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zoomer · 02-11-2003, 08:39 PM

GG, this has had to have been the worst PMS month I ever exsperiance in a long,long time. My emotions have gone wild and my thinking is just so wierd! Maybe now Im realizing how strange I am. This is horrible! My poor husband said he does not know what he is going to do when my 3 daughters get theirs! I pray that they have it mild! I'm sure my 12 year old is getting ready soon. She is ADHD,so break out the prozac for us all.

**Ann** · 02-11-2003, 09:53 PM

Zoomer

Vitamin B-6. Take 100 mg a day, then about 1 week before your period take 200 mg. a day. No fluid retention, no cramps and NO PMS!!! I am now menopausal, thank God, but I was Queen of PMS and Countess of Cramps.

Don't know why more doctors don't tell their women patients to try that. Mine did and I love her to death.

Try it - it really works!! And it is the kind of vitamin that if your body doesn't need it all, it just washes it away so to speak.

zoomer · 02-12-2003, 05:47 AM

Thanks, Iv been taking my childrens chewable vitamens,but I might have some B-100 someplace

Just4today · 02-12-2003, 09:50 AM

I really need that advise given for the B-6 remedy!!
I am miserable with mostly yucky mood changes with my PMS, does this help that by chance?

Thank you, Geri

**Ann** · 02-12-2003, 05:40 PM

You have to buy the B-6 100 mg. size. The amount of B-6 in a multi-vitamin just doesn't cut it. It works. I have no reason to lie to you:shades: Just take one every day and two a day for the week leading up to your period.

Just4today · 02-12-2003, 05:47 PM

Hi Anns!!
I took 4 B-6 50mg. right after I read this earlier this morning!!
I am having a really edgy month and I am going to do this until a get my . (In about a week) then I will go on 2 B-6 50mg.
Do I have this down or what? I really want help on this!!
Thank you very much for your healthy advise!!!
Geri

