just a rant

[char.livejournal.com]

period will start a week from today.
i've already been having mood swings, which i don't get every month, but when i do they're pretty bad. the smallest things will make me cry.
and i'm spotting now.
and i was fighting a migraine this weekend, but it doesn't feel completely gone yet.
i have a feeling the next 2 weeks are going to be bad.
oh, not to mention this cycle has decided to give me a bad acne breakout.
at least i don't have the tender breasts yet. they'll come, but i hae a day or two at least to prepare.
i hate pms.

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[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

After an unfriendly peuberty, my skin was JUST starting to be consistently nice (for several months at a time) and now that I'm on b/c I've been getting random breakouts again.

And I'm not talkin' a few blemishes on my chin or whatever, I got a freakin zit IN MY NOSE like friday and this morning with a q-tip I painfully discovered another one just inside my ear (!?)in addition to the ones scattered about my left cheek. I'm so not thrilled about this. I thought birth control was supposed to make that stuff better.

Anyhoo, get some rest and treat yourself to a nice hot bath.

[char.livejournal.com]

ha. my left cheek is the bad one right now, too. some of that is due to sleep with my boyfriend. when we cuddle, i rest my left cheek on his shoulder.
bc never did much for my acne. didn't help my sister's at all either.
i've gotten zits in my ear before, too. it really sucks.
i have to do some laundry tonight. maybe if i have time i can get a bath in.

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

I think it must have something to do with the way I sleep. I usually sleep better on my left side, and I always rest my face on my hand. Maybe I should wash my hands like 5 times before bed.

I think I've got a real low iron level in my body or something, because I'm tired ALL OF THE TIME to the point where I wonder how I'm going to make it through the week when it's only monday... I think the rapid blood loss during my period makes the situation 10 times worse, so if I can manage to relax a little that week it's the only way I don't totally lose it. And you know that lack of sleep is just going to make you sick & sick + pms = whooooah good luck.

[char.livejournal.com]

ya know, my mom started having super heavy blood flows and actually was having low iron levels from it.
try taking iron supplements. also eat red meat. not tons of it, not like those carbo-nuts, but some. fresh spinach is important if you do red meat, too. it helps your body to take the important stuff from the meat.

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

I never eat right...gotta love being a girl on the go.

I need to start taking more suppliments and maybe it'll make me feel better!

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Menstrual Hut, I've just gone through two weeks of total madness and rage, (contained as much as possible), vulnerability, sadness, doom, sweating in strange zones (which is a brand new syptom - had it tested, not the menopause yet). I feel all right now, but I now this end of cycle euphoria will not last long.

Why do major categorical words for this process always begin with men - ?

Womanpause, womanstruation. Although at the moment I seem to be regarding the xxx-pause as the total xxx-end because, in England it seems to be regarded as a disease and not a process. As soon as a woman hits the xxx-pause they start dishing out replacement synthetic hormones, why not deal with the symptoms gently and let the process run through, instead of prolonging it? Woman in the narcissitic west has to remain for ever young and hide all her moods and bodily functions, when she gets older she is ignored and everything physical about her is treated as a problem/illness, not a process. In India old women are treated with great respect and in other Asian countries the predominance of soya provides a natural oestrogen, (have heard), why is this not adpoted here? Or, is it that the Glaxo Smith Klines of the world need us all to be 'ill' to make their profits.

I do water colours a lot when I start pre-xxxstruating, but they still don't stop the shouting.

Paulina

[char.livejournal.com]

um, i think this was supposed to be a post, not a comment.