Kathy said around early evening on August 14, 2007
I haven’t watched daytime television since I was in college. I was an avid One Life To Live watcher since it landed between or after classes most days and also, I had about 4 channels since most of us used rabbit ear antennae to get reception. So it was that or fuzzy Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and let’s face it, there is only so many times you can watch young Will Smith call his uncle Phil fat before it stops being even remotely funny.
My gym changed the daycare hours so I’ve been going in the afternoon where I catch up on TV while treadmilling. I don’t watch soaps or anything crazy but I had forgotten how women-oriented daytime television was. I caught a commercial for Yaz, a birth control pill for women who suffer from PMDD (as opposed to those of us with just plain ol’ PMS). The symptoms of PMDD are:
Emotional symptoms:
* Irritability
* Moodiness
* Feeling anxious/tense
* Feeling sad or depressed
* A sense of hopelessness
* Feeling worthless/guilty
* Feeling overwhelmed/out of control
* Feeling sensitive
* Having conflicts
* A diminished interest in activities
* Difficulty concentrating
Physical symptoms:
* Bloating
* Increased appetite
* Fatigue
* Muscle aches
* Headaches
* Food cravings
* Sleeping more
* Trouble sleeping
* Breast tenderness
* Breast swelling
Um. Last time I checked, most if not all of those symptoms are things every woman I know goes through. They go on to say:
The following symptoms are common to both PMS and PMDD. They are considered symptoms of PMDD if they are severe enough to actually interfere with your daily life during the 1 to 2 weeks before your period.
HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Since when do any of those symptoms NOT interfere with your day? SO if you have REGULAR PMS, your bloating, hunger, boob swelling, fatigue, back aches, bloating, headaches and other assorted pains don’t interfere with your day. Interesting. I’d love to meet the PMSing woman who isn’t wishing she were in bed with 35 bars of chocolate, Midol and a stack of movies. If you have PMS, you want to kick everyone in your path. Let’s not dress up a pig and call it a whore, shall we? I think they should hand out Yaz in cute little Pez dispensers at the checkout counter of the grocery store.
And… I have no graceful way of ending this post so… *feels awkward and runs away*
from your moms.
I’d comment on this, but I have PMS and it is interfering with my ability to leave comments on blogs. Please send chocolate, stat.
from your moms.
My headache (and *nosebleed* which is a new one to me) is almost warranting a need to go home to those 35 bars of chocolate in bed today, dammit. I feel like I’m walking on a very painful