zoomer · 02-12-2003, 09:14 PM

~~~~~~~~~~snicker~~~~~~~~ how did you knowI just bought the multi Bs! I looked for the ones you said,but could not find it at K-mart! Ha, I better return them and go to the health food store or something. I'm so sick with pms and a cold. I think I also threw out the ones I bought long ago. Thanks! I'm taking your word for it. O does it help during?

**Ann** · 02-12-2003, 10:48 PM

Just4Today

I think you got it backwards. If you have the 50 mg. tablets, then take 2 a day (=100mg) until a week before, then double it to 4 (= 200 MG).

And Zoomer - it helps the whole month. Cramps, fluid retention, PMS, Gone!!!!

zoomer · 02-13-2003, 07:08 AM

Thanks! I have the physical symtoms for sure,all and every single one you can have, but I have no idea what to do with my crazys!

Just4today · 02-13-2003, 09:00 AM

Hi Anns,
I am definately 1 week before right now!! So I am taking 200mg, right?
I'm assuming this doesn't work instantly, but I plan on staying on this regimen forEVER!!!!
I want to thank you very much!! You sound confident that this worked for you when you still needed it!!
Being NEW again in sobriety, I feel EVERYTHING more than ever!!
I am not complaining, because I am so happy to be OFF those "other" pills I thought were my life!!
God Bless You and I will definately keep you updated on my progress!!
Geri

Paulie · 02-13-2003, 09:37 AM

B6 is that what you guys are talking about. I was told B12 but it never worked for me. I will try anything. I am so moody and so EMOTIONAL when I PMS it is nuts!!!!! I cry at everything and everyting is my fault and revolves around ME. Paul just walks away, he can tell a mile away when that weekis here.

So it is B6 - I will give it a try.

zoomer · 02-13-2003, 10:56 AM

Hey Pauly, I go nuts too! I think it's the worst part of being a woman! I don't mean to go crazy with my hormones,but they take control over me! Speaking of which, I can't wait to get this over with!

myles1 · 02-13-2003, 07:07 PM

Anns,
The reason your doctor told you is because she's a WOMAN! and knows what it's like. Unfortunately men just can't relate to our pms.

Sorry Jon in advance.

Ngaire

Juls · 02-13-2003, 07:24 PM

Right now perimenopause is driving me crazy. I feel crazy in my mind, and at night I have these horrible hot flashes and night sweats.

Juls

zoomer · 02-13-2003, 07:31 PM

Hey Juls, how old doyou have to be for primenopose? I'm 39 and I swear I'm going though some sort of change! No, men do not understand PMS. I thought about why women have her period besides droping an egg and Ithink it's like an oil change. Women give themselves blood tranzfusions every month to make us stronger to have to keep up with everything that goes on. Just a thought?

Paulie · 02-13-2003, 07:45 PM

zoom -

I will be 39 in April and I think I am starting perimenapause too. The hot flashes are killing me. The other day I took Chang to the vet and they asked me if I needed to sit down or something. It was like 50 degrees out and I was sweating bullets. and when my sister took my grocery shopping last week before I got the okay to drive...oh my gosh!!!! it was a bad one!!!

zoomer · 02-13-2003, 07:59 PM

I'm so out of tune with my body I have no idea what is going on! I have night sweats. I get dizzy, my back kills. I'm so use to living with pain that I just deal with it unless it gets real bad,then I go to the doctors. Do yo get dizzy too and headaches? I feel like such a baby. Growing up I did't really have any one to talk to about woman stuff except for my best guy friend,but he was a guy. After I drink a cup of coffee,boy do I sweat! think that's a good thing right?

**Ann** · 02-13-2003, 08:17 PM

Hot flashes and menopausal mood swings - Black Cohosh, Evening Primrose Oil, Dong Quoi...worked for a while, I finally chucked it all and got hormones..ahhhhh what a relief. I know, I know...all the talk about not taking hormones....well you just wait and see. Those hot flashes will kill you.

**Ann** · 02-13-2003, 08:25 PM

http://www.herron.com.au/products/vi...vitaminb6.html

Read a little about it.

myles1 · 02-14-2003, 05:33 AM

Hi Zoomer and Juls,

Zoomer you don't need to be any particular age for perimenopause. It can start in the late 30's.

Ngaire

zoomer · 02-14-2003, 05:49 AM

Hey N! That's just great! Now I wonder, if the womans sexual peak is in her early 30s, I wonder if that's God's way of saying hurry up and reproduse,before I zap you with the crazys! Our bodies are a funny thing! Good thing there is Midol! Eventough I don't take it,but I can understand now why women buy it in cases

Juls · 02-14-2003, 09:34 AM

That's funny Ann's, but I'm not there yet. LOL Actually the evening primrose oil seems to be helping. Right not I only get the hot flashes at night. They're so weird. It's this strangest sensation of heat all the way up my spine. The other night, it was pretty cold in the bedroom, but I had my fan on high and an icepack on my back.

Zoomer, I've had bad backaches too. Also headaches. Caffeine is not supposed to be good, because it is supposed to make one more susceptible to hot flashes, but I'm not ready to give up my cup of java in the morning.

