From An Entry of Mine.....

[minniedent.livejournal.com]

Again I say, girls are weird.

I said I didn't believe in PMS, mainly 'cause most women will use it as an excuse to get what they want. The "I can be a bitch today because my fallopian tubes are beating up on my uterus," sort of stuff.

But I must admit that I'm more sensitive to a lot of things around that time of the month. Some comment David or Robert might make that wouldn't bother me normally might upset me. I don't know. I don't pay attention to my moods, I just experience them. It's not something I keep track of. There are indeed hormonal changes that go on throughout the entire cycle, so I guess there's no reason for me to believe that some of this stuff isn't for real.

What I do sometimes, when "my friend" finally arrives, is examine my actions and behavior of the week before. Could my behavior have been affected by this? I believe so.

Comments

[urania.livejournal.com]

hate to be argumentative, but... just cause people use/abuse something as an excuse doesn't mean it doesn't exist in the first place...

and, frankly, there's plenty of clinical evidence that hormone swings 1. happen, and 2. can in some people trigger mood swings....they do for me, although i'm far more likely to be moody and weepy than bitchy :)

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[minniedent.livejournal.com]

I admitted that there was some truth to it.

[urania.livejournal.com]

sorry, didn't mean to sound lecturing (in hindsight i realized i did; i really didn't mean it that way)... i guess if you don't have other physical symptoms to link it to, it's harder to pin down. i've always had pretty bad cramps and other 'emotional' symptoms, and it always has bugged me that even woman doctors i went to would sometimes do the "it's all in your head" routine....

that said, i also really am annoyed at people who overuse it as an excuse. if anything, i try to be more careful what i say when i'm PMSing (though i fail, too often) and i rarely use cramps as an excuse to miss stuff... i take the medicine and deal. but i know there are people with worse cases than i have... i don't envy them.

[minniedent.livejournal.com]

sorry, didn't mean to sound lecturing (in hindsight i realized i did; i really didn't mean it that way)...

Gah, it's okay. :) I think I took it the wrong way. See, this is the shtuff I'm talking about! ;)

i guess if you don't have other physical symptoms to link it to, it's harder to pin down.

I've always had bad cramps as well, so I do have more physical symptoms. It just seemed odd that this should affect me mentally and emotionally as well. But I'm moving away from that idea.

that said, i also really am annoyed at people who overuse it as an excuse.

Yup.

and i rarely use cramps as an excuse to miss stuff... i take the medicine and deal.

Coolies. :)

but i know there are people with worse cases than i have... i don't envy them.

Nor do I.

[minniedent.livejournal.com]

Wow. I didn't think it could be this disrupting.

[minniedent.livejournal.com]

er, disruptive.

That's gonna bug me for the rest of the day.

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a weird thing. Some people get it, some people don't. I didn't believe in the whole cramps/PMS thing either 'til I got to college and saw a lot of women who were really knocked out by it, and obviously not faking it. And without the cramps and the really obvious mood swings, the emotional changes are much more subtle and harder to pin down. It took me years to notice that if a crisis happens a few days before my period, I respond to it with somewhat less emotional stability than at other times of the month--I guess that's as close as I get to PMS, except for some free-floating angst that shows up every few years, and seems to be linked to the onset of my period.

[minniedent.livejournal.com]

I didn't believe in the whole cramps/PMS thing either 'til I got to college and saw a lot of women who were really knocked out by it, and obviously not faking it.

Oh, cramps I've always had. No way to fake those. :)

...the emotional changes are much more subtle and harder to pin down. It took me years to notice that if a crisis happens a few days before my period, I respond to it with somewhat less emotional stability than at other times of the month--I guess that's as close as I get to PMS, except for some free-floating angst that shows up every few years, and seems to be linked to the onset of my period.

Same here. I think the change in me is so subtle, I can't differentiate sometimes between my behavior during this time and what I would do on any other day. It takes a great deal of self-awareness....

[rabychan.livejournal.com]

I never really get mean. I more or less just get depressed..But I'm usually mopey anyways. One time, I pretty much broke down crying because I couldn't open a bag of whoppers....Yeh..it was pretty pathetic. :B...
I don't really think women should blame their their actions on PMS for those 3 days though..I mean..I know it blows..but there's no point in taking it out on everyone else. :\ I try not to, at least.