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[CLKD]

My problems were hormonal.  NAPS know a lot more than anyone on here!  I was personally advised that when I got out of bed in the night that I must eat a biscuit or sandwich to keep sugar levels even. Otherwise I was very ill.

Good Luck GRL

[Charliegirl@]

Sorry what is NAPS?

[CLKD]

Hi! National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome - Dr Dalton did lots of research considering how hormones affect women and why we gets dips etc. throughout the month.  Some ladies are driven to murder at 'certain' times of the month and she was able to prepare evidence that for the remainder of the month, these women were normal.  That was in the mid-1980s. 

I know that I had rages at certain times of the month  ........... so advice was given to eat regularly to stop those highs and lows which can cause anxiety, sudden feelings of hunger, anger.

[GypsyRoseLee]

Back in my teens and twenties you could guarantee I would pick a fight, at the same time of the month, with my boyfriend at the time. Some months were worse than others, but in the week before my period I would be irritable, tense and often a bit paranoid. At times it felt like I was going to burst into smithereens. Yet for the rest of the month I would be easy going and laid back. Looking back, I don't think taking the BCP helped at all, now I know I am progesterone intolerant, especially to synthetic progesterone.

Infact, when I started at university I changed my brand of BCP and within 3 weeks felt incredibly low and despondent, to the point of feeling quite desperate. It was horrible. I just felt totally disconnected from everything and everything seemed so negative.

Then I'd occasionally get a run of several days when I felt totally normal again. Looking back it was cyclical. ADs weren't nearly so common back then so I just suffered through it. But I do vaguely remember the depression quickly lifting when I came off that brand of BCP (wish I could remember which brand it was).

[CLKD]

We certainly suffered even then  >sigh< but I put up with it all. 

[GypsyRoseLee]

I will certainly ask my daughter to think very long and hard before trying the BCP in the future.

[CLKD]

The first Pill made me sick so Mum sent me to the GP    oh it was such a strange feeling under my ribs.
The next 1 I took for 11 years.  The only way to ease those dreadful pains.  As well as the fact that I didn't want children.  Then I was sterilised. 

[dangermouse]

I wonder if the anger thing is linked to the liver? I was watching a programme about how liver disease causes anger issues and maybe when our hormones all plummet and hit the liver, it causes the anger at PMT time? The liver also holds the pill for 24 hours whilst it metabolises.

Milk thistle could help but would empty any oral meds (and some transdermals as think that enters too during the second phase?) too soon.

It would explain alcohol aggression too!

[CLKD]

Don't know other than the liver is the only organ that can regenerate itself  .  In general, the body heals itself.  It's a superb system, when it works.  I can't tolerate pain though