Musings of Someone with PMS (Pre-menstrual Syndrome)

When your shark week approaches, everything basically becomes influenced by your hormones. This is what happens when your PMS or pre-menstrual syndrome comes through. They’re tough challenges for sure, like monthly quests that you have to get past. It’s just a matter of getting used to them at the end of the day.

Your moods change, your cravings intensify, and you have this sudden feeling of wanting to rage at everything. Your patience shortens and your tolerance over your pet peeves becomes low to non-existent. And these are not even half of the struggles!

Here are some of the musings of someone with PMS, the excruciating phase before your period, arrives:

Musings of Someone with PMS (Pre-menstrual Syndrome)

Constant mood changes

My first musing goes to the constant mood changes that I go through. Why do I have to go through intense flightiness? It changes like the weather, or even worse than it. My mood can go from silliness to impatience in merely a minute and it concerns me sometimes. You can find me laughing at a meme at this moment and then tearing up over a childhood memory the next. It sounds silly, but it’s very much possible with someone who sheds her uterus lining over the failure of childbearing. To the people I care for who experience this phase: I am deeply sorry.

Irritability and impatience

This may sound really mean but when I’m undergoing PMS, people just exist and I’ll be ardently irritated at them. Someone, who did not do me wrong at all, just rode the jeep? I’ll decide I don’t like them. My boyfriend, who has been nothing but supportive of me all throughout, just sent a meme? Better unsend that right now because it’s offensive (when it really isn’t) before I get mad at you!

I hate when those things happen. I usually am a rational person who has reasonable anger explosions, but hormones turn me otherwise.

Breakdowns

Everything is just sad, I’d think. Everything would trigger the crybaby out of me. I’d break down over the tiniest inconveniences. Even at mid-day, expect my eyes to well up with tears only because it’s too hot. I acknowledge that I’m already a sensitive person innately, but my PMS just makes it umpteen times worse – even the thought of it already makes me cry.

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Cramps

Why do I even have to have periods?! I exclaim as my abdominal and back pains kill me slowly. It’s not even exaggerated; it gets too painful sometimes that I just want to faint. At least that would help me escape the pain for some time at least.

Exhaustion

Tired for no reason – that basically summarizes the entire experience. I’d find my energy seeped off for reasons unknown to me, and then remember that I’m in my “before the big red day” week. It would all make sense then.

That is why menstruating is no joke. If you have someone who is going through a tormenting phase before or during a period week, go easy on them. They’re most likely trying their best not to collapse in a pool of blood. Literally!