The idea of menopause really depresses me because I feel like this is really the onset of old age, and I don't want to face that. I have so many bizarre aches and pains now.

There are times when I'm so irritable I wish someone would say something to me so I could get into a fight.

I missed my cycle for three months, then had one for two weeks.

Plus, I was born with two uteruses and three kidneys. I was hoping that having two uteri would delay my menopause for a good long time, but I guess not. I'm glad we have this women's board to discuss all this stuff. It really helps getting feedback from all the other women here.

Juls

zoomer · 02-14-2003, 09:46 AM

Holi cow juls, your a morf! Actually you might have been a twin. 3 kidnies! 2 uterouses! It must be a double whammy when you got your PMS! Now did thy leave the extra kidny in? Good lord! Wow talk about strange! No your not strange,but the physical aspects of bein a twin with in your body. Do you feel like you have two souls? God, can you emajion the complexity of that one! I was born without wizdom teeth, so I did not get that much wizdom. Gee wiz! I'm glad to know you! How fun it must be for you to know your so specail that god gave you some extra parts! Let me know all the details! (I'm not prying, it just sounds so neat).

Juls · 02-14-2003, 10:04 AM

Zoomer,

That's what the Dr. said, that I had started out to be twins, but that's as far as it went. The way I found this all out was when Iwas 17 I went to get fitted for a diaphragm. I have only one opening so to speak, but when the Dr. examined me she found I had what was called a double-barelled vagina. (God, I hope no guys are reading this LOL). Each vaginal canal led to it's own cervix and to it's own uterus.

All this was determined by doing a dye x-ray, and that's how they found the extra kidney. It is full size and functions normally. The doc said the uterus and kidneys are formed at the same time. The condition I have occurs in about 1 in ten million. Sometimes I think about what would have happend if I'd kept on developing into a twin.

I do feel like a dual personality alot of times. LOL

My son was conceived and born in my right uterus, and my daughter in my left. They were both breech, and I had to have c-sections for both deliveries.

Pretty wild huh?

Juls

zoomer · 02-14-2003, 10:29 AM

Hey Juls, no not wierd, but pretty cool! Now I was born breach, so you kids must do things ass backwards too, or maybe not because they were born C-section! Now, I wonder if you did have twins and each one was born in a seprate utirous, if they would actually be twins, or two babies born at the same time? Strange! Wow, too neat! Do you get studied a lot? I mean by doctors? You must be a very interesting case to the OBGYN world and all!

02-11-2003, 08:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Pms GG, this has had to have been the worst PMS month I ever exsperiance in a long,long time. My emotions have gone wild and my thinking is just so wierd! Maybe now Im realizing how strange I am. This is horrible! My poor husband said he does not know what he is going to do when my 3 daughters get theirs! I pray that they have it mild! I'm sure my 12 year old is getting ready soon. She is ADHD,so break out the prozac for us all.

02-11-2003, 09:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,155	Zoomer Vitamin B-6. Take 100 mg a day, then about 1 week before your period take 200 mg. a day. No fluid retention, no cramps and NO PMS!!! I am now menopausal, thank God, but I was Queen of PMS and Countess of Cramps. Don't know why more doctors don't tell their women patients to try that. Mine did and I love her to death. Try it - it really works!! And it is the kind of vitamin that if your body doesn't need it all, it just washes it away so to speak. __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~

02-12-2003, 05:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,155	You have to buy the B-6 100 mg. size. The amount of B-6 in a multi-vitamin just doesn't cut it. It works. I have no reason to lie to you:shades: Just take one every day and two a day for the week leading up to your period. __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~

02-12-2003, 10:48 PM	#8 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,155	Just4Today I think you got it backwards. If you have the 50 mg. tablets, then take 2 a day (=100mg) until a week before, then double it to 4 (= 200 MG). And Zoomer - it helps the whole month. Cramps, fluid retention, PMS, Gone!!!! __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~

02-13-2003, 09:37 AM	#11 (permalink)
Paulie It is what it is!!! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sobriety Posts: 5,525	B6 is that what you guys are talking about. I was told B12 but it never worked for me. I will try anything. I am so moody and so EMOTIONAL when I PMS it is nuts!!!!! I cry at everything and everyting is my fault and revolves around ME. Paul just walks away, he can tell a mile away when that weekis here. So it is B6 - I will give it a try. __________________ I know more about how to live than I did yesterday, but not as much as I'll know tomorrow. Today, Ill learn something new~JFT, 1/27/06 The difference between a good day and a bad day, is about 2 days~Ann of SR

