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I just got my period, for the third time in the last month.

I've been exhausted for no reason and depressed. I thought it might be because I was eating less, except I've also been gaining weight.

I've been grumpy and irritable and feeling irrational. I've also been achey and had some weird stomach aches.

I cried while

metalana scrounged up some menstrual supplies. Part of it was from frustration with my body. Part of it was relief: it explains what I've been experiencing, and I no longer have to feel like I'm going crazy, or like if I eat more food I'll gain more weight, but if I eat less I'll be tired and depressed.

I'm also likely quite iron deficient at this point. Must eat lots of iron.

Anyway, for those who have been wondering, now you know why I've been depressed and irritable and so forth.

Current Mood: blank

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53218

A new birth control pill, being released sometime this year in the US, which treats the mood side effects of PMDD (a severe form of mood-disorder PMS), yielding results comparable to those of antidepressants in other studies.

I need to look up the hormones in this pill... some hormones are harder on women with PCOS than others.