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Birdie78
Germany
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 Posted - 08/27/2012 : 09:22:23
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Hi everybody,
when my pain in muscles + tendons is worse than "normal" I usually remark it in my calendar. By chance I noticed that there's always a remark about one week prior my menstruation. Currently my menstruation is very irregular (sometimes every 28 days, sometimes every 19 days, who knows...) so I didn't make the connection until I saw it in my calendar.
How can I connect this to TMS?
Perhaps some kind of hormonal imbalance due to stress causing "hyper-algesthesia"?
Ladies, who else noticed symptoms getting worse prior menstruation?
Kind regards from Germay sends Birdie |
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drh7900
USA
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Posted - 08/27/2012 : 13:12:43
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I'm not a woman...and just in case it's not clear, I do not menstruate (laugh people, it's good for the soul)...however, my wife experiences migraines that coincide with her period. For whatever that's worth.
Just speaking as a guy who has never experienced it first-hand, but has lived with and interacted with many people of the female persuasion, it's not just the hormones that run amok during that time...the hormones can cause emotional distress which in turn could affect TMS symptoms...just a thought. Or perhaps (in true TMS-form consideration) it's the emotional burden of the process which can lead to a more exaggerated release of hormones?
But certainly don't take my word for it...I'm a guy who is not a doctor lol.
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balto
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Posted - 08/27/2012 : 20:21:38
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I'm also not a woman, but I am married to one. 
I'm not sure how long you have been marking you calendar when the pain is worse, but I thought by doing so it could conditioned your body. Somehow you body's hormonal changes would signal your mind to increase the pain level just about a week prior to time.
Also, doing that I think would "help" your mind focus more on the pain symptoms instead of on how to get rid of it.
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mala
Hong Kong
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Posted - 08/27/2012 : 22:05:10
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The bleeding is real, the cramps are real, the craving for sugar is real, the fluid retention is real. Hormones do affect us & they always will. It is not uncommon for aches & pain to increase before or around that time. As you grow older the fluctuations in levels of hormones increase.
Accept ii as just that.
Mala
Honestly, I sometimes really get fed up with my subconscious. It's like it's got a mind of its own.
Alexei Sayle
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