02-12-2003, 05:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Thanks, Iv been taking my childrens chewable vitamens,but I might have some B-100 someplace

02-12-2003, 09:50 AM	#4 (permalink)
Just4today Paused Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Central Coast, CA Posts: 15	I really need that advise given for the B-6 remedy!! I am miserable with mostly yucky mood changes with my PMS, does this help that by chance? Thank you, Geri

02-12-2003, 05:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
Just4today Paused Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Central Coast, CA Posts: 15	Hi Anns!! I took 4 B-6 50mg. right after I read this earlier this morning!! I am having a really edgy month and I am going to do this until a get my . (In about a week) then I will go on 2 B-6 50mg. Do I have this down or what? I really want help on this!! Thank you very much for your healthy advise!!! Geri

02-12-2003, 09:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	~~~~~~~~~~snicker~~~~~~~~ how did you knowI just bought the multi Bs! I looked for the ones you said,but could not find it at K-mart! Ha, I better return them and go to the health food store or something. I'm so sick with pms and a cold. I think I also threw out the ones I bought long ago. Thanks! I'm taking your word for it. O does it help during?

02-13-2003, 07:08 AM	#9 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Thanks! I have the physical symtoms for sure,all and every single one you can have, but I have no idea what to do with my crazys!

02-13-2003, 09:00 AM	#10 (permalink)
Just4today Paused Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Central Coast, CA Posts: 15	Hi Anns, I am definately 1 week before right now!! So I am taking 200mg, right? I'm assuming this doesn't work instantly, but I plan on staying on this regimen forEVER!!!! I want to thank you very much!! You sound confident that this worked for you when you still needed it!! Being NEW again in sobriety, I feel EVERYTHING more than ever!! I am not complaining, because I am so happy to be OFF those "other" pills I thought were my life!! God Bless You and I will definately keep you updated on my progress!! Geri

02-13-2003, 10:56 AM	#12 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Hey Pauly, I go nuts too! I think it's the worst part of being a woman! I don't mean to go crazy with my hormones,but they take control over me! Speaking of which, I can't wait to get this over with!

02-13-2003, 07:07 PM	#13 (permalink)
myles1 Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Ayer's Cliff, Quebec Posts: 797	Anns, The reason your doctor told you is because she's a WOMAN! and knows what it's like. Unfortunately men just can't relate to our pms. Sorry Jon in advance. Ngaire

02-13-2003, 07:24 PM	#14 (permalink)
Juls Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,101	Right now perimenopause is driving me crazy. I feel crazy in my mind, and at night I have these horrible hot flashes and night sweats. Juls

02-13-2003, 07:31 PM	#15 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Hey Juls, how old doyou have to be for primenopose? I'm 39 and I swear I'm going though some sort of change! No, men do not understand PMS. I thought about why women have her period besides droping an egg and Ithink it's like an oil change. Women give themselves blood tranzfusions every month to make us stronger to have to keep up with everything that goes on. Just a thought?

02-13-2003, 07:45 PM	#16 (permalink)
Paulie It is what it is!!! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sobriety Posts: 5,525	zoom - I will be 39 in April and I think I am starting perimenapause too. The hot flashes are killing me. The other day I took Chang to the vet and they asked me if I needed to sit down or something. It was like 50 degrees out and I was sweating bullets. and when my sister took my grocery shopping last week before I got the okay to drive...oh my gosh!!!! it was a bad one!!! __________________ I know more about how to live than I did yesterday, but not as much as I'll know tomorrow. Today, Ill learn something new~JFT, 1/27/06 The difference between a good day and a bad day, is about 2 days~Ann of SR

02-13-2003, 07:59 PM	#17 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	I'm so out of tune with my body I have no idea what is going on! I have night sweats. I get dizzy, my back kills. I'm so use to living with pain that I just deal with it unless it gets real bad,then I go to the doctors. Do yo get dizzy too and headaches? I feel like such a baby. Growing up I did't really have any one to talk to about woman stuff except for my best guy friend,but he was a guy. After I drink a cup of coffee,boy do I sweat! think that's a good thing right?

