Women controlled by menstrual cycle?

[Jackal]

Are women totally controlled by their menstrual cycles?

I used to get angry at this notion. But I feel like my mind is so different week to week. And I feel I am on an endless, emotional cycle like a merry-go-round.

And I feel insane/pissed off about trivial things one week and a week later the same things don't bother me at all. I feel I have different personalities almost. I have one week a month that I'm a person that I wish I could feel like all the time. Then she's gone.

Everything just goes around and around, sexual urges, crazy thoughts, depression, clear head, messed up head, happiness with everything, hating everything.

My husband thinks all women are crazy because of this. He's not playing the typical male guy, he's really thought about it.

Your thoughts???

[Herr Lipp]

I was thinking about this the other day. Whenever my girlfriend was "on", I couldn't mention it at all in relation to her mood. She got really pissed off and point blank refused that it had anything to do with it, when usually she's a really reasonable person and stuff! It was a vicious cycle if I said I thought she was wrong though, so I often didn't! I'm not one for rocking the boat if I can help it.

[In Dust and Ashes]

Originally posted by Jackal
Your thoughts??? ]

hormones suck.
womenhood sucks.
in my dreams, I'm a man.

[Kinbote]

I'm not sure it matters why women are raving fucking loons, as long as we all agree that they are raving fucking loons.

[ramblingrose]

Ooh, Allison, it's like you read my mind. I'm quite lucky in that I don't get really irrational and horrible, but there's a few days every month where I will cry at the drop of a hat. I can't watch anything on television without me either crying because it's sad or crying because I like it. I'm quite good at containing it, but sometimes I have to go sit in my room with a cup of tea and read some true-life magazine like Chat or something to have a proper weeping session. I'm quite sentimental anyway, but I find it really embarrassing so I try very hard to conceal it. To be honest I find the physical symptoms more annoying but some months I get the odd day where I seriously want to kill myself because the world is SO sad. I also get confused more easily when I'm due and become even less articulate and logical than normal. And this post is betraying whereabouts in my cycle I am.

On the subject, what are people's experiences of menstrual cycles synchronising in groups of women who live or work closely? Me and my childhood best friend got our first period on exactly the same day, which I find a bit spooky.

[Jackal]

Hey! I have that crying thing too, I do try to hide it.

My friend and I's cycles are in sync, pretty weird!

Kinbote-:lol: I feel sorry for guys.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Jackal

Kinbote-:lol: I feel sorry for guys.

I sort of agree, once an ex said something silly and I started crying, and he couldn't understand how it wasn't his fault, it was the fault of oestrogen or something. But it is really irritating if someone's being a twat and you tell them off and they start going on about it being the "time of the month". I'm much less likely to be irritable or cross if it is, I'll probably just mumble something about puppies and wander off claiming I've got something in my eye.

[El Loto]

My girlfriend is a lot easier to annoy when it's her time. When I say easier to annoy I don't mean I do it on purpose. I would say we probably argue more around her time also. Men have no shit to worry about compared to women. Is it hard to be a woman?

[Spaced]

:lol:How topical. My girlfriend and I had an argument last weekend, and she was like "you shouldn't have bought it up this week"! She's usually not that bad, but I do have to mind what I say.

[Spaced]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
On the subject, what are people's experiences of menstrual cycles synchronising in groups of women who live or work closely? Me and my childhood best friend got our first period on exactly the same day, which I find a bit spooky.

That's quite common. I think it's due to pheromones or something to that effect.

[Squirrel]

Is it even possible to choose not to let something control you? I mean, if you have the choice, then... yeah. I don't even know what the point of saying that was. :(

[Jackal]

I don't choose it. If I had a choice I would be normal all the time. That's like saying, "I would never let my body get cancer."

Im not a big vagina that goes around whining or complaining or talking about either. I never mention it unless my husband asks me about it.

[i]

My thoughts are "yes they are". The most obvious evidence: mothers just after menopause.

Men are controlled by their hormones too but I guess testosterone levels change a lot more gradually and are relatively consistent over the months, if not years.

[Herr Lipp]

Testosterone is a much more dangerous hormone to be riding a crest of a wave on, I reckon. Like it oculd give you the guts to go and bitchslap a 20 stone beast, for example.

[kendra]

Originally posted by i
levels change a lot more gradually and are relatively consistent over the months, if not years.

What? Men are emotionally volatile like...hmm...ALL THE TIME. :D

[Herr Lipp]

yeah but most don't cry about it and eat enough chocolate for 3 days in one tear-filled evening.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Jackal
Im not a big vagina that goes around whining or complaining or talking about either.
That provoked a scary but comical mental image.
And to answer Euan's question, yep, "sometimes it's hard to be a woman".

Before anybody gets cross I'm not saying that it's all cake and sparklers being male.

[Jackal]

YIKES!

I resisted the opportunity to be disgusting here, since I should have a sense of maturity.

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Jackal
YIKES!

I resisted the opportunity to be disgusting here, since I should have a sense of maturity.

We don't love you for your "sense of maturity". Please be disgusting.

[In Dust and Ashes]

Originally posted by Herr Lipp
Testosterone is a much more dangerous hormone to be riding a crest of a wave on, I reckon. Like it oculd give you the guts to go and bitchslap a 20 stone beast, for example.

women actually have more testosterone in their bodies then men do, but we also have enough estrogen to balance it out.

and by the way, boys in puberty are AT LEAST as bad as women if not more extreme. mental health is rather reliant on consistancy.

