No, I've never had PMS or any other emotional issues with my period. I do, on the other hand, have serious physical stuff - bleeding like a stuck pig (I have to wear plastic pants) for seven days, occasionally two periods a month, cramps of various intensities, sweating, loss of energy and generally feeling very crappy. Post period I get very weak and prone to illness. But yeah, no emotional stuff. Never have and that hasn't changed.
My mother, on the other hand, never had any physical stuff, could use a cotton ball for the small amount of bleeding she'd get, yet she went completely and utterly insane regularly. And after she got to her mid 40s (she didn't have menopause until she was in her 50s) she went so fucking nuts she hospitalised my father twice, and I was sent to another country to get away from her. I was 6, at the time, late baby.
So yeah, early peri pause looniness seems pretty common. Actually, I think my sister got a mix of both... bled solidly for five years AND went nuts. Poor woman.
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Date: 2006-06-01 02:22 pm (UTC)I do, on the other hand, have serious physical stuff - bleeding like a stuck pig (I have to wear plastic pants) for seven days, occasionally two periods a month, cramps of various intensities, sweating, loss of energy and generally feeling very crappy. Post period I get very weak and prone to illness. But yeah, no emotional stuff. Never have and that hasn't changed.
My mother, on the other hand, never had any physical stuff, could use a cotton ball for the small amount of bleeding she'd get, yet she went completely and utterly insane regularly. And after she got to her mid 40s (she didn't have menopause until she was in her 50s) she went so fucking nuts she hospitalised my father twice, and I was sent to another country to get away from her. I was 6, at the time, late baby.
So yeah, early peri pause looniness seems pretty common. Actually, I think my sister got a mix of both... bled solidly for five years AND went nuts. Poor woman.