02-13-2003, 08:17 PM	#18 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,155	Hot flashes and menopausal mood swings - Black Cohosh, Evening Primrose Oil, Dong Quoi...worked for a while, I finally chucked it all and got hormones..ahhhhh what a relief. I know, I know...all the talk about not taking hormones....well you just wait and see. Those hot flashes will kill you. __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~

02-13-2003, 08:25 PM	#19 (permalink)
Ann Sharing Our Light Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 15,155	http://www.herron.com.au/products/vi...vitaminb6.html Read a little about it. __________________ Somewhere between the gator swamp and the Taj Mahal there is a path, it may be hidden, overgrown or may blend in with the other surroundings, but it is there, it's your path and it is calling you.~Frankly~

02-14-2003, 05:33 AM	#20 (permalink)
myles1 Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Ayer's Cliff, Quebec Posts: 797	Hi Zoomer and Juls, Zoomer you don't need to be any particular age for perimenopause. It can start in the late 30's. Ngaire

02-14-2003, 05:49 AM	#21 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Hey N! That's just great! Now I wonder, if the womans sexual peak is in her early 30s, I wonder if that's God's way of saying hurry up and reproduse,before I zap you with the crazys! Our bodies are a funny thing! Good thing there is Midol! Eventough I don't take it,but I can understand now why women buy it in cases

02-14-2003, 09:34 AM	#22 (permalink)
Juls Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,101	That's funny Ann's, but I'm not there yet. LOL Actually the evening primrose oil seems to be helping. Right not I only get the hot flashes at night. They're so weird. It's this strangest sensation of heat all the way up my spine. The other night, it was pretty cold in the bedroom, but I had my fan on high and an icepack on my back. Zoomer, I've had bad backaches too. Also headaches. Caffeine is not supposed to be good, because it is supposed to make one more susceptible to hot flashes, but I'm not ready to give up my cup of java in the morning. The idea of menopause really depresses me because I feel like this is really the onset of old age, and I don't want to face that. I have so many bizarre aches and pains now. There are times when I'm so irritable I wish someone would say something to me so I could get into a fight. I missed my cycle for three months, then had one for two weeks. Plus, I was born with two uteruses and three kidneys. I was hoping that having two uteri would delay my menopause for a good long time, but I guess not. I'm glad we have this women's board to discuss all this stuff. It really helps getting feedback from all the other women here. Juls

02-14-2003, 09:46 AM	#23 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Holi cow juls, your a morf! Actually you might have been a twin. 3 kidnies! 2 uterouses! It must be a double whammy when you got your PMS! Now did thy leave the extra kidny in? Good lord! Wow talk about strange! No your not strange,but the physical aspects of bein a twin with in your body. Do you feel like you have two souls? God, can you emajion the complexity of that one! I was born without wizdom teeth, so I did not get that much wizdom. Gee wiz! I'm glad to know you! How fun it must be for you to know your so specail that god gave you some extra parts! Let me know all the details! (I'm not prying, it just sounds so neat).

02-14-2003, 10:04 AM	#24 (permalink)
Juls Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: California, USA Posts: 1,101	Zoomer, That's what the Dr. said, that I had started out to be twins, but that's as far as it went. The way I found this all out was when Iwas 17 I went to get fitted for a diaphragm. I have only one opening so to speak, but when the Dr. examined me she found I had what was called a double-barelled vagina. (God, I hope no guys are reading this LOL). Each vaginal canal led to it's own cervix and to it's own uterus. All this was determined by doing a dye x-ray, and that's how they found the extra kidney. It is full size and functions normally. The doc said the uterus and kidneys are formed at the same time. The condition I have occurs in about 1 in ten million. Sometimes I think about what would have happend if I'd kept on developing into a twin. I do feel like a dual personality alot of times. LOL My son was conceived and born in my right uterus, and my daughter in my left. They were both breech, and I had to have c-sections for both deliveries. Pretty wild huh? Juls

02-14-2003, 10:29 AM	#25 (permalink)
zoomer Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: It's raining again! Posts: 2,356	Hey Juls, no not wierd, but pretty cool! Now I was born breach, so you kids must do things ass backwards too, or maybe not because they were born C-section! Now, I wonder if you did have twins and each one was born in a seprate utirous, if they would actually be twins, or two babies born at the same time? Strange! Wow, too neat! Do you get studied a lot? I mean by doctors? You must be a very interesting case to the OBGYN world and all!

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