Ladies! Do your symptoms ever increase before/during your period?

Since I have been more focused on TMS healing modalities and following along with them since October, my brain has been fighting back as much as it can. It doesn’t scare me as I know what it is. I have been going through quite a few symptoms imperatives/add on symptoms since losing my fear of my original pelvic pain symptoms. Currently I am experiencing some significant dizziness after having a weird sore throat that I didn’t give any attention to haha

however! I am curious because since beginning my TMS journey, I have always noticed that symptoms seem to increase before and during my period. Whether it was a flare in pelvic pain, or migraines headaches, back pain, flu-like/cfs symptoms and now dizziness! It always seems to get a little more intense during this part of my menstrual cycle. I’m inclined to think it has something to do with hormones but I hesitate with that idea because I know it could most likely be a sneaky belief my brain is hoping I’ll latch onto. I feel like hormones get blamed for a lot of things that turn out to be TMS in the end.

so, I ask the ladies/afab peoples, do your symptoms seem to increase before/during your period??

 

I don't have pain symptoms. But in recent years, I definitely notice skin, gastrointestinal, and big mood swings etc. before period. They seemed to improve once the period started and post period week was typically the better week. I think it is mindbody related but I haven't found many books describing that since most mindbody doctors are men and they don't experience it first hand.

I believe that women's hormones are directed by the unconscious emotions and can generate all kinds of symptoms unique to women. The underlying human emotions are similar, anger, sadness, fear, shame, etc.

Another thing I come to realize is that people with low ACE scores may download certain emotional and behavior patterns they don't even know, which could generate a lot of suppressed or repressed emotions later in life. The little t build up especially for people growing up in the so called middle class families where basic physical survival, care, education, entertainment etc. is provided.


When life stressor and dramatic events happen, they seem to cope but then the patterns take over and TMS may kick in.