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Hormones
So I was taken off the pill (doctor's recommendation) in order to see if it decreased some of the migraine symptoms I'd been having.
But since then, I have been snarlingly hormonal. I mean, I'm a stress bunny at the best of times, but these last few weeks I have been frequently twitching and periodically wanting to rip people's limbs off and beat them with it. As this does on occasion spill over onto my family, it's not a tenable situation.
Right now, after a 2.5 hour scream fest with the toddler screaming and me almost putting my head through a wall in fustration, he is on his 3rd Blues Clues episode because it is the only thing that makes him STFU and it's this or eat him. I'm at a similar spot with the other two kids as well.
What sayest the hive mind? Have you similar stories? I'm in my mid 30's so it's a little early for menopause. Will things settle out in a couple of months or are there alternatives anyone can suggest?
But since then, I have been snarlingly hormonal. I mean, I'm a stress bunny at the best of times, but these last few weeks I have been frequently twitching and periodically wanting to rip people's limbs off and beat them with it. As this does on occasion spill over onto my family, it's not a tenable situation.
Right now, after a 2.5 hour scream fest with the toddler screaming and me almost putting my head through a wall in fustration, he is on his 3rd Blues Clues episode because it is the only thing that makes him STFU and it's this or eat him. I'm at a similar spot with the other two kids as well.
What sayest the hive mind? Have you similar stories? I'm in my mid 30's so it's a little early for menopause. Will things settle out in a couple of months or are there alternatives anyone can suggest?
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Permalink Reply by Annaevilred on -
start drinking, alot.
call the dr, let him know about the stress/mood swings/cannot freaking take it anymore!!! Maybe go onto some happy pills?
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Permalink Reply by bap2 on
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I was taken off the combined pill because I was having migraine auras, which apparently if you are on an estrogen containing BCP means you have a slightly higher risk of stroking out. Anyways, I experienced the same things you did: lots of bloating, GI issues, crazy mood swings, temperature control issues, etc. I believe it took about 3-4 months to regulate. I believe it was my pituitary and such trying to reboot my body into making it's own hormones.
I'd like to say it mostly went away, but I still have issues with PMS/mood swings twice a month, but certainly not to the CRAZYKILL it was when I first stopped BCP. My doctor said if it becomes an issue, he'd like to try the mini-pill. Progesterone should have no impact on migraines, and he even suggested Mirena after I am done childbearing. He said there are many options now to make me and "the people I live with more comfortable." Hah!
I guess you could get pregnant again and make the cycles disappear:).
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Permalink Reply by Bigkrygowski on -
Sorry, I am no help (Bunny will confirm) but I can't get this out of my head after reading this.
The California Cheeseburger
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Permalink Reply by Daria on -
I went off the pill, because post-pregnancy, the pill killed my sex drive. It doesn't sound like my mood swings were quite as severe, but for awhile, I would start a crazy-ass argument with my husband about 3 days before my period started. And now that I think about it, the mood swings haven't been present nor have the crazy-ass arguments. So, I would say that it took about 3-4 months as well.
But, I wouldn't let my anecdotal story substitute for a call to the doctor!
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Permalink Reply by Gumbo Momma on -
Have you ever read the book "What Your Doctor May Not tell you about Pre-Menopause?" It was required reading for a pscyh class I took in college and there is a follow up book about Menopause too. Anyway, it has a lot of good info about mood swings and hormones and such during the Pre-Menopause ages. One of the things they reccomend to help balance out hormones, is to use a natural progesterone cream. NOT the synthetic progestin, but actual progesterone. Here you can find a small tub of it at most pharmacies or stores with pharamacies for around $4-5. You are just supposed to rub a tiny bit into your palms or elbow when you reach the highest stress point in your cycle. After going off BC that I was put on after NB was born, I had HUGE hormonal shifts and mood swings where I felt completely out of control of my emotions and temper. I found that using the cream during the week before my actual period helped LOADS for easing the massive mood swings. Just a suggestion, but it couldn't hurt to look into it and maybe discuss it with your doctor. I don't know if Dr.'s in Canada are more open minded about natural treatments than some of the docs here who tend to scoff at such things.
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Permalink Reply by mcglory13 on -
I'm not allowed on the pill for migraine reasons. I have the Mirena coil. It seems great to me, and I really enjoy rarely having my period and only having it for a short time when I do get it. I also used to get killer cramps, and they're pretty much gone. I don't know if it helps for moods or not.
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Permalink Reply by Daria on
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Is this an ok place to add how much I love the Mirena commercials? Yeah, there's some occasional sexism in the "guy won't get a vasectomy" part, but overall, they just put forth such a positive attitude about birth control that I can't help but like them. I think I also like them because they emphasize the major purpose of birth control-not getting pregnant. So many other commercials talk around the issue or don't talk about it at all. So hurray for birth control that acknowledges what it is!
Ok, you can think I'm crazy. But I've been wanting to tell someone about my feelings on that topic for awhile that I thought I would volunteer it here!
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Permalink Reply by Kiwi on -
I too have the Mirena. I love it more than unicorns love pixie dust.
In the past 16 months since getting mine I've had 3 light periods. Where as before I had terrible cramping and bled like a stuck pig.
mcglory13 said:I'm not allowed on the pill for migraine reasons. I have the Mirena coil. It seems great to me, and I really enjoy rarely having my period and only having it for a short time when I do get it. I also used to get killer cramps, and they're pretty much gone. I don't know if it helps for moods or not.
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Permalink Reply by Herasmus B. Dragon on
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Mirena here, too. I've needed exactly two pads since Ebay was born. I've not had any hormonal side effects. I can't take the Pill.
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Permalink Reply by Floor Pie on -
Oh, honey. Yes, I've been there. I went off the pill at age 32 and it was brutal! I'd been getting migraines during my period pretty much the whole time I was on the pill. When I went off, the period migraine just lasted and lasted. And the mood swings were a terrifying thing to behold.
Eventually things sorted themselves out, but I don't remember how long it took. I'm going to guess about two months, maybe less. Once I got pregnant, and the whole time I was breastfeeding, the menstrual migraines disappeared. But once I started weaning my second baby, they started up again.
Now I use the Paragard IUD for birth control and I still get monthly mood dips around ovulation and monthly migraines during my period. It sucks, but it's not nearly as dramatic as it was during those first pill-withdrawal weeks. At least the mood swings/migraines are predictable and pretty easily managed.
Hang in there. It will get better.
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Permalink Reply by ks on -
My sister went off the pill because of migraines last year and she says it was the best thing she ever did. I don't remember how long she said it took for things to settle down, but now she (and her husband) says that her moods are much more even than they ever were when she was on it.
But I had to have my Mirena out and go back on the pill.
Apparently I'm some kind of outlier, according to my doc, because in the 12 months that I had the Mirena, I had periods that were unreal. I had a period that lasted almost 6 months. The doc gave me estrogen pills to make it stop, which I took daily and slowed it down to spotting. And if I missed a day, then the period came back. After that, I had the monthly periods like I used to have as a teenager--GI issues, horrible cramps, and bleeding for 10-12 days at a time. It was unpleasant and I had it out in May. I was very sad about this, because I had really, really wanted the Mirena. Everybody I know who has it loves it.
Now I'm back on the pill, things are back to relatively acceptable levels--I'm not pregnant and I barely get a period.
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Permalink Reply by Andromeda on -
That's how i was on the Paraguard. i was having HEAVY HEAVY bleeding for 2+weeks. i was also dealing with anemia and the paraguard just made it so bad that my doctor said if we couldn't get the anemia under control i would have to start having blood transfusions. i would love to try the mirena but i think i'll wait a year or so before getting another IUD. oh, and with my hypothyroidism periods naturally tend to be heavier so i was getting it from all sides.
when my Doc took out the paraguard she put me on Yasmin which i'm not so sure about. she said it was only for maybe 4 months or so just to get the periods under control. i took myself off it this last month. i know there are risks with any hormonal birth control, but the yaz/yasmin lawsuit ads kinda freak me out. it's not like i'm having sex anyway, so needing it for birth control is a non-issue.
ks said:Apparently I'm some kind of outlier, according to my doc, because in the 12 months that I had the Mirena, I had periods that were unreal. I had a period that lasted almost 6 months. The doc gave me estrogen pills to make it stop, which I took daily and slowed it down to spotting. And if I missed a day, then the period came back. After that, I had the monthly periods like I used to have as a teenager--GI issues, horrible cramps, and bleeding for 10-12 days at a time. It was unpleasant and I had it out in May. I was very sad about this, because I had really, really wanted the Mirena. Everybody I know who has it loves it.
Now I'm back on the pill, things are back to relatively acceptable levels--I'm not pregnant and I barely get a period.
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