u/SeaPianist6641

Hi all!

Lately I’ve been having a surprisingly difficult time around my periods, and I genuinely didn’t expect it to affect me this much 😭

Not just cramps - but no energy to work, brain fog, feeling emotionally overwhelmed, struggling to focus at work, becoming weirdly sensitive/anxious, wanting to isolate, etc. Some months it genuinely feels like everything becomes ten times harder for a few days.

What’s been frustrating is that when I started looking into this properly, I realized how little nuanced conversation or trustworthy information exists around women’s hormonal health beyond very surface-level “period cramps” discussions. Also, my gyanec just brushed it off.

It sent me down a huge rabbit hole around PMS/hormonal health and now I’m really curious about how other women experience it.

I’d honestly love to know:

• What symptoms hit you the hardest emotionally/mentally/physically?
• Does PMS genuinely affect your work, relationships, confidence, productivity, etc in a meaningful way?
• Have you actually found anything that genuinely helps?
• Have you spent money trying to fix/manage it? Was it worth it?
• Do you feel like we just normalize suffering through this because there aren’t many trustworthy solutions?

Would genuinely love to hear other women’s experiences because I feel like we don’t talk about this enough 💛

Hi all!

Lately I’ve been having a surprisingly difficult time around my periods, and I genuinely didn’t expect it to affect me this much 😭

Not just cramps - but no energy to work, brain fog, feeling emotionally overwhelmed, struggling to focus at work, becoming weirdly sensitive/anxious, wanting to isolate, etc. Some months it genuinely feels like everything becomes ten times harder for a few days.

What’s been frustrating is that when I started looking into this properly, I realized how little nuanced conversation or trustworthy information exists around women’s hormonal health beyond very surface-level “period cramps” discussions. Also, my gyanec just brushed it off.

It sent me down a huge rabbit hole around PMS/hormonal health and now I’m really curious about how other women experience it.

I’d honestly love to know:

• What symptoms hit you the hardest emotionally/mentally/physically?
• Does PMS affect your work, relationships, confidence, productivity, etc in a meaningful way?
• Have you actually found anything that genuinely helps?
• Have you spent money trying to fix/manage it? Was it worth it?
• Do you feel like we just normalize suffering through this because there aren’t many trustworthy solutions?

Would genuinely love to hear other women’s experiences because I feel like we don’t talk about this enough 💛