Lately, i have been feeling out of control in my head. It's like one second i can be totally happy and then the next second someone will say or do something that i don't like and it doesn't just make me angry...it sends me into a rage. Often, I don't express it, and usually it only lasts for a minute or two...but it's a feeling that scares me some. Other times, i'll just wake up and be in a horrible mood all day, lingering somewhere between crying and exploding. I'll feel angry at everything, and like i am the ugliest, grossest, most hopeless thing in the world. Am i just being a big baby or is this the mood swing symptom you are all talking about? I really need to know if this is something that will be soothed once i get my hormones back in check or if i just need some stress management classes! :-p
please respond!
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High Noon, you are not alone. I feel that was sometimes too. All of the sudden I just get so angry I want to explode. It usually happens to me when I am getting ready to go somewhere and my hair won't behave or my makeup just doesn't look right. I freak out, my face gets so hot and then I like to throw something, usually my hair brush. I have never told anyone about my little rages/temper tantrums. I just let myself cry for a little bit and then wash my face and start over again. Sometimes I think I am crazy, but most of the time I think I just need to vent and this is my safe way of doing it. You are not a big baby, PCOS affects your hormones, which affect your moods. I have good days and bad days, Met has thankfully helped me out in that department. Have you talked to your doctor at all? Good luck, and please know you are never alone.
I am wondering if it is possible that what you are experiencing is more of a brain thing than a hormone thing.
I wonder if it's seratonin levels rather than estrogen levels.
Most women get teary when their estrogen drops-
do you know foods effect these levels in your brain?-they may be hormones too-i'm really not sure--
but i am thinking that cottage cheese was a food that triggers these "feel good" seratonin levels in your brain.
chocolate is another food that really acts like a drug in your brain, i can't remember what it triggers right now though.
i still am experiencing exhausted new baby brain fog so my thinker isn't working real well.
__________________ Kathie age 48
diagnosed Stein Leventhal Syndrome (pcos) in early 1980's
12 years of infertility before
Two pergonal pregnancies
30 years of marriage
one single pergonal pregnancy in 1989 , one triplet pergonal pregnancy that lasted 28 weeks in 1990--one triplet baby in heaven--one child with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair.
positive pregnancy test on 5-8-2003-What a surprise!!
A little girl was born in December 2003--what a blessing.
You can get GLA in evening primrose oil, black currant oil, and one other thing that I can't remember at the moment -- you can get GLA in pills if you'd rather try that. The Barleans stuff comes as evening primrose oil, along with flaxseed oil and other things, and somehow the combination works really well for me. DH calls it my Happy Girl medicine.
I started taking this a year ago after my miscarriage when I was really crazy a lot of the time, and it made a huge difference -- I think the bottle says take 1 tablespoon a day, but I got better results at 3 tbls a day for awhile and then reduced the dose.
It tastes horrible -- what I do is put the dose in a mini dixie cup and fill up the rest with a diet soda and then chug it back like a shot.
If I miss a dose, I can feel myself starting to slip into crazy again.
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Sometimes I fly off the handle for no apparent reason also. And when someone tells me to "settle down" or "calm down" that just makes me 10 times more angry. My DH knows when I get like this, it is best to just go into another room and not aggrivate the situation. After a few minutes, I'm fine again. I honestly think it has a lot to do with my hormones and I'm hoping once I go back to my doctor, he will be able to put me on Met or something to get things leveled out. I will know next week.
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I get those rages and want to throw some thing or hit someone. My face turns blood red and I just feel out of control. At the time it seems perfectly logical to be that angry about whatever it is, but later it seems silly. Especially if I throw a fit in front of people. I used to not have such a problem with it. I thought maybe it was my blood pressure. Whatever it is, I feel like I'm going to blow up!
I've never heard of cottage cheese affecting seratonin levels, that is SO interesting because as I posted in another thread I've been seriously CRAVING cottage cheese and peanuts for about a month... about the same time that I started getting depressed, gaining weight, breaking out, etc.! And I never even liked cottage cheese that much. I bet that's why I'm craving it... and once I start eating it I can't stop! I almost get a "drunk" feeling from it.
I've also started craving chocolate. I'm trying to follow a low-carb diet so I've taken to eating unsweetened chocolate (unsweetened baking chocolate with no sweetener... it's bitter but it satisfies my craving, that should tell you how desperate I am for chocolate, LOL) Does chocolate also boosts seratonin? What about peanuts? I've got to find a way to boost these "feel good" hormones without eating so many calories!
i believe i recently read that there are effects on the brain from chocolate
and if you think about it
if you are feeling down and you eat chocolate-do you feel better?
i know i do.
so i did a search on chocolate and found nothing about chocolate's effect on brain chemicals but
i did find that chocolate is very high in magnesium.
calcium and magnesium need to be eaten proportionately--
too much calcium will constipate a person unless there is some magnesium in the diet to create balance.
i've taken a lot of calcium suppliments in the past and i've read where some people with pcos have calcium deficiency-
since you are craving chocolate and cottage cheese i thought the calcium / magnesuim connection was interesting.
__________________ Kathie age 48
diagnosed Stein Leventhal Syndrome (pcos) in early 1980's
12 years of infertility before
Two pergonal pregnancies
30 years of marriage
one single pergonal pregnancy in 1989 , one triplet pergonal pregnancy that lasted 28 weeks in 1990--one triplet baby in heaven--one child with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair.
positive pregnancy test on 5-8-2003-What a surprise!!
A little girl was born in December 2003--what a blessing.
i already posted this in another section... 
