Is this common?
DD weaned in August and at that point, I had been nursing for 5 years. I never suffered from PMS before I had kids, it wasn't a big deal, my cycle was regular and it just came and went.
But now, holy smokes. About a week before AF shows up, those two days are so terrible, awful I'm not sure I'm going to get through them. It is akin to the depths of the PPD I suffered after DD came along.
This month I finally realized what was up, putting two and two together and I started taking some evening primrose oil. That seemed to help a little and also the realization that this wasn't me going crazy, there has to be some hormonal reason to it.
Can you think of anything else I might do or take to help alleviate this? Would wild yam cream help? What else?
DD weaned in August and at that point, I had been nursing for 5 years. I never suffered from PMS before I had kids, it wasn't a big deal, my cycle was regular and it just came and went.
But now, holy smokes. About a week before AF shows up, those two days are so terrible, awful I'm not sure I'm going to get through them. It is akin to the depths of the PPD I suffered after DD came along.
This month I finally realized what was up, putting two and two together and I started taking some evening primrose oil. That seemed to help a little and also the realization that this wasn't me going crazy, there has to be some hormonal reason to it.
Can you think of anything else I might do or take to help alleviate this? Would wild yam cream help? What else?