I found this helpful too. Find I need slightly more food in the 24 hours before I start, or I tend to get wobbly & dizzy.
Anything that helps with general relaxation - baths, gentle exercise especially walking in daylight.
Sometimes just acknowledging that it is my hormones making me feel awful helps. Sounds daft, but I find that reminding myself that the tearfulness, anxiety, anger etc is not 'real' even though it feels like it is makes it less difficult. I'm not naturally someone who cries a lot, so when I started crying for no reason (couple of days before my period in the past, but since peri-meno it can hit any time
![Angry >:(](https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/Smileys/extended/angry.gif)
), at first I got really upset at being upset! Now I tell myself it's not me, it's the menopause and it puts it into perspective.