premenstrual dysphoric disorder

It's a very uncomfortable luteal phase.

So that's when we look at things like really severe PMS or even PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

So when someone has a really tough time in their luteal phase, I'm looking at how do we help support their physiology? Because even though that's common, it's not normal.

It's a check engine light from the body.

Exactly, because high levels of histamine stimulate the ovaries to produce more estrogen.

And this is why many women notice improvements in their period, their PMS, their PMDD, when they take antihistamines regularly.

I feel like there was a big wave on TikTok and social media a few years ago, and it's continued, where people are like, oh my gosh, I started taking antihistamines daily and things got so much better.

When you take the antihistamines, it's basically like blocking your histamine receptors from responding to those histamines, but those histamines are still being released.

And I don't want to say this because I don't want this to be taken like I'm making a joke out of this.

Like I'm being so serious that I think it's cured my PMDD.

which is alarming.

I'm on a very, very, very low dose every other day.

And I had no PMDD

this

month.

I had a couple of high histamine days, but that was diet related, but I did not have PMDD symptoms.

Again, it's not going to fix the problem.

Now, there are some other things like PMDD.

This is something that a lot of people also struggle with.

And if you do, then you need to be even more diligent with your vitamins and minerals in your diet and doing whatever you can to keep your body in a good place so that you don't struggle with it as bad.

Oh, like I couldn't control it.

And so I went to my doctor and she asked me a bunch of questions and she was like, I think you have PMDD.

And I was like.

fuck is that

great thanks for the acronym what the fuck

yeah so it was just like my mood I could not control it and it was like for a week of every month I would just be waking up with these like horrible thoughts and feelings about my life and do my friends hate me and am I even good at my job and like it was so outrageous like the scale of it like the response in my body and everything and so yeah she was like I think you have PMDD

which is for our listeners

I think it's like premenstrual dysphoric disorder

So if you have ADHD and you're taking that, I read a huge article on this the other day and I didn't even realize it can actually worsen your ADHD symptoms.

And the fact that I have PMDD, the SI was just so loud and I didn't know that that was an effect of it.

Yeah, I think there's so much that isn't known.

I mean, it's being kind of given out so freely without...

Yeah.

To bring the awareness to it.

And is there any, I don't want to say cure, because that's not the right terminology, but is there anything that can help with it and alleviate it? Because I know, like I was diagnosed with PMDD and there's not a lot around that.

There's not like you can do, there's not like you can take.

And actually, I did a post the other day about how a lot of my disabilities are, well, when I say my most disabling conditions are not actually classed as disabilities.

So perimenopause, PMDD.

um those those types of things which I'm like they are crippling to me sorry excuse me um yeah absolutely crippling to me um Hashimoto's disease again it's an autoimmune condition it's not a disability but all of those three are probably the worst things that combined make the rest of me feel horrendous um so and

I think that that The interesting thing about the perimenopause and menopause aspect is something that I've been learning a lot again, probably because partly there's definitely personal experience of it going on at the moment.

When the truth was, I didn't have these urges before birth control.

And sure, if women are watching this, there's a thing called PMDD, which is premenstrual dysphoric disorder, which right before you get your period, it causes extreme suicidal urges and behaviors and self-harm.

Birth control induced that in me.

I look back now what happened the days before my period.