KirstenL4W

Women all over the world ride a hormonal roller coaster every single month. I’m one of them. Besides the bloating, cramps, sore bewbs, and the cost of buying products to catch and contain the bloody deluge and related pain, there are the predictable hormonal surges, but how they manifest themselves every month can be very, very unpredictable.

I make sure I take my vitameatavegemins, and I find that a calcium supplement can help a lot with the physical symptoms. But I still, after all these years, cannot figure out how to manage the mood swings. It would be really nice if I could just hide away for that week, just stay away from the world in general. Then nothing will trigger a mood swing, at at worst I watch a sad movie and cry through it. No one is bothered by it or tempted to put me away. But I have a job and an awesome Boyfriend, so I need to be in the world. My job is easy enough to handle - I might be a bit more tired than usual, but they provide caffeinated beverages to help with that. Aunt Flo seems to try her darndest to drive a wedge between Boyfriend and myself.

The absolute worst part of this is that my mind starts spinning out of control. I start filling myself with doubt - I doubt my abilities to even be in a relationship. I get frustrated so easily with the most minor of things, and my need to stay away from the world at that time makes me nostalgic for my single days - so much so that I start thinking that I was better off. I am so pissy and resentful at having to deal with another person during this time. I wish that I could do something to lessen the effects of this. I don’t want to be argumentative. I don’t want to think that I’d be better off alone. There’s stuff I can take for the bloat and cramps. But what can I do for the roller coaster? How do you all deal with this?

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