Free to good home: One cranky uterus

[caelum.livejournal.com]

I'm so eternally tired of these cramps. I don't know what's worse: the monster cramps or the urges to scream and cry at the drop of a hat. I wanted to hit things on several occasions last night at work (I'm a night-shifter) and I'm not a normally violent person.

Kava kava helps my mood some, chamomile tea is better (double strong, with a shot of brandy when I can afford it) when I can stay home, and valerian capsules are good before bed. Keeping myself dosed up with ibuprofen (and building a tolerance, yuck!) during my waking hours. Has anyone had any luck with the herb feverfew? It's supposed to be a decent painkiller. Are there any other natural remedies I can try, ones that don't put me to sleep?

On a lighter note, how can I get my boyfriend to quit calling it my "little angry houseguest?" I call it my cycle or my menses. I don't pussyfoot around the subject, neither should he.

Waiting...

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

Due to enter the Hut this weekend, so I'm just waiting for that. A tad nervous, as the past few months I've noticed a change in my flow. I usually get sore breasts, sickness, headaches and aching back in the week running up to the start of my flow, and then during it I have a sore back and tender breasts.

Recently, though, I've only been experiencing all this in the first 3-4 days of my flow itself, and it's really been knocking me for six. I don't want to be sick in bed again this weekend :(

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[erin4u.livejournal.com]

anybody here have PMDD??

I think i do. My emotional wreck this last week almost ruined my relationship with my boyfriend. It definately took a toll. I get emotional every month but sometimes, like this time, it gets sooo bad, that every time i feel any emotion(i.e. happy, sad, mad, whatever I cry my eyes out. I feel like i should be on prozac once a month.
so, how do i know if i'm that bad, and how do i get helped?

SO TIRED of Menstruating...

[ex-laecheln.livejournal.com]

Okay so around July of last summer, my periods took this huge turn and decided to turn evil on me.

My periods have always been very regular, I have had cramps before, but not very badly. For the most part, my periods came every 29 days, lasted 3-4 days, and that was that. But no, not since July. Since July I've gotten my period EVERY two weeks. It is miserable. And the length of time they have lasted is continually increasing, and now my periods last almost 6-7 days now! They are so heavy and I can see like clotty blood coming out and I have cramps that are so debilitating, that I can hardly walk or move for a day before and at least two days after my period starts.

Yes, I have been to OBGYN, and they say it's "normal" and to come back if it continues. A month later (and two periods later!) I go back to the obgyn, and she says that I have to go on birth control. I don't agree with taking birth control morally, but I asked her if anything else could resolve this, and she said this would be the best thing.

So I gave in, took the birth control (Brevicon) and for the first two weeks of being on that pill (started the friday after my last period) I was absolutely miserable, feeling sick to my stomach all the time, completely nauscious, and hardly able to eat. These side effects have now subsided, luckily. But yesterday I got my period AGAIN. Back to the painful cramps, horribly evil mood swings, and heavy periods.

I cant have this toll on my life! Why isnt the birth control working?

I swear, I think I deserve like a year off or something from my period after having it every two weeks since July! Wah! (To be precise, I have 7-9 days with no period, and then 6-7 days with my period).

How long does it take for the birth control to work? Is there anything else I can do? besides cuddle up in bed with a bottle of midol (one after another after another until I fall asleep)?

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP.