Extra anxiety during ur period?

Hi Rb, yes this is very common not only during menstration, but also during peri-menopause starting around 35yrs.+ Women who have preiviously never had anxiety before can experience it at this stage in life for the first time. There are quite a lot of threads on this topic in the archives if you want to check them out. Some other things to try are:
Soy soy/products
increase dairy
evening primrose
exercise
These are all natural, and should be started the week before, and through the cycle for less PMS and anxiety symptoms. I hope this helps!
Take care,
Scaredy Cat

i def experience more anxiety before i get my period... i'm thinking it has to do with the hormone change? it's terrible :(

I have a very noticeable increase in anxiety before my period starts and for the first day or two after it's begun. Once I'm about halfway through my period my anxiety levels usually return to their "base level," unless something else is also going on in my life. It's a real nuisance, but I've kind of come to expect now, so I'm more prepared. I just try to tell myself that my anxiety is higher than usual and my depression is worse during those times, and that sometimes helps put me at a bit more ease. But hormones can be hard to boss around!

Its so nice to see that others are experiencing the same symptoms around their cycles! I am really trying to accept the fact that being a woman causes a lot of our anxiety due to hormonal shifts. I feel like a born again teenager having to learn about my cycles again after having babies and being off the pill. I have been reading about the process over and over and have ordered a book on Women, Hormones, & Moods. Love to hear what works for most people as I am really looking into the dietary relationship to my cycles. Ha and I am a registered dietitian! Has anyone taken Zoloft for PMS or PMDD as my docs seem to think it will help with it as well. On my second week at 150mg; and my Vitamin D level came back low so doc has me taking Vit D once/week for 8 weeks and then rechecking levels.

I was just going to start a post asking this very question. I am on my period and feel so weird, shaky, nervous and panicky for no good reason!! It has to be the hormones or something and I am peri- menopausal so that certainly doesn't help either.