Splain me something.

baconsmom

So, why does Yaz or Beyaz or Tazmanian Devil Birth Control or whatever the fcuk it is now specify that it treats PMDD, but not PMS? Are they so different? I thought it was a degree issue - like, PMS sucks, but PMDD SUX TIMES ELEVENTY. 

So if something treats SUX TIMES ELEVENTY, wouldn't it just treat normal suckage along the way? 

ReturnOfKuus

...also waiting...

baconsmom

Damn it, Kuus, I thought you'd give me some super sciencey answer. 

Maybe I should just take it and find out. OR! Maybe it REDUCES PMDD to mere PMS. So they can't say they treat PMS, maybe, but they can say they treat PMDD. 

Or PMS isn't pathologic enough? Like, it's just something we should live with, until it gets so bad we scream at our families for no reason and then storm out and have to come crawling home with our tails between our legs? 

Well, maybe that last one is just me. Last month was hard. 

MinM

This month has been hard for me. Especially today. I went out and distracted myself with some shopping. I can't keep that up.

mrsconn23

IDK, but my Dr offered Yaz to me once upon a time and it made me the angriest bitch alive.  I knew that something wasn't right when I wanted to tell my co-worker to fck off for saying good morning to me.  Maybe it gave me PMDD. 

GBCK

this says they're the same thing:
http://www.wdxcyber.com/nmood06.htm

baconsmom

No caffeine? Jesus. Talk about rocks and hard places: Is she a raving lunatic bitch because of PMS, or because her dr made her give up caffeine and carbs to treat it? 

I find it interesting that that article doesn't suggest tracking your cycle to diagnose. It was a lot easier than having all those tests for me to figure out "Hey, this is the third month in a row that I've turned into a Gorgon two days after ovulating. Maybe that's connected!"

Sposati

I'm now to the point that I believe that PMDD does not exist. It was created by pharmaceutical companies to increase revenue. Just like ADD. It's just a little sketchy to me that the number of diagnoses of ADD skyrocketed when pharmaceutical companies came out with medication for it.

baconsmom

Oh, Spos, it exists. I don't think you need anything to treat it, necessarily, but this is not something that someone just made up one day. It's real, and it's completely irrational, and YOU KNOW IT IS WHILE IT'S HAPPENING, which is terrible. 

It's like watching a movie of yourself being absolutely batshit insane. You wonder why, and then do the math in your head, and then eat some french fries in a Frosty and feel momentarily better. Until the next person fails to blink or tries to write a check at Target or your husband leaves his socks on the floor or something, and then it's right back to RAGE. 

I'm not kidding when I say last month was bad. I literally stormed out of my house - slamming doors and all - because my husband asked why I was grumpy. 

The other 20 days of the month I'm a happy person. Snide but happy. I roll with things. But the 10 days between ovulation and my period are hell for all of us. The easy months are when I have physical symptoms only - fatigue so bad I can't get out of bed, or breast pain so severe that I sleep in underwires. The bad months are when I get grumpy and angry and mean and I just stay there, like some sort of ab-psych holding pattern from hell. Even when I don't take it out on H or Bacon - and mostly I don't - it's still pretty miserable to listen to me scream at the news or every other car on the road or, hell, the pork chops that don't brown right. 

The only options are psych meds, which just feel like overkill to me, and BC, which I have moral issues with. So I don't know who's making money on this - BC makers, maybe? I can't imagine anyone putting up with the side effects of psych meds just for 10 measly days every few months. 

MrsSilverwolf

I"m with msconn on this, when I was on yaz it made my PMS symptoms so much worse.

It also made me bleed for like 2 months straight. I swear, I never really had a full on period those last 2 months but just spotted a little everyday. It was really frustrating and what made me finally decide to get off of it.

Also, low and behold there's all these lawsuits out there now that it can cause gallbladder issues and guess what I had taken out about 6 months later? Yup, my gallbladder.

I know these weren't related to your question per se, but I would definitely think of the other consequenses here too. Or, at the very least make some pros & cons lists of yaz vs the psych meds.

GBCK

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[QUOTE]I'm now to the point that I believe that PMDD does not exist. It was created by pharmaceutical companies to increase revenue. Just like ADD. It's just a little sketchy to me that the number of diagnoses of ADD skyrocketed when pharmaceutical companies came out with medication for it.
Posted by Sposati[/QUOTE]

well, on some level...duh--what was the point of a diagnosis before there's anything to DO about it?
I mean, that's like saying autism can't exist becaue the diagnosis is getting better/more frequent.  Hell, migraine diagnosis got more frequent once there was something besides heavy-meds to give to people who got them too.
I've seen to much PMDD to get rid of it with a shrug.

AuntFlo

Yaz just about killed me and everyone around me.   I don't have PMDD, so I'm not sure exactly why my Dr suggested Yaz for me.   It made me certifiably insane.  I hated everyone with such passion and had crazy murderous dreams. 

I haven't taken any kind of hormonal BC since.   I'm crazy enough without any kind of alterations to my chemical makeup, thank you very much.