Posted by Tina Lynne on March 18, 2001, at 14:00:03
In reply to Re: I'm scared, posted by meand him on March 12, 2001, at 15:33:42
I'm scared too. I was only recently diagnosed with pmdd. Although I have had it for years, I just scared off the wonderful guy I was dating because of PMDD. He RAN with his tail between his legs and will not even speak to me. This prompted a visit ot the Dr.
PMDD is a horrible hell to live in. As many as 10 days before my period I would become really bitchy, then for the few days before my period, I would be totally emotionally unmanagable. My skin would crawl and I had terrible restless sleeps. I could have as many 4 mood swings per sentance almost always resulting in tears.
Sometimes I would cry out loud for it to stop and always knew that within two days of my period I would be "normal" again. It was like Aunt Ruby was a tornado and I would have to look back at the messes I (she) made and have a ton of damage control to do once it was over...
Doctor has now put me onto oral contraceptives and told me to change my diet. My diet is very high in protein. I am very active including weight training and need the proteins to rebuild muscle. The Dr told me that diary, red meats, anything high protein, coffee and chocolate all seem to antagonize the sypmtoms. I can not find any medical information to support this hypothesis and wondered if anyone else out there knows about high protien and PMDD.
I sure hope the pill is going to work - I don't want to lose any more friends - or myself!! to PMDD.
Thanks
poster:Tina Lynne
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