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Yes I have had cramps so bad that I threw up. I had severe PMS but I don’t think it crossed over into PMDD. I don’t know. It’s a moot point at this stage of my life. Just like my mother, I welcomed menopause with open arms. My daughter is having the same problems I had only earlier in her life.
I did find that vitamins helped a lot. Some months I would sleep for 1 to 3 days. I usually tried not to plan any physical activity during my period but my husband was less than understanding. One time we went to the county fair during the worst part. I was walking in the area of the fair that had the medical tents and one of the nurses ran out of the tent and took my arm and insisted that I come and sit down. During my period I would actually turn gray and looked like I was in shock. I was also very overweight at the time which made everything worse. I did find that being on Prozac made things a hundred times worse. If I remember correctly, Prozac increases the serotonin in your brain. Unfortunately, that also makes PMS worse. I started bleeding really bad before I stopped taking the Prozac. I had to change my pad every 10 to 15 minutes for a couple of hours during the worst day then it would slow down.
The worst period I ever had was about 6 months before I hit menopause. I was driving on a major highway on my way to pick up my daughter. I had picked up some food because I had not eaten dinner yet. Half way to where she was I started getting the severe cramps. It was so bad I just wanted to curl up in a ball but there was no place to pull over due to construction. In just a few minutes the pain got so bad I threw up what I had eaten while driving at 60 mph in a construction zone. The pain kept increasing and after my stomach emptied I lost control of my bladder and bowels and still no place to pull over. I was already late picking up my daughter so with the damage already done, I just kept going. I was an absolute basket case by the time I picked her up and had to take a shower as soon as we got home. I did have fibroid tumors which would contribute to the bleeding and cramps but all that is gone now. Hormone production doesn’t stop until you reach about 80 years old so I still think sometimes I have a ghost of a period with very mild PMS where I just get really cranky and irritable but no bleeding or cramps.
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