[El Loto]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
That provoked a scary but comical mental image.
And to answer Euan's question, yep, "sometimes it's hard to be a woman".

Before anybody gets cross I'm not saying that it's all cake and sparklers being male.

The only problem modern males appear to have to deal with is trying to get laid a million times a week and pay child support. Gone are the days of chivalry. Everyone at school sleeps around though. Especially one bird who is as wide as she is tall and all the twats call her a mink but they are the ones that shag her. Her mate is supposed to have a really slack vag too.

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
Before anybody gets cross I'm not saying that it's all cake and sparklers being male. Well, I brought cakes and sparklers.

[Static Split Screen]

I don't think I normally get PMS, but when I was on Depo Provera, good lord. Poor Craig.

[Jackal]

I saw a commercial for "Seasonal" or whatever. You go 3 months without a period!! That just doesn't sound safe.

[kendra]

Originally posted by Herr Lipp
yeah but most don't cry about it and eat enough chocolate for 3 days in one tear-filled evening.

I don't cry or eat chocolate jerkface.

[kendra]

Well, maybe A piece.

[negatifzeo]

Originally posted by Jackal
Are women totally controlled by their menstrual cycles?

I used to get angry at this notion. But I feel like my mind is so different week to week. And I feel I am on an endless, emotional cycle like a merry-go-round.

And I feel insane/pissed off about trivial things one week and a week later the same things don't bother me at all. I feel I have different personalities almost. I have one week a month that I'm a person that I wish I could feel like all the time. Then she's gone.

Everything just goes around and around, sexual urges, crazy thoughts, depression, clear head, messed up head, happiness with everything, hating everything.

My husband thinks all women are crazy because of this. He's not playing the typical male guy, he's really thought about it.

Your thoughts???

Any person's actions are reactions to stimuli, hormones, and instincts. It seems like women are on a hormonal roller-coaster, and thus exhibit quite a bit of emotional variance. This makes them appear(or demonstrates that they are) insane. Of course, men do the same thing. We act like animals when it comes to getting laid, we act territorial over our women and families, and compete with other males to establish ourselves as alpha-males. Occasionally, when people decide to use their brains, there seems to be a difference between man and animal. Most of the time, however, the differences are slight.

[Static Split Screen]

Originally posted by Jackal
I saw a commercial for "Seasonal" or whatever. You go 3 months without a period!! That just doesn't sound safe.

Yeah that's what the Depo was supposed to do. It LIED.

[negatifzeo]

Originally posted by RosegardenMercury
I understand your point, but there is some bias on your part because you yourself are not female and your point unfortunately seems to portray a sexist opinion(I'm just saying, I'm sure this is not the case here). Although I agree that several women do go through this, it is not just to state it that way, not all women exhibit such behaviours. Perhaps those who suffer such erratic mood swings which may result in unecessary outbursts of emotion, may have more psysiological reasons?


A generalization is a generalization. We both know there are no absolutes. You're right, I am sexist, because there is a definite difference in the behavior of men and women. I think as boys and girls mature, the behaviors of each sex may drift towards more neutral ground, but in the younger years boys and girls both act insane.

[Leela]

Originally posted by Jackal
I saw a commercial for "Seasonal" or whatever. You go 3 months without a period!! That just doesn't sound safe.

Plus I like knowing I'm not pregnant.

When I was in my high school psychology class I was reading this article about how PMS may be blown out of propotion...there was a study that showed that women felt their PMS was a lot worse than it really was (they were intereviewed like a week or two after their period or something like that)

I don't really believe it but that's just because I get so insane during PMS/period time

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by Nymphadora
Plus I like knowing I'm not pregnant.



Sorry, but bleeding when you're on the pill or contraceptive injection doesn't mean you're not pregnant, it's not a real period. You should bleed every few months though to keep the lining of your womb healthy, otherwise it's fine to take the pill without a break. My boss told me this the other day so it's quality information! I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me on medical matters y'see.

[Telegram Sam]

this is silly.

coming soon: "Humans controlled by diurnal motion of the Earth?"

[ramblingrose]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
Sorry, but bleeding when you're on the pill or contraceptive injection doesn't mean you're not pregnant, it's not a real period. You should bleed every few months though to keep the lining of your womb healthy, otherwise it's fine to take the pill without a break. My boss told me this the other day so it's quality information! I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me on medical matters y'see.

NB "my boss" as in "consultant gynaecologist".

[Leela]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
Sorry, but bleeding when you're on the pill or contraceptive injection doesn't mean you're not pregnant, it's not a real period.

So you're saying I'm pregnant right now because I'm having fake periods

[sleepy sinner]

No!
The only way the period is 'fake' is that there is no egg being released with the womb lining because the pill should stop ovulation. The hormone rundown (Placebo pills) during/before the period IS a way of checking that you will lose your womb lining as usual once the pill hormone levels run out, and no egg has implanted.

The most unlikely situation is that a minority of women may continue with 'full' periods (I've only heard of one in my life in cosmopolitan magazine so I don't THINK so) although they are actually pregnant.

The more pertinent and sound warning is that you should probably check with a doctor/pregnancy test if you skip or get a much lighter period than normal.

Otherwise, I guess it depends on your pill, but if you are pregnant the periods should stop as per usual - a sign that the womb lining is being retained after implantation or pregnancy, it is required thus you wouldn't lose it even in a 'fake' period.