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Re: PMS
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Sat Jan 6 20:53:05 2007
Have you considered 5HTP? If you try it make sure you get pure,
standardized 5HTP. It's a tryphtophan precuser to seritonin, so it's a
quick way to up your seritonin levels when you need it. There's a book
about it by Murray.
Jenn
At Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Debbie wrote:
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>As well as the delights that Endo can throw at us, it's not enough
>obviously, as many women with Endo also have horrendous PMS, now also
>described (very aptly) as PMDD. I'm just wondering how many of you
>track this monster each month, and how badly it affects you. For me
>it's quite the worse aspect. I can almost put up with the pain but I
>simply can't function with the mood swings, anger, irritability,
>depression, bad dreams, fatigue, insomnia, weepiness, bloating,
>constipation, food cravings and the general feeling like my life is
>falling apart. 14 days of every month are just useless. Whatever I can
>achieve, get started, initiate or plan in the first 14 days, when I have
>energy, foresight and enthusiasm, falls to a million pieces in the
>latter half of the month. I start off so good....keeping with my
>fitness plan, seeing friends, endulging in hobbies.....and then it hits.
>I don't want to see anyone, do anything or go anywhere. It's like a
>hormonal cage that comes crashing closed on Day 15 without fail. It
>affects my job, my partner, my friends, my plans and my perception. I
>know it's happening and yet I am powerless to stop it. BCPs make it
>worse, diet makes little difference, Evening Primrose, B6 and Zinc all
>fail to stem the tide. I wish I'd been born a man sometimes, I really
>do. No, i don't want to go on Anti-Depressants, I just want to feel
>like I do from Day 1 to 14 so that Day 15 - 28 is not a living hell. My
>periods are an ordeal and the older I get the harder it gets to deal
>with them because I know what to expect and I'm just tired. Is there no
>way to stop it?
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