re: Prozac for PMS?

roxi2009 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:07:35 GMT

Well, judging from the tone of this post I now fully understand why woman cannot get any help for their medical issues. PMDD is VERY, VERY real. I know, I lived with it for 38 years of my life and the symptoms didn't start to let up until I entered menopause two years ago! PMDD was unheard of in my day and PMS and menstrual cramps were "all in my head". My whole personality changed about 2 weeks before my period. I became not just irritable, but angry, even violent, I had a lack of impulse control, I was promiscuous, every single month it was like a dark cloud came over me and I changed! I also had EVERY symptom listed in your post! When my period came down I was literally in agony for seven days. I couldn't eat, I was put on very strong pain medication at a very young age (demerol). I was given 4 D&C's and STILL I continued to suffer! For 3 weeks out of every month I COULD NOT FUNCTION! I couldn't go to school or hold a job for very long or be a mother to my son or get out of bed! I had to cram all my life into one week every month because that's the ONLY time I felt normal and I did that for 38 YEARS! I finally went on disability nine years ago! I never had hopes, dreams, goals when I was young--I didn't dare! I turned to drugs and alcohol for some kind of relief and attemped suicide! The male doctors I went to did NOTHING to help me because they didn't believe me when I told them what was going on! That's why to this day you couldn't PAY me to go to a male doctor, especially a male gyn doctor. You guys got all the book learning but you have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what a woman can go through each month and you really don't care! You proved that when you wrote that woman can "mistake" pregnancy for PMS! That statement is ridiculous and condescending! I damn sure always knew when I was SUFFERING and when I was PREGNANT and would never confuse the two! Doctors with attitudes like you are the reason woman have to suffer so much for so long!