Hi, I’ve suffered with it too all my life. Now I’m in Peri menopause, it feels like PMDD on steroids. I’m going to start taking HRT, as I’m struggling to self care as it feels like I disappear during this point. But back in the day, acupuncture and Chinese medicine helped me a lot. What do you do for self care during this time?

Now I just tell everyone to give me space and I know that I won’t be functioning at all for a few days. It’s horrible & scary though as I don’t like feeling this out of control of my own body. I also ask my husband to help more with the kids and stuff that needs doing and ask him to look after me with hot water bottles etc. how about you?

Yes, I’ve suffered with that all my life, since a teenager. It feels that I lose 2 weeks a month to cramp pain, depression, anxiety & general horribleness. I can’t drive the first 2 days and I usually had to take a day off work. I don’t feel like myself, I’m crazy sensitive, crying, falling out with people etc. just blackness that I feel will never lift. Then after day 4 or 5, I’m me again & wonder what hit me! The only thing that really helped for me was regular acupuncture specifically for this. My periods came like clockwork, literally to the hour of the day, I only had a few days of light PMS, and in general all the symptoms became a lot less. The symptoms were still there but more manageable and much, much less intense and bleak. In hind sight, I shouldn’t have stopped acupuncture!