[Sofia Bunny]

Fire and Ice > I think that you are just becoming more emotional which is not strange considering you are taking hormonally active substances. Anyway, girls are more emotional and while men tend to react with aggression when they are upset, women tend to be sad . I've been experiencing it as well and got used to it.

Don't worry about your emotions and most important don't worry that 'something' will happen, for example that you will have kind of meltdown in front of other people. The more we worry about our emotions, the more we are actually prone to feel anxious and tears are often just symptom of anxiety. Just take your emotions as they are. Sometimes they are pleasant but sometimes they are not. Except rather less probable conditions you don't have to worry.

Positive change in me was that I feel even the positive emotions more intensively. Well, it is not like explosions of emotions but very pleasant feeling when I am happy and sometimes I am more prone to have 'tears of joy'.

Maybe changing dosages of your supplements more slowly would help your brain to adjust. Maybe your are not reacting to dosage but to the pace of the change.

What helped me is to add progesterone cream. It somehow eased the extremely strong bouts of anxiety (which I had even before starting PM).

Of course if your emotions are getting over the top then lowering or withdrawing some supplements is to be considered.

Poly

Thank you very much Poly for your feedback and insight. I am feeling better now which is good. I just felt at odds with myself as I have not felt that in a very very long time. In my youth, I experienced many a mood swings, but I chalked that up to normal teens, and early twenties hormone balancing. Over time I was able to better control and suppress those emotions. Then suddenly out of the blue, just the posting of a picture was causing all this emotional build up which was very strange. It never flared up again while I was traveling, just the one day. So it was possibly just a combination of things that struck all at the right time. So, back to normal... for now.