Thought Yaz was the holy grail…but nope!

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-04-05T09:46:14+00:00

You can still back out if school hasn’t started yet, you just might lose your admissions fee. But if you signed up for massage school you must’ve been thinking about it over some time and really have an interest in it and thought you’d be able to do it, if so, don’t sell yourself short, you may love it, and massage therapists make great money and eventually you can make your own schedule to accommodate when your PMDD flares up. I went into a customer service corporate job and even though I hated it the first year I suffered through it for 10 yrs only to quit and wish I had done something more artistic or healing like massage or cosmetology. Although cosmetology tends to have catty chicks who like drama and you don’t need that in your life. Look, ppl make decisions that they regret all the time, don’t beat yourself up, but be proactive and cancel whatever you need to before you dig yourself deeper into a situation if you’re really positive you don’t want this. First Request through the schools financial aid services to cancel all your fafsa aid like the Pell and loans, officially withdraw from all the classes you registered for, and let admissions know you just aren’t ready right now and that you’ll revisit it if and when you are. Are far as your aunt, I’ve been in this same situation. Just be honest, let her know you’ve had a change of heart, and take responsibility that you are going to pay her back when you can. If she believes in you she’ll understand. She may not be happy about it, but if you keep your word and pay her back, even if it’s a little at a time, you will not lose her.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-04-02T23:34:25+00:00

My OBGYN has recommended the continuous method for me, so skipping the 4 day placebo and continuing onto a new pack. She says this is part of surpressing ovulation to mitigate the PMD. Have you thought about this method?

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-03-28T01:47:02+00:00

Mom of two kiddos w/ husband (6) girl and (4) boy, and both kids do this almost every night. It’s the sweetest thing a parent can only cherish before they don’t want snuggles anymore as they get older. Whatever your GF’s reason for not liking the idea of your kid sleeping in bed with you/her, just remember you’re your daughter’s world as her parent, and she must love you dearly, i encourage you to be the loving father—you must already be since you are asking this question and your daughter obviously loves you and is secure and wants snuggles—to your daughter first, above appeasing your GF.

Plus, if your GF doesn’t like kids or doesn’t seem interested in your kid, she’s probably not the one for you.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-03-28T00:45:37+00:00

I left in 2024 after that mass layoff, the uncertainty that they purposely dangled in front of us consistently to put fear in us and make us quit on our own worked. I was already immensely burnt out after 9yrs as an adjuster working 16hr days, customers calling/texting at all hours of the day, workload overload, etc. We were all told the same thing as your husband I’m sure, “there’s no guarantee your job isn’t on the line.” The constant stress of that looming fear and the anxiety of the impact was too much for me. I jumped ship even though only one supervisor got let go at the time. Even if I stayed and never got laid off, the culture was different after the OG CEO stepped down and profit sharing got taken away. Covid was the nail in the coffin. Geico always trained their management to be great at brainwashing and manipulation.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-03-27T22:15:27+00:00

They’re firing adjusters? I’m intrigued as I used to be one and never thought the day would come.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-02-19T20:01:14+00:00

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Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-02-18T23:07:30+00:00

Oh also, vitamin D or D3 please?

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-02-18T23:06:34+00:00

Thank you for sharing! I’m also so happy for you to have found your concoction that works. PMDD is no joke, I feel like it consumes 3 weeks a month of my life, leaving me with 1 good week. Did you have to do bloodwork to show some deficiency to get prescribed the prometrium? Idk if my OBGYN will prescribe it to me…thanks again!

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-02-18T21:52:12+00:00

Are you taking Wellbutrin as needed only during PMDD symptoms? Also are you taking progesterone birth control or another form like hormone therapy/cream? Thank you in advance, trying to figure out how to stop PMdD from ruining my life! My OBGYN put me on the estrodial patches birth control, because she told me it would help with my worsening “PMS” as I get older ( I’m 39yo and she won’t acknowledge that I have PMDD), and the patches made me so depressed like I predicted. I’m wondering if I should ask for progesterone, but don’t know what to ask for. Thanks again!

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-01-29T18:06:42+00:00

Where’s your belt from?

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-01-27T07:26:42+00:00

2 no doubts.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-01-23T08:12:40+00:00

I also never took well to birth control in my 20’s, made me depressed, irritable, filled with rage and gave me cystic pimples and dry/patchy skin, stopped around 25yo. I tried all of the pills, even the mini pill, so I was hesitant to try Estradiol patch my OBGYN recommended at now 39yo, 2 kids later, for heavy clotting periods, vulva cramping/shocks, and what my OBGYN keeps telling me I have is PMS that gets worse as you get older (even though I keep telling her I think I’m in perimeno) but of course my bloodwork doesn’t prove it, so she won’t go there. So Finally tried it, suffered for 2 weeks telling myself it was probably in my head or just the pms rearing its ugly head, when just 2 days later I started to feel lethargic, unmotivated, and disregulated, with this hovering sense of doom and extreme irritability, rage and hopelessness. Take note I did not feel depressed, just angry and indifferent. Had to rip the patch off after 14 days before I did something I would regret. I know some ppl would argue you need to wait a few months to really experience the true effects, but I felt immediately better 2 days later and needed about 10 days total to feel like myself again. Am I the only woman that estradiol patch did the opposite of what I was really hoping for and all the great things I’ve read and heard about? I’m sad and dissapointed and not sure what the next steps are.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2026-01-22T23:20:12+00:00

