PMS Symptoms..period not due! - Women's Health Message Board

blue_eyed_girl · 04-19-2006, 10:30 AM

I have been on BC a little over a year now. About 4-5 months a go I switched for Estrostep to a generic form of Ortho Tri Cyclen. Since then, my periods have been 28 days on the dot with the following PMS symptoms: extra discharge, frequent urination, fatique, lower back pain, and mild cramping a few days before. My breasts sometimes swell, but aren't usually sore.

My last period started 3-29-06. Over the weekend, I guess the 18th, I started to get some PMS signs. Right now, my breasts feel a little bigger and are a little tender, I have a slight change in discharge, I am exremelty tired (but that could be due to my schedule and the time change), and I have some mild lower back pain. Every once in a while (maybe a few times a day) I get a pain around my ovarian/pelvic area.

My period isn't due until around 4-26. Has this happened to anyone else? Any suggestions?

THANKS!

SRMom · 04-19-2006, 02:50 PM

If you are already on BC...the best advice I have is to start taking Aleve (naproxen sodium), about a week before you are to start your period.

As I got older, my PMS started to get bad and began about a week before my period, sometimes even earlier. I had a real bad time with PMS...pain, anger, crying, etc. I tried two kinds of BC, and every other remedy you can think of...nothing helped. I finally found out I had fibroids and endometriosis and had a hysterectomy in January. Now I have hot flashes, but no more PMS!

suzisuzi · 04-20-2006, 03:12 PM

Hi, I know how u feel i get pms up to 2 weeks before my period is due. Ifeel emotionally and physically exhausted. I feel depressed though i have no reason to be. I feel like im going mad sometimes and that no one understands what i go through it would be great to talk to people with the same kind of troubles as i cant find a womens clinic anywhere, GP don't really want to know. HELP!!!!