Worst PMS of my life, because of hormone syncing?

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Ok here's the story:



I am on the pill. I start my placebos on Monday. My period will likely come Friday/Saturday. For the past week (and now STILL) I am having the worst PMS of my LIFE. I am ridiculously moody and grumpy, disinterested, fatigued, sad, and having the worst and most painful bloating of my life. My skin has broken out like crazy (and I NEVER get facial acne) and my face is all puffy. The bloating is so bad I couldn't even eat anything until 5pm today because my stomach was so uncomfortable. I don't know if the bloating is related to the fact that I am also getting insane and random sugar cravings and binging on candy at RANDOM.

WHY? WHAT THE HELL?

The only hypothesis I have is this: Where I work we are mostly females. For the past year and a half I have been the only one on the pill, so I sort of made everyone else's periods shift to when mine are and we are all synced up. However, about 2-3 months ago our assistant manager came back from Maternity leave who is ALSO on the pill and whose placebo week is the one right before mine. Right now everyone is on their period but me. Can this change in hormone variety be what's causing this?

BTW I am almost always 100% PMS free. I never get any symptoms before my period besides a change in sex drive. No tenderness, no bloating, no pre-cramping, nada.

Whyyyyyyyyy.

Comments

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Hmm.. I have been eating really well these past couple weeks, actually. And not much different than what I usually eat!

However, I HAVE been taking my pill erratically. I'm not sexually active right now, and I'm having my IUD put in on Tuesday so I'm at the point of feeling like I really don't care if I take it on time.

We're a pretty tiny little place where I work, with 6 females. I figured throwing another one into the mix would be enough to make things a little wonky, but not this!

I have been on the pill continually for like, 5 years and I remember when I started living with another female awhile ago who started the pill (while I was living with her) on a different schedule than mine. I would always get cramps when she was on her lady time, and sometimes even breakthrough bleeding! No PMSing, just the cramps and such.

Argh.

[archangelbeth]

If you've been taking the pill erratically, that is entirely likely to be confusing your body -- and/or allowing other people's pheromones to influence you, since the ovaries aren't under a constant stream of hypnosis! (Sounds like you're actually a pheromone responder, really! Maybe something in the scent of uterine blood?)

I hope that everything sorts out when you've got the IUD in!