Periods closer together, symptoms worse?
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So I've been in peri for about two and a half years. The thing I've noticed is that when my periods come closer together (only 2-3 weeks apart) my symptoms (nausea, poor sleep, loose stools, mood swings, etc.) are more severe. But when my cycle starts to space itself out, pushing past 35 days toward 40+ or more, then everything levels out a bit and becomes easier to deal with.
I usually see women complain of the opposite, that getting their period brings them a little bit of relief. But is anyone else like me, seeing a worsening of symptoms when their periods start coming closer and closer together again?
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aliseanya quenby25609
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Resounding YES! It is horrendous. I didn't have a period for two months this year. It was heaven. I felt like myself again. Then I got my period this month & its been on & off all month. The symptoms are debilitating & a horror movie.
Same symptoms- nausea, poor sleep. My anxiety is high. IBS-M, Gerd issues, bladder issues. I had bad pelvic pain but luckily that went away. I am over it & I want those pain free happy months back.
Jelen aliseanya
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you described every symptom and feeling that i face with day to day.
quenby25609 aliseanya
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Yes, yes. I've been up the last couple nights at 2-3am to use the bathroom (urgently, bowel movements) and then feel nauseated and either too hot or with chills (or both!) As soon as my periods pushed closer together the symptoms all came back. Brain fog, too, and more mood swings. Hopefully it means we'll be the type that when our periods stop, so will the symptoms.
toria_07298 quenby25609
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wow im exactly the same x
toria_07298 quenby25609
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yes yes yes! my periods are 18 days apart and feel vile x
Jelen quenby25609
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I have noticed the same. I am in perimenopause for almost 2 years - started in October 2019 when I missed the period for the first time. most of the time i feel like I am pregnant. And I noticed the same, i feel excellent when i miss the period - when my periods are closer - feel like ill all the time, especially after period. i have bloating, morning sickness, back pain, sometimes problem with sleeping. i was exercising in the past and felt good. now i cant, lost my strength and energy. because of it I became depressive, lonely, avoiding my fiends and above all i want to quit my job since i do not have energy to be the best at the work since my job is demanding. i am 47 years old.
quenby25609 Jelen
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YES. After my period is when I feel the worst, like I've been hit by a flu/morning sickness truck. It's awful.
Salesmanswidow quenby25609
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omg my bloating is insane, i feel like i have constant all day morning sickness which has been so bad the last few days. i wake up feeling like could actually be sick then lie in bed for an hour trying to gather the energy (which is pretty non existent) to get out if bed, then get my nervous tummy & have to run to the loo (its very loose & smelly sorry ladies) then have to force feed myself because im trying to maintain my weight after loosing so much last year! Oh & the back ache & period cramps which is constant too god does it EVER end x
quenby25609 Salesmanswidow
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YES. The loose stools in the morning! I have that, too. It's horrible, and I never dealt with it until my periods suddenly became irregular when I was 38.
Salesmanswidow quenby25609
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its all just so exhausting! i was woke at 5am this morning with such stomach cramping & sweating, im not even sure if its my bowels or period cramps?! i lay there for ages but had to go rush eventually loose very loose, then go again about an hour later. now ive got that uneasy nervous sore tummy feeling & zero appetite x
toria_07298 Salesmanswidow
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i had this for 4 days, its settled a bit now but still very bloated x
Salesmanswidow toria_07298
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toria im pretty sure its coming in cycles now? but ive been bloated for almost a year! doctor says ibs which i know strikes perimenopausal women im still waiting for an abdominal scan 12 weeks on, im fed up of this low dragging pain in my pubic area now & the back ache x
toria_07298 Salesmanswidow
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i highly doubt we all have ibs! doctors are clueless, im that bloated i feel like i could burst, ive been waiting over 8 months for a gyno app, i had that scan and all it showed was fibroids, which i kind of knew i had anyway x
bev27429 toria_07298
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Doctors are definitely clueless! It's incredible to me that there is a complete failure on the part of the medical system to understand what is actually happening to women!
quenby25609 bev27429
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Exactly. I was told I had IBS for two years before I realized it was cyclical (sick at the same time each day, and also each month with my cycle, and that everything went wrong when my period suddenly came back and was irregular. I even had one doctor tell me that hormones couldn't make me feel as sick as I was, and I thought, "Have you ever been pregnant????"
bev27429 quenby25609
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I couldn't agree more. Why is it that doctors understand the impacts of puberty, PMS, PMDD, post-natal depression and psychosis, but then refuse to admit that the perimenopausal transition can cause severe physical and psychological impacts?! I don't get it!
toria_07298 bev27429
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totally, maybe they cant be bothered, i mean anyone with half a brain would put two and two together and say "wait all these women coming in with the same problems going for the same scan etc etc it cant all be coincidence" x
toria_07298 bev27429
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ive had psychosis from medication allergy and let me tell you this doctors cant even handle that, put me in a room and had to wait until 4am to be seen, went in at 7pm and all they said was heres some benzos (which im allergic too it was on my notes) its a shame as i used to admire doctors, not anymore x