Research PMDD...try this site:
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/adult_women/pmdd.cfm
I had the same problems, I'd start having symptoms around when I'd ovulate & they last until I started my period...I found a site where you can do a chart of your symptoms (there are several different ones), kept track, took it to my Dr. & she said I was the PMDD poster child. She strated me on Lexapro & I'm still sort of adjusting to that...this past month has been a bit better though! :o) I'd have uncontrollable jealousy (my poor husband), didn't like him or anybody for a couple weeks, including myself!
Good Luck! :o) Hope this helps!!

I get very impatient, angry when PMS starts and dont fool with chocolate, but i crave salty foods.

youve took the words out of my mouth glad im not the only one just want to be normal x

Yeah, I am with ya on the moods issues. I was diagnosed with PMDD as well about 1 1/2 yrs ago. They had me on prozac, but I am not able to take it anymore due to side effects I had with it.

One thing that I have found really helps me with the anger issues, is working out. I find that I am really nasty in the morning, I go work out and it helps me get through the rest of the day for the most part. I am still on edge, but nothing like i was before.

I also, take Evening Primrose Oil. That seems to help as well.

I ma the same way the day before ovulation. that was yesterday and i swear I said to myself, "Is it a full moon?" Nope. It was ovulation.

So Lexapro is one med...any others that are not virth control?

My drs can't decide if I should be on birth control or not, so they put me on, take me off, reapeat, repeat, repeat. Well whenever i am not on birth control and do gt my period, I become suicidal and inconsolable. I cry and cry and cry. what can I do?

YES! That is me, too! The only thing that helps to even me out is antidepressants. It took me years to just give them a try as I didn't understand how they could work for something I only felt part of each month plus I was just so short fused and angry..I didn't see that as depression. Anyway, it worked and I am a much nicer person all month now!

yeah i am here if u wanna talk1

We all need to go to an island! Uhh, I'm the exact same way and it's the most annoying thing in the world, b/c I don't know how to handle it. It's like I'm looking outside my body at the same time and see the hurtfulness, but it still doesn't matter what comes out comes out. I try to stay to myself and away from everyone even at work I just stay quiet as much as possible so I don't lash out at anyone. I wish there was an OTC drug for the mood swings. They make one for everything else! Maybe you and I can lean on each other and figure out what to do! Hugs.

me too just as the others have said i have been of pridioxin(b6) but it is not working

I knew I needed help when I literally wanted to strangle my coworker over something so stupid and dumb. I had to go and sit in my car to cool down. I never felt that overwhelming rage before and it scared me to death. Went to the Dr and that is when she diagnosed PMDD and put me on Prozac and Yaz. I take both everyday and I'm back to my old self! I really encourage you to talk to your doc and find something that works for you. There is no reason to live like this!

OMG... that's me.

It's like Dr. Jekyl and Ms. Hyde.

Embarassingly enough for me, yes, I too have had bouts of RAGE during my pmdd episodes. I had to get it under control and have been trying med after med for a few years now. The rage is gone on antidepressants/anti anxiety meds, but I still get moody and depressed. I found a HUGE link for me between extreme feelings of anger/rage and caffeine consumption. I literally can only have 1 cup of reg. coffee a day without noticing anxiety and therefore intense moodiness creeping in. Yikes. I am glad I am not alone, but sorry for all of you ladies who are dealing with this too. Add me to your friends list ladies! Angry pms'ers unite!

you are preachin to the choir here. i am so on that page. well, i was until starting yaz about four months ago, i guess five now. anyway, the pms symptoms stopped! but the bleeding didn't. i bled and bled and bled. so, after four months on that i got off to go to yasmin. the pms symptoms are back with a vengeance this month. here i sit, crying, yelling at the walls, angry, my heart beating faster and faster and just overall miserable. i hear ya sister! i feel your pain. i am not a bitch, i just have temporary insanity from PMS. i need to put that on a t-shirt. that's my life in a nutshell. if it doesn't make any sense it's cuz i am currently suffering from the bear of pms and i'm sure next week my answer would be clearer:)

acupuncture. I had it a couple of times and it made symptoms pretty much non-existent.

My head feels like it's about to explode from the stress and extreme anger that was "triggered" by an incident about an hour and 1/2 ago. Spoke and acted in manner that I wish I could take back...like all of you, it's like it has COMPLETE control of ME. Any other time of month I'm able to take on any problems very constructively.

Had other months (can count them on one hand) where PMS wasn't nearly as severe...even one month where my period arrived without any problems.

Regular excercise is big help. Staying away from caffeine, chocolate, and alcohol at this time during the end of your cycle is a must. These all aggravate "pitta" or heat in your system which just stokes the anger.

I am on a SSRI (quite low)dose, but still have the extreme PMS. I up my dose the couple weeks (when I can remember) at end of cycle.

If you can't try acupuncture go online and start doing self- Shiatsu, or acupressure a little bit every day.

Keeping your bowels 'moving' during this time is important...when energy/ stress can flow thru you rather than getting trapped inside your body and just making you tense. Google "triphala" online. I started using this to keep my usual pms constipation at bay. I read that most women experience PMS because their 'energy' is 'stuck', instead of flowing down which is what it should do this time of month. So things like acupuncture, acupressure, triphala, aim at treating the root of the cause rather than treating just the symptoms say with antidepressants. If you're on antidepressants, it'd be great to slowly start incoporating these alternatives...maybe you're system will become so in balance you won't need meds anymore!

Found rising prior to dawn each morning also helps my mood (anytime during my cycle)...balances my hormones or something...

Why am I not currently doing acupuncture myself? I'm asking myself that same question right now...