* Please know that everything I write at Life w/PMDD applies to my life and my opinions. My experiences and choices may be similar to those of other women with PMDD, but I can’t speak on behalf of anyone other than myself. I do think that the sharing of individual stories creates a bigger story about what it is like to be a woman with PMDD and that this coming together is valuable and very much needed. I am honored to be a part of it.
I have noticed that I have …

I have a dream in which I am standing in a high school. A teenage girl stands beside me and shares that she almost had to have a hysterectomy. But I was too young, she says. They found another option. Oh. I had to have a hysterectomy recently, I reply. She looks at me and in my dream there is so much space between us but we are standing right beside each other. I am suddenly afraid that she will tell the way I used to fear gossip and revealed …

My appt went awesome, man it has taken years to say that!
I saw another doc in the office at the Womens Institute, my doc got called out for surgery and I didn’t want to come back that afternoon.
He confirmed by decision and said that he completely agreed with my choice and that the ovaries must go to make a difference.
He talked with me, not at me, and found that I had exhausted all measures at this point. They don’t have anything else for me and believe it will take …

Hey everyone!
Okay as you just read the forums are now separate. Ladies, you stay at the one we have been using and Men, you now have your very own. Check it out at: Men and PMDD forum (menandpmdd.ning.com)
I hope this works out for everyone.
Stef

She sees that illness has made her more cautious. She oozes cautiousness. Everything must be planned out. Worst case scenarios must be considered and then, plans must be made for when they will happen. Not if. When . She feels the weight of her cautiousness in her daily life. Sometimes her heart moves too fast out of imagined things and what ifs. Her cautiousness means they have life insurance and a guardian for their son in case they die. They have health insurance and would have other types of insurance …