pms/pmdd

Hi,
I need help with my PMS/PMDD symptoms. I am suffering from these for the past 5 years. I am anxious and nervous – before, after and during my periods. I was a very confident person, now I do not have confidence in me with no reason.
1. describe your main suffering?
Weight gain due to edema, severe anxiety, fatigue, increased hunger during periods, recently I am being foggy not able to think properly, unable to complete set or even start work on set goals.

2. what other physical sufferings do you have in your body?
Pain on left side of the body - unable to sleep on that side, weight gain, edema, throbbing in head due to blood flow, gassy upset stomach, lethargic, fatigue. memory loss.

3. what mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings?
Severe anxiety for no reason or small things,
depression,
thinking about the same thing for a long time even after trying to stop myself,
easily affected my small things,
loss of confidence,
unable to concentrate and urgent things,
unable to think or take decisions
lack of motivation
fatigue

4. what exactly do you feel when you are at your worst?
Feel really useless,
Sometimes feel like life is a waste – since unable to achieve my goals because of lack of motivation

5. when did it all start? can you connect it to any past event or disease?
It all started in summer of 2011 when I went out to an amusement park and hurt my neck and was soaked in the water park and remained in my wet clothes for the entire day.
This is when my edema started and I was not able to walk on my left foot for days.
I have started working in a group at the same time which is the last thing I want to do.

6. which time of the day you are worst?
All day long, mostly when I delay taking food

7. what are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same?
aggrevate--when i'm around people whom I don’t like

ameliorate--when i'm around people I like and love and at some short intervals of confidence.

8. do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)?
I think it’s both – First I was not able to join a job I wanted and I had to join a field which I am not at all interested in and then everything started to get worst.

9. when do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather?
I feel better in normal temperature when it’s not too cold or too hot – less humid.

10. describe your general mental set up? are you moody, arrogant, mild, agreeable changeable, nervous, suspicious, easily offended, quiet, arguing, irritating, lazy etc.
During PMS I have all the above stated mental characteristics – with lot of mood swings. Where as normally I am a confident, happy person easily mixing with people, empathetic, loving.

- how do you feel before or during a thunderstorm?
I am not afraid of thunderstorms but I haven’t faced one recently though. It seems like I am afraid of everything recently.

- do you like being consoled during your tough times?
Yes but only from very close loved ones like my mom.

- are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc?
Yes, I think I am being irritated by every noise and smells more than usual

- do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
weeping, talking to one self etc?
Yes, I can see that I am crying at every little thing even watching news or sentimental scenes in movies and little things in my own life – it feels as if I am not in my own control.

- how do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife?
I love them

11. what are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly?
my job is something i would like to get out of, so i fear not being able to leave. I am strangely being afraid of everything, even starting the work that I normally do every day.

12. what do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions?
I like hot foods – which do not suit me.

13. how is your thirst: less, normal or excessive?
Less

14. how if your hunger: less, normal or exces
sive?
More at this time. I am fatigued and hear noises in ears if I delay taking food.

15. is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand?
spicy and salty food especially black pepper (my gums are swollen and my entire body aches)

16. is your sweat normal or less or more? where does it sweat more: head, trunk or limbs?
It’s more and since I am stressed it smells – trunk

17. how is your bowel movement and stool type?
loose
18. how well do you sleep? do you have a particular posture of sleeping?
I am sleeping fine. I used to sleep left side but I am not able to do so now. I usually lie on my back or to the right side.

19. do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general?
I am not married.

20. what peculiar or strange sensation do you have in any part of your body at times? do you sometimes feel ‘ as if…..’ in some part of the body?
Sound in the ears and during bowel movement I hear my own blood rushing through my head as if - I feeling dizzy or quite tired like palpitations. It’s as if I have low BP I think.

21. what medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
I usually take flexon or ibuprofen for pain. The pain dissipated but my ankles are swollen.

22. what major diseases are running in your family?
Asthma
kidney problems

23. describe, how do you look like? describe your overall appearance.
I am 5 feet tall, 37 years old. I am now over weight weighing 140 pounds. I am losing hair since I have more dandruff during my periods. My face and eyelids are swollen. The whole body is quite soft at this time and hurts quite easily.

24. (only for females)

if you are not having normal menstrual cycles, please answer the following questions:

- are the periods early, regular or late in general?
The cycles are late most of the times.

how long do they last?
4-5 days

- do you suffer from any kind of physical or mental discomfort before, during or after the periods?
Yes both and I feel that it’s becoming unbearable mostly because I am unable to do my normal chores.

- is the flow scanty, normal or excessive?
normal

- is the blood thick bright red or pale watery?
red

- do you notice any clots in the flow?
Yes