STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Pepper · Kenneth Cole

PMS and getting older

Cricket · Gucci

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel the same way. In fact, I spoke to my doctor about it a couple of months ago. My PMS is worse and my cramps are killer now (I'm 32). Getting older sucks.

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

Me three - and I just spent an hour commiserating with a 33-year-old friend about killer migraines, cramps and 12-day periods. ick. what is goign on? does it make a difference if you've had children?

Elle · Hermes

Hmm, usually things like cramps are less severe once you've had kids. My PMS and period have actually gotten better over the years, but I think I'm more in tune with my body now, which means that I notice things being 'off' more than I did when I was younger

. My usual 'symptoms' are different now too - I used to get cramps and a backache. Now I don't get those, but I do feel extrememly achey, bloated, and hungry. Trade offs, trade offs.

Sunshinegirl · Kate Spade

I hear you. I'm 37 and never had pms till very recently. I'm very irritable and sometimes want to kill my husband

Once i start my period, i feel fine and love him again.

My boobs which never were sensitive feel like they are an inferno about 10 days before i'm going to start. I have really bad insomnia at a point in my cycle every month.

And yes, every now and then, i get night sweats. I wake up and the back of my neck is soaked. i thought that maybe i had too many covers on the first couple of times this happend but my friend quickly informed me that these were the dreaded night sweats.

It's so fun being a woman

bex · Chanel

wow... i had never heard this before but i am going to ask some of my 30 something girlfriends about it. i have found as i got older- my periods are practically non-existant and i have no cramping and no signs of PMS... it just has dissapeared over the years...

gypsyfreak · Coach

I'm the opposite. When I was younger, I used to get really intense cramps. Sometimes it was so bad that I was pretty much done for the day. Now, I barely even get cramps or PMS.

erin · Chanel

i'm like gypsyfreak. my cramps used to be so awful in high school that i would almost always stay home on the first day of my period. (until i got a prescription of percoset for my wisdom teeth, which i used for my period!)

the last couple years they have been bad, but nowhere near as painful as before.

flknight24 · Dooney & Bourke

erin wrote:

i'm like gypsyfreak. my cramps used to be so awful in high school that i would almost always stay home on the first day of my period. (until i got a prescription of percoset for my wisdom teeth, which i used for my period!) the last couple years they have been bad, but nowhere near as painful as before.

Erin - I laughed out loud when I read that you used percoset for cramps. Cramps can be killer and I'm sure the percoset took care of them! Why fool around with Advil when you have percoset!