Please help...desperate to control mood swings.........

andrea · 02-25-2003, 09:04 AM

........if any of you have suffered really bad mood swings with PCOS please help me!!!

I'm getting really desperate. I struggled with my moods for years, I would get so aggressive, frustrated, angry, tearful etc., and I just couldn't release it until I cried and cried and then I would be okay for a little while.

Anyway, we struggled with infertility but then managed to get pregnant. A few months into the pregnancy I was like a completely different person. I actually began to fell like myself. My fiance says that it really was like living with a different person for 9 months. This hormone balance lasted until a few months after the baby was born and then the mood swings started creeping back so I made an appointment asap with my endo and said I really wanted to start bcp's to try and balance my hormones. She put me on 'Cileste' (I'm in UK so not sure if you've heard of it?) as this is similiar to level of hormones in pregnancy. I am on my third month of it and am in a real state. It was fine for the first month or so but then they started creeping back on me again.

I just don't understand which hormone i have too little or too much of that is doing this to me. It's ruining my relaltionship with my Fiance and spoiling my relationship with my baby.

Does anyone have any idea what could help me out here??????????

Please help and thanks in advance. I have called to book and appointment with my Endo but I have to wait until July.......I'll have topped myself by then.

Thanks.........sorry so miserable!

I have edited this to add that I also have zero sex drive and don't want my partner to come anywhere near me. Again, I was much more loving during and after my pregnancy until recently.

rosstomlin · 02-25-2003, 10:00 AM

Hi Andrea

I know how you feel. I don't know if my moods are because of the PCOS, hormone imbalance, my stressful life, the fact that my husband suffers from mental illness, or what. I am off work at the moment with stress and the worst depression I have ever had. I feel totally alone, but am so glad I have my 2 wonderful kids. I suppose all of these things can contribute.

I suggest you ask to see your gp asap and tell him that the meds you are currently are on aren't helping. Could you possibly has Post Natal Depression, I know I did, and didn't know I had PCOS at the time. Lets face it, if you have a hormone imbalance, all your emotions are going to be all over the place. I also have no sex drive at all.

If you want to email me personally, feel free, perhaps we can give each other support.

email me at ross.tomlin@ntlworld.com, as I check that box each day.

Aubreyyyy · 02-25-2003, 11:45 AM

Hey,
I have noticed (or shall I say my BF has noticed more) the same thing with me. I have been very moody for the past 3 or 4 months now for no apparent reason whice is not like me. My BF tells me all the time that he counts on me to be the strong, level headed one and I'm just not that way anymore. I get upset if he slightly looks at me wrong. I don't know what has triggered it. I'm not preg and have never been. I'm glad to finally read i'm not the only one that's acting out of the ordinary.
What is up? I have no clue!

Ashley