PMS and drinking

[Breez]

PMS and drinking

aw gee- thanx My Heart!

[Accountable for Me]

PMS and drinking

OMG! Judie that is HILARIOUS! LMAO! I wish you peace and lots of Valium over the long weekend!

[Saint Jude]

PMS and drinking

Indeed Breez :goodjob: 8 months is awsome! I thought 18 days was pretty good! (And that was quite a while ago... )

Accountable, no valium. But lots of Guarana! Gotta be quik! & cheery! (with no time to eat)
"paid aerobics"

Funny thing tho... my Hubby "swears" he "suffers" more from my PMS than I ever do...Hmmm

[MyHeartIsDrenchedInWine]

PMS and drinking

Saint Jude;188493 wrote: ... my Hubby "swears" he "suffers" more from my PMS than I ever do...Hmmm

My husband is bipolar and I always think I suffer more from it than he does. It's like I'm on the recieving end, not a nice place to be.

[rottrod]

PMS and drinking

My heart,
I have the same thing as Jude....I just turned 50 so some months I have it twice and some months not at all. I take lots of L-glut during that time and it really helps.

[MyHeartIsDrenchedInWine]

PMS and drinking

Hmmm, Does the L-Glut work right away or do you have to be on it for awhile? The Kudzu doesn't seem to do anything for me. Sometimes I wonder if my drinking is just me being lazy though. If that's the case no supplement will help me.

[Prest4time]

PMS and drinking

Just a few quick thoughts...

As we all know, it is stereotype for women to cram chocolate down their throats during PMS. And they do. But for alcoholic women, it is a proven fact that we get most of our sugar from wine and alcohol rather than sweets. (The article addressed sugar as an equally dangerous addiction, especially coupled with alcohol).

So the lowdown is this. Women (like me) who dont have a fetish for chocolate or sweets -- and never have, I tend to gravitate towards drinking too much when PMS. And, I have "heard" that our bodies do not tolerate alcohol nearly as well for about 10 days surrounding our periods. When I was drinking out of control, I could always pinpoint the worst days, things I did around my period. Apparently our tolerance level drops significantly, so maybe we are drinking MORE out of craving sugar in the form of wine or something, and then our tolerance is less... what a recipe for disaster!

What a beautiful disaster we are....

[satori]

PMS and drinking

HMM - I also can confirm that it isn't just the laydees that suffer PMS!

Satori
xxx

[Deilight]

PMS and drinking

Read a book called "the wild Genie" by Alexander Pope. It's about teh "Power of Menstruation" and it explians a lot on this subject. Women do feel their addictions more, get dunk faster and have worse hangovers. There is a thread about a month ago regarding this, I gave sheshe the same advice. If you do suffer at that time of the month this book is A MUST READ!!!