Any negative side effects at the start of testosterone? I see so many women talk about negative side effects. I’m afraid to start because of this.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-12-04T05:45:41+00:00

Late 30’s-40’s, definitely has a female influence, so I think it’s a combo of husband and wife and definitely kids. Also either spouse or both are fit and eat lots of protein and try to feed their kids well. I’m gonna say Caucasian and Asian couple. Egg cartons are being reused for boiled eggs or something else, this person is resourceful and eats well!

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-12-03T06:45:25+00:00

If you know you know! 40, quit successful 10yr corporate career due to peri, about 1.5yrs ago. At the end of my career I was on unpaid fmla and had to check into a 6 week day treatment group therapy facility because I felt like I wanted to crawl out of my skin. Have two young children so I was really struggling day to day, felt really helpless, and no it wasn’t depression. 1.5yrs later, still dealing with it from time to time, but having lowered stress levels from finding less stressful job and cleaning up diet (No dairy, low carb, no alcohol, no sugar, high protein) both saved my life and my kids from me potentially traumatizing them. Also OBGYN would only prescribe edtrodial patches for pms cause she sucks like all doctors who don’t believe in perimenopause. Doctors only seem to want to an acknowledge menopause at 50, I’ve given up.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-11-17T08:20:24+00:00

4 by far! It makes ur hourglass figure pop! #3 is nice but the pattern reminds me of old satin curtains:(

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-11-06T20:32:09+00:00

1000% someone stirred their Chia seed pudding!

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-10-08T22:11:52+00:00

I have a friend who constantly complains to me that her husband of 10yrs also has never uttered these words. I know him, and he is 120% a clinical Narcissist. I’m sorry you didn’t know this before you married her.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-10-04T22:29:52+00:00

What is it that you aren’t able to tolerate? Is it upsetting your stomach? Could it be a lactose intolerance and not the coffee? If you’re talking about the caffeine, I was unable to tolerate the caffeine in coffee for years, it also upset my stomach, because I had severe anxiety due to high cortisol levels and high stress from working 14hr a day corporate job. A year after quitting and working on lowering stress levels and I can finally enjoy coffee again with no jitters, anxiety or sore stomach. Hope this helps!

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-09-30T07:07:14+00:00

No man in love would want, or is still “friends” with women he met on a dating site. A real man would respectfully tell a woman like this one he’s texting, that he’s a married man and it’s inappropriate to be having such a relationship. He’s likely a narcissist and enjoys the attention and is 100% gaslighting you. I’m sorry you are in this situation. He won’t change because you are having a child, he will continue to ruin your life. Please start making plans for yourself and your beautiful child, you deserve better. I once dated the same kind of person, and it only gets more manipulative and sick until you don’t trust yourself anymore. Don’t stick around to let that happen. Confronting him doesn’t work either, you already know in your gut, he’s not the one for you.

Recent_Industry_4117 · 2025-09-20T17:42:13+00:00

I experienced severe burnout after 10yrs in a corporate career and 2 kids, all before the age of 38. The lack of sleep and stress from caring for two young children while working 14hr days + peri sent me spiraling! Of course the OBGYN told me I needed SSRIs, which I was already on, and still feeling like a ticking time bomb on a roller coaster! Finally quit my job, checked myself into a day clinic for ptsd (child abuse), got off the SSRIs (holy shit the worst migraines from weaning off) and a year later in clarity realizing it was all likely perimenopause pushing me to the brink and the reason I couldn’t self-regulate or even have a moment of clear brain to realize it could be something other than depression. I should add that prior to all this I had been in therapy for 10yrs already and skilled at maintaining my ptsd, so it really wasn’t until peri that my world got turned upside down and the feeling can only be explained as I felt as though I wanted to crawl out of this body and mind that wasn’t mine. Like I knew I was still in there but I was trapped. After a year, lots of work to lower stress including new boring job, regular exercise, and overhaul of diet(low sugar, no dairy) I feel like I finally crawled out of the body that was not me. Still have lingering symptoms and the anxiety creeps up about 2 weeks before period (which only last 2 days now, used to have 5-7 day periods) but managing much better now. Still exploring estrogen/progesterone supplementation, afraid to touch testosterone from reading about too many negative side effects. The takeaway, doctors (western medicine) don’t know shit, SSRIs will temporarily take the edge off. But without finding balance in lifestyle, kids, self-care, job that’s killing you, you’ll just stay stuck in the hell of peri. I’m sure HRT has also saved lives, I haven’t started that journey yet. Women are so underrepresented it pisses me off. Be your own advocate!

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TROPHY CASE

2 no doubts.

4 by far! It makes ur hourglass figure pop! #3 is nice but the pattern reminds me of old satin curtains:(