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Sorry about such a fun topic!! Was just wondering if anyone's pain goes through the roof about a week before their period or during. I have had pms since having my kids but now with the ra I am a Kids are so blunt and honest! What a cutie!

so sorry, reegie... but keep those legs okay?? There is a definite correlation. We have discussed this issue before and many people experience what you are, so you're not imagining it. I would chop my legs off gladly if I could get some cool new bionic ones. Never liked the way they looked, and now they don't treat me very well - so if bionics become available, goodbye legs, LOL!

I have discovered that Aunt Flo can be subdued with naproxen, chocolate, and quiet time. And her visits are shorter and less painful when I'm diligent about taking my fish oil. Aunt Flo is my least favorite relative these days. I will be 50 soon, and she has been visiting me since I was 9. She can be an annoying witch. Part of me really wants to see her drop me from her visitation list, but I also worry that when she drops me from her list all kinds of health issues will arise.

Do any perimenopausal women feel that way?

I'm 46 and for the last few years Aunt Flo hasn't been visiting me as regularly as she had been. She'll ignore me for 3 or so months then she'll stop in for a short visit. I don't know if she still comes out of guilt or what....but I wish she'd just stay away. I've really grown to dislike her.

I don't notice a connection with my menstrual cycle and pain though.

Her visits tend to put me in a bad mood, and when I'm in a bad mood everything seems to p!ss me off. I don't think that the objective RA pain level increases in my case, though. I am not sure RA related or not. I know that mine got so much more painful after having my tubes tied. So that's what I blame mine on. With the RA it seems as bad as it's always been since the tubal. So really I am not sure. I just find it odd that after the tubal is when they became so terrible.Aunt Flo is demanding a chocolate shake today. Dunno if I'm going to give in or not... dairy always gives me a bellyache. But sometimes you just got to go with it. Don't you find that if you ignore her requests and try to eat something else, you keep trying to find something to shut her up, but nothing works until you give her what she wants? I end up eating twice as much than I would if I just gave her what she wanted in the first place!I never had pms (husband thanks me for that), but during the cycle, my body (since a kid) swelled up and sometimes pulled my back etc.

My cycles have been so bad since the first one that i would miss 2 days each month from school or work because i couldn't move from bed due to too much pain. I would hurt front and in my back, so a sandwich of heating pads and lots of ibuprofen was used.

Right now i get a shot to stop my cycles, but this month i had one (even though i shouldn't have) and it was horrible. I tried ibuprofen and ultram for pain but only naproxen took care of it.

I bleed like an SOB for 10 days! Nothing interrupts my cycle I am like clock work! 2 years ago November I had an endometrial ablation & myomectomy because Aunt Flo was like a faucet no lie for 2 to 3 of the 10 days. I wouldn't even have time enough to slap a pad on efore bleeding all over the floor. I became anemic. It lessened for a while but now every month it gets heavier again. Did anyone else ever have that surgery and did it work for good?Well, I was going to post about this, sort of. Is any one on enbrel and have extremely excessive ucky periods. I have noticed my time went from 5 days to 10 or 12 days. It's awful and I noticed on sheet that list the side effects that it says something about ability to clot so just wondering. Does this happen to anyone?Oh that sucks!!!I have PCOS so for most o my life I would have vistits about 2 to 3 times per year. I never complained. Every time I went to see the Dr about this I was told it was just because I was over weight. (I was even told this when I was only 20 Lbs over) I was finally diganosted with PCOS two years ago I am 41.

Since starting on Mtx I am clock work. right down to the day and it is always around for 9 days. I miss not having a visit. LOL Even though i know it is healthier for me.

I wasn't on Enbel when I had my problem- I didn't even have RA yet. I guess the heavy long periods are another wonderful side effect of aging.

I can't imagine a 10 day period. I think 5 -7 is more than enough. I used to have a 3 day on Loestrin 24 but had to stop that. I do get pms for sure. Swelling would get a bit worse but more than anything I think my pain threshold as well as my patience would lessen. Bring on the chocolate

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Jenny

Loestrin rocks...I don't correlate my period with any RA symptoms. About 1 1/2 years ago my periods became heavier and I was put in the loestrin because my gyn thought I may be peri menopausal (I was 44). Now that I'm having hypothroidism, I am beginning to think it may be that instead. I'm "that" age. Going thru menopause but occasionally have a very light period. I hurt worse then too, especially my low back. Since I have infrequent periods I often fail to see the signs that I'm going to have one, I'll be moody for a few days, then have spotting for a few days.. I get an AHA moment and think to myself , OH that's what all that crying and b!tchiness was about![QUOTE=wendyr]I'm "that" age. Going thru menopause but occasionally have a very light period. I hurt worse then too, especially my low back. Since I have infrequent periods I often fail to see the signs that I'm going to have one, I'll be moody for a few days, then have spotting for a few days.. I get an AHA moment and think to myself , OH that's what all that crying and b!tchiness was about![/QUOTE]