Thread: Pms-like symptoms

Okay, I'm nowhere near my period and I take birth control..low dose Ortho-Tricyclen. Anyways, all this week I've been experiencing PMS-like symptoms. Examples include bloating, even though I drink around 6 liters of water a day, acne, and sluggishness. This is most likely some sort of hormone related condition, but can any shed any light on the subject?

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Okay, I'm nowhere near my period and I take birth control..low dose Ortho-Tricyclen. Anyways, all this week I've been experiencing PMS-like symptoms. Examples include bloating, even though I drink around 6 liters of water a day, acne, and sluggishness. This is most likely some sort of hormone related condition, but can any shed any light on the subject?

Get a complete thyroid panel (TSH, free T3, free T4, thyro-globulins) done along with an iodine level. Underactive thyroids are very under-diagnosed and many small tumors are missed. Also look at what supplements you may be taking, ephedrine and caffine (E/C stack) can and does mess with thyroid levels.

The first symptoms of thyroid problems that I had started out like mild PMS and I was also on low dose ortho tricylclen. What started as mild PMS (bloating, tired, weight gain, mood swings especially depression) increased from mild to severe within months to the point I thought at the age of 29 I was starting early menopause. I went from a week and a half of "PMS" to 3 weeks of "PMS". I gave new meaning to zero to bitch in less than 8 seconds. I tried taking Stacker 3 with no effect, if anything it made it worse. Long story short, I had a cancerous tumor on my thyroid that was causing my T3 and T4 to drop as well as screwing up other hormone levels. I ended up kissing my thyroid goodbye.