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[toffeecushion]

I am still getting regular periods, although they are now every 24 days.  I have noticed that I seem to have started experiencing pms type symptoms. I have started making a note of it and for the last couple of months I have had a headache the day before my period and feel dizzy and light headed the day my period starts.

Anyone else found this?

[CLKD]

True PMS is only before the bleed begins so symptoms should ease once the period gets going.  I hated that headache 24 hours before  but found that if I took Anadin or Nurofen immediately it went, otherwise I would get queasy. 

How is your diet?  Being dehydrated or hungry can cause that sort of dizziness ……...

[Taz2]

I've always felt like this before and during a period toffee - I just thought it was part and parcel of having periods 

Taz x

[toffeecushion]

Maybe I've been lucky up till now.  It has only just started in the past 6 months or so.  I realised last month that it was happening each month and sure enough it happened again this month.

[CLKD]

I didn't have full PMS until in my mid-30s.  I took the Pill because of heavy, clotted, painful periods for 11 years before being sterilised.  That's when the problems began 

[Hurdity]

Hi toffeecushion

You have been lucky only to have just started getting these pms symptoms - and sorry to hear they are bothering you.

Unfortunately pre-menstrual symptoms do tend to get worse (or in your case start) during peri-menopause because the hormonal fluctuations are greater. I also used to get headaches - just before my period and these worsened when I was peri-menopausal and became migraines.  I had the dizziness you described at the start of my period too - my head didn't clear until a couple of days into my period - when progesterone levels had completely fallen, and oestrogen levels started to rise again.

There is a good article about the peri-menopause written by Dr Currie in the MM magaizne ( back number)
http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/article-perils-of-the-perimenopause.php

Hurdity x

[carrs]

Hi
I had similar experiences. I did not notice periods much when I was young, but in 40's I felt unwell on the first day, pains, couldn't see so good, worse driver for a day or two. Not really pmt, just unwell during periods.