'd written to notepad for now. It's better u wld hv thought I was really nuts w/all I wrote. Why I feel I hv to tell my life story for all to understand idk. I know I'm suffering from PMDD. Dr. agreed of course but not "documented" well-my records are lost out there in my last psych dr.s office group-that disappeared on me and I hvn't seen since. So it'sthere somewhere along w/ my other personal info. Right now? I'm waiting for this 2days late period that is NEVER late. I think I'm in menopause but hey I'm just crazy. Or it's the PMDD then. I've been psychotic since Sunday but really weds. I was due Fri.

Asthma real bad-stable right now, but this happens when it flares up this PMDD junk. I feel so isolated and scared and all is a mess. I just stay in-and I can't even go get cigs b/c I worry about driving as nuts as tht sounds. Tht's it for now. Idk who's here b/c I saw a post saying that this IS OPEN and that post is now gone. I'll wait I guess. Can't believe I found something well bluelight is where I like to go yet a little shaky tht not many posts at all recently. Hope some of you still around.
 
Hi there Child-. Yes, I've actually been pretty much all over B.L. since ?? Joined in Jan. I just don't see anyone interacting on here like when it first started huh? I mean, this is about PMDD? I do an awful lot of reading on here and 1nce in a while I'll throw in a comment. Trying to find some interacting on this topic. I am certain there are other forums on this topic, but for some reason, I'm comfortable over here in B.L. I actually didn't know it was about anything other than what I initially came over here for. Everytime I looked something up about my particular meds., I'd get the answer on B.L. so this is where I chose to make my home. Well I'll keep checking back to see if anything gets going here and thanks again!! :)
 
There appears to be a pattern to my "depressive bouts" lately...

Three or four days before my period, I become totally hopeless. This feeling may fade a little but remains relatively constant until a day or two into my period. Day one of my period usually includes lots of tears and generalized hopelessness and social anxiety, though the whole four or five days is pretty much consumed by paranoia, hopelessness, anxiety, irrational behavior, and just is not a happy time. There may be high times, but they are few and are short lived.

I don't want to go on birth control to 'fix this'. I'd rather not go on antidepressants, but if they are deemed necessary, I'm willing to give them another shot... How do I speak with my doctor (who knows virtually none of my past medical history as far as psych goes) about this? I am seeing a psychologist at the moment, but she is just that and cannot prescribe anything. And I see her next after my primary care (first week of Jan.) anyways.
 
THat's all part of your natural burden as a woman pre-menopause - you cannot "fix it", but you can find ways to alleviate your suffering.

PMDD? WHat a bunch of CRAP.

Treatment -

The primary goal of treatment is to reduce the patient's suffering and the disruption to her social relationships.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have emerged as first-line therapy.[22] Several randomized, placebo-controlled trials in women with PMDD have clearly demonstrated that the SSRIs have excellent efficacy and minimal side effects.[23][24] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved four SSRIs for the treatment of PMDD: Fluoxetine (available as generic or as Prozac or Sarafem), sertraline (Zoloft), paroxetine (Paxil) and escitalopram oxalate (Lexapro).
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drug pushing by inventing/exagerrating perfectly natural things.
FDA and the pharmaceutical industry in America are run by the same people to feed you unnecessary products.

Rockefeller would be proud.
 
This would probably help more people over in SLR or TDS.. simply due to higher traffic?

RoughJack..

Although I hate pharmaceutical companies etc, that doesn't mean their medication isn't wanted / needed.

SSRI's help thousand of people.

B1tO'RoughJack said:
THat's all part of your natural burden as a woman pre-menopause - you cannot "fix it", but you can find ways to alleviate your suffering.
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Which is what the medication is for.

What about people with schiophrenia, with CF, with asthma, with cancer.. should they all stop takings their meds, too?
 
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^ good plan...obviously you run with the herd too, by being ignorant of the fact that every substance on the earth is a medicine and a poison.

The process of homeopathy has worked for people for thousands of years, since yogi alchemists in India and Tibet developed "Bhasmas" or rasayana therapy - petro-chemically produced pharmaceuticals are a last resort, due to the amount of side effects, which often outweigh the positives.
 
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;)Homeopathy.. placebo in a sugar pill..

That is all homepathy medicine is.. sugar.. in a pill..

People take in grammes of it a day in foods, etc.. That should magically cure them?

No. Homeopathy is bullshit and calling people ignorant is ignorant.

B1tO'RoughJack said:
The process of homeopathy has worked for people for thousands of years, since yogi alchemists in India and Tibet developed "Bhasmas" or rasayana therapy - petro-chemically produced pharmaceuticals are a last resort, due to the amount of side effects, which often outweigh the positives.
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The reason homeopathy doesn't have any side affects is because it doesn't have an affect.. apart from worsening health (due to the illness that could be being treated)..
 
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n3ophy7e said:
Me too hun. The main thing I absolutely HATE about PMDD is that no matter how hard I try to prepare for it, no matter how much I try to remember that it's coming soon and try to not be crazy, it all goes out the window when I'm actually having an episode. I completely forget that I have PMDD and I'm just a depressed, angry, bitchy, irritable, suicidal mess and I can't figure out why it's happening.

Then the sun comes out in my mind again and I suddenly remember "Oh that's right, that was just my PMDD" 8)
Fucking LAME.
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Have you ever tried writing down something like, "YOU HAVE PMDD, STOP ACTING CRAZY," or anything similar? Cause you say that it happens the same day every month, but you forget during the time it is happening, so maybe when you wake up the day you're having an episode and you look at said sign on your wall/bathroom/wherever, you'll remember :)
 
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