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HORMONAL IMBALANCE - girls???
I understood that in the 2 big flare ups with OCD (now and 8 years ago) I had problems with my period! Does anyone else have it??? Can it be related????
I understood that in the 2 big flare ups with OCD (now and 8 years ago) I had problems with my period! Does anyone else have it??? Can it be related????
Hi I can relate to that. My mental health spirals with PMS and has spiralled out of control at times with the peri menopause. I am not an expert but female hormones are definitely a trigger for me. Getting them under control is a constant battle, and unfortunately it involves taking everything you enjoy out of your diet ☹️. Hope you manage to sort it out
@shelley5791 Wow! So interesting. Maybe that’s why it happens. Thank you. Hope you are doing ok
Oh definitely! Mines at its worst when I’m ovulating and sometimes I’ve missed periods due to severe OCD.
@Sadie1994! That’s exactly it. How do you handle it?
@confused writer I actually started taking the pill to stop ovulation and regulate my periods.
@Sadie1994! And did it help??
@confused writer Yes 100% for me but for some people it can exasperate anxiety so it really depends on your body
Yup… I got PCOS and it has been a journey to say the least. I see an endocrinologist and she usually checks my thyroid and sugar levels. I think Ima have her do blood test next time on my progesterone and adrenal glands because we haven’t checked those in about a year. Surprisingly, i react well and have a good cycle when taking diabetes medication. Don’t know why! But it regulates a lot of things and I do have to take vit D because my levels are always low. Would recommend you see one as well for some insight!
@Anonymous That’s what I want to do!!!! Thank you so much. My sugar is ok. Thyroid too. But I don’t get my period on time
@Anonymous I have pcos too
@confused writer It sucks man. I am convinced it is what flares up my OCD as well. My levels are usually good too besides my vit D and for some odd reason my CO2. Upon further research, low CO2 levels can be a cortisol issue. But before I go down that explanation spiral, I’ll save you from it 😂 but yes! O highly recommend seeing an endocrinologist, they are the hormone specialist! And advocate for yourself even if your OCD tells you otherwise!
So much yes! I’m just after stopping birth control after give or take 10 years. I can’t ever remember having such a spike in OCD. I’m trying to navigate it as best I can but my oh my has the last two months been hard 😫 thinking of you and hoping this rut passes for you soon! 🙏🏼
@Anonymous 💭 Hope you’ll do better!!! Are you kind of depressed too? Or only anxious?
@confused writer Just really anxious, but I know as the hormones settle so too with my OCD. We’ve just got to be patient and trust the cycle. I sometimes tell myself “it’s not me, it’s my OCD” which often helps when I’m spiralling!
@Anonymous 💭 yes!
Hey guys! So I struggle with OCD, especially harm, relationship and moral stuff and I am somewhat recovered now. However, my current girlfriend has started showing signs of OCD but it’s abou5 something I don’t know much about so I wanted to see if anyone on here had thoughts about it. She is constantly thinking about food (when to eat it, what is healthy, what is too much, what is too little) and controls the thoughts by giving in and controlling her entire day around food. She don’t really know the feeling of being full. She never starved herself and always eats, but then she feels extremely guilty afterwards. Her thoughts do have to do a lot with her body image and not gaining weight but also not losing any either. Does this sound like ocd or an eating disorder?
It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
Does anyone Else’s ocd flare up bad when in stressful life situations? I was doing amazing and now that I’m having some drama with my life it seems to have come back with a vengeance. Anyone else?
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