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23 May 2010, 7:48 am

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PMS seems to be a different animal entirely for me than it appears to be for NT women. I have full blown tantrums almost every month no matter how hard I try to control myself and over the most insignificant things too. Sometimes, I get so obsessed with identifying the source of my rage that I turn on my husband in an unbecoming way that hurts both of us. I am disturbed and disappointed by my behavior to say the least. Sometimes, if I go for a run every day for a week before my period, I can avoid the inevitable, but it's hard to find time to run that much. Does anyone else feel that PMS is a different set of issues for women with AS than for NT women?


Yep. I get really emotional, either i cry all the time or get really mad/happy/ extreme emotions, I can't sleep or I sleep extremely heavily, I either lose my appetite or it goes through the roof, I get all these impulses (e.g. I go and get my ears pierced again or decide i want to take up some course)...and yeah I go all over the place. Also my hair and skin greases up really bad when i get my period, I get very severe cramps and my back aches, I get headaches, my breasts really hurt, going to the toilet and walking is painful, and I'm generally grumpy...



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23 May 2010, 9:33 am

Cad wrote:
spdjeanne wrote:
PMS seems to be a different animal entirely for me than it appears to be for NT women. I have full blown tantrums almost every month no matter how hard I try to control myself and over the most insignificant things too. Sometimes, I get so obsessed with identifying the source of my rage that I turn on my husband in an unbecoming way that hurts both of us. I am disturbed and disappointed by my behavior to say the least. Sometimes, if I go for a run every day for a week before my period, I can avoid the inevitable, but it's hard to find time to run that much. Does anyone else feel that PMS is a different set of issues for women with AS than for NT women?


Yep. I get really emotional, either i cry all the time or get really mad/happy/ extreme emotions, I can't sleep or I sleep extremely heavily, I either lose my appetite or it goes through the roof, I get all these impulses (e.g. I go and get my ears pierced again or decide i want to take up some course)...and yeah I go all over the place. Also my hair and skin greases up really bad when i get my period, I get very severe cramps and my back aches, I get headaches, my breasts really hurt, going to the toilet and walking is painful, and I'm generally grumpy...


Yours are somewhat harmless, lol..

Mine tend towards things like pulling my breasts off by simply wrenching, so I can be a 'person' and not a 'baby machine' any more.

Irrational, I know.


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23 May 2010, 8:58 pm

My hormones have always made me more "mean" too. When I have PMS any tiny little thing will set me off. Before I was diagnosed AS they told me I had that PMS psychotic syndrome...or whatever its called :lol: .
I used to bleed really heavily to the point where I had to wear a diaper. Before having my fourth child I was told I have, basically, an overactive uterine lining. They told me that I was better off pregnant because it gave everything a chance to rest. So I had my fourth and fifth, (final child). As soon as my periods came back full force I had the lining to my uterus burned out...I still have the hormones but not the insane bleeding or horrific pain. Had I done nothing eventually my lining would grow into my uterus and rupture so I would have had to have an emergency hysterectomy. The burning was much easier. I went to sleep and woke up with a few minor cramps and went home.
So, like I said, no period but still hormonal. I also have a twisted pelvis and had surgery for a ruptured disk in September. I am in constant pain, plus I have to move to France in August, so all this together make me very ultra sensitive. I was telling my psychiatrist that even someone closing a door shoots through my arms and legs like my nerves are screaming. I am sound sensitive but not normally to that extent.



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24 May 2010, 6:15 am

mechanicalgirl39 wrote:
Cad wrote:
spdjeanne wrote:
PMS seems to be a different animal entirely for me than it appears to be for NT women. I have full blown tantrums almost every month no matter how hard I try to control myself and over the most insignificant things too. Sometimes, I get so obsessed with identifying the source of my rage that I turn on my husband in an unbecoming way that hurts both of us. I am disturbed and disappointed by my behavior to say the least. Sometimes, if I go for a run every day for a week before my period, I can avoid the inevitable, but it's hard to find time to run that much. Does anyone else feel that PMS is a different set of issues for women with AS than for NT women?


Yep. I get really emotional, either i cry all the time or get really mad/happy/ extreme emotions, I can't sleep or I sleep extremely heavily, I either lose my appetite or it goes through the roof, I get all these impulses (e.g. I go and get my ears pierced again or decide i want to take up some course)...and yeah I go all over the place. Also my hair and skin greases up really bad when i get my period, I get very severe cramps and my back aches, I get headaches, my breasts really hurt, going to the toilet and walking is painful, and I'm generally grumpy...


Yours are somewhat harmless, lol..

Mine tend towards things like pulling my breasts off by simply wrenching, so I can be a 'person' and not a 'baby machine' any more.

Irrational, I know.


ha ha well there are only so many piercings i can get or new things i can take up. Wrenching your breasts off? I can't say I know how you feel, but I wished I felt like a person rather than a baby machine sometimes too.