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Cold symptoms during period
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I have recurrent cold symptoms during my period. I have noticed the symptoms for about a year but for the last six months they have happened every month around the third day of my period. Symptoms include aching joints, blocked nose and headaches as well as generally feeling awful. Periods are heavy and painful with clotting for about seven-nine days. Cold Symptoms usually last 5-7days. GP tried to treat heavy periods with Tranexamic acid but I reacted with severe mouth ulcers (half tongue size) Again these ulcers would appear around day three. Now resolved by stopping the meds but heavy periods have returned. The symptoms are to regular for coincidence, can anyone help?
I have recurrent cold symptoms during my period. I have noticed the symptoms for about a year but for the last six months they have happened every month around the third day of my period. Symptoms include aching joints, blocked nose and headaches as well as generally feeling awful. Periods are heavy and painful with clotting for about seven-nine days. Cold Symptoms usually last 5-7days. GP tried to treat heavy periods with Tranexamic acid but I reacted with severe mouth ulcers (half tongue size) Again these ulcers would appear around day three. Now resolved by stopping the meds but heavy periods have returned. The symptoms are to regular for coincidence, can anyone help?
So glad I stumbled onto this site! I'm 45 and have had irregular periods for a couple of years now. For the last 6 months or so I've noticed that I have often been getting cold-like symptoms just before my period. I have terrible sinus problems anyway, and I'm a teacher so I get colds quite often---so it took a while for me to put the pattern together. I'm feeling crappy tonight and thought I'd see if others experienced this too or if I'm just more often run-down than I thought. So glad to know that others have this weird symptom too!
I have that it is a combination of things that cause me to get sick during my period. These factors are eating healthy (mainly less sugar and less dairy), getting plenty of sleep, excersize, and taking iron. I used to get sick every single month and so I had blood work done and the only thing they found was that I had low iron. I think that doing all those things are very important because just doing one isnt enough. Also, eating organic food even though its more expensive seems like it helps as well.
I love how women are sharing their ideas here.
This started for me a couple of years ago after what seemed to be a bad case of the flu which had me in bed for a few days. I had been run down when I got it, and I had to go back to work before I fully recovered, and I think this may have meant my body never had the chance to fully deal with the virus. (Or that it was a peculiar strain of virus. It was around the time of the swine flu thing.)
After that episode I found I had flu-like symptoms before every period for several months - high temperature, sore throat, foggy in the head, maybe headachey. But when I made a definite effort to eat really well I wouldn't get it that month. If I didn't eat well, it came back.
I've just spent 2 days in bed with flu-like symptoms before my period this time, hair falling out too. I hadn't had it for a long time and forgot about it. I don't think it's coicidental that I have a lot of stressors in my life right now and that I haven't been eating too well or getting enough sleep - and relying on caffeine, which is a known hormone disruptor. But also, being laid up in bed has forced me to reassess my situation at work and in a number of other ways, and that had to happen, and my body has just made it happen. Thanks body.
In case anyone's interested, I eat pretty well - vegetarian, mostly whole food, tofu and soy always included (for the woman who thinks there may be a bad link to soy), lots of nuts and water - and I usually take multivitamins and iron tablets. I'm in my mid 30s, never had cramps or any gyn issues. No birth control (I just mistyped that as 'mirth control' - ha!), no children. I definitely find that PLENTIFUL, GOOD QUALITY orange juice has helped prevent the symptoms. Like even 2L a day when I'm heading towards premenstrual. And lots of protein, vegetables, lots of water, good oils, sleep, and a reasonable level of comfort. Then I have no symptoms at all.
I've read through most of these posts and similar pages on other websites, and my gut feeling is that for many it's possibly a viral thing which lingers and resurfaces during the point in the menstrual cycle when the immune system is weakest. I wonder if refined sugar is a common thread too. Of course I have no idea, I'm just guessing. It could be the increased levels of estrogen in the general living environment, or it could just be part of getting your period for some women.
Anyway, I'd like to suggest that people at least try healing the body through good whole food like nature intended, taking it easy when you're about to bleed, and maybe spend some of that money you would have given to specialist practicioners and pharmaceutical companies on a nice massage! : )
This started for me a couple of years ago after what seemed to be a bad case of the flu which had me in bed for a few days. I had been run down when I got it, and I had to go back to work before I fully recovered, and I think this may have meant my body never had the chance to fully deal with the virus. (Or that it was a peculiar strain of virus. It was around the time of the swine flu thing.)
After that episode I found I had flu-like symptoms before every period for several months - high temperature, sore throat, foggy in the head, maybe headachey. But when I made a definite effort to eat really well I wouldn't get it that month. If I didn't eat well, it came back.
I've just spent 2 days in bed with flu-like symptoms before my period this time, hair falling out too. I hadn't had it for a long time and forgot about it. I don't think it's coicidental that I have a lot of stressors in my life right now and that I haven't been eating too well or getting enough sleep - and relying on caffeine, which is a known hormone disruptor. But also, being laid up in bed has forced me to reassess my situation at work and in a number of other ways, and that had to happen, and my body has just made it happen. Thanks body.
In case anyone's interested, I eat pretty well - vegetarian, mostly whole food, tofu and soy always included (for the woman who thinks there may be a bad link to soy), lots of nuts and water - and I usually take multivitamins and iron tablets. I'm in my mid 30s, never had cramps or any gyn issues. No birth control (I just mistyped that as 'mirth control' - ha!), no children. I definitely find that PLENTIFUL, GOOD QUALITY orange juice has helped prevent the symptoms. Like even 2L a day when I'm heading towards premenstrual. And lots of protein, vegetables, lots of water, good oils, sleep, and a reasonable level of comfort. Then I have no symptoms at all.
I've read through most of these posts and similar pages on other websites, and my gut feeling is that for many it's possibly a viral thing which lingers and resurfaces during the point in the menstrual cycle when the immune system is weakest. I wonder if refined sugar is a common thread too. Of course I have no idea, I'm just guessing. It could be the increased levels of estrogen in the general living environment, or it could just be part of getting your period for some women.
Anyway, I'd like to suggest that people at least try healing the body through good whole food like nature intended, taking it easy when you're about to bleed, and maybe spend some of that money you would have given to specialist practicioners and pharmaceutical companies on a nice massage! : )
Hi all, I actually went to the doctors today because for the last 4ish months about a week before my period is due I start to become flemmy and cough more than normal. The doctor checked me over and said that although it is a rare symptom it has been known that the change in hormones do cause these types of symptoms.
What a relief! I've had this problem for years and spoke to my doctor about it and same thing - they looked at me as if I was mad and said they'd never heard of such a thing. I'm due on tomorrow and I'm currently feeling like absolute death, like I've got flu. This has literally been going on since I was about 23, and I'm 37 now! As much as I hate to know you're all suffering, it does help to know that I'm not completely crazy and other people are experiencing the same thing. I just wish we could find a GP who understood what we're talking about and knew a way to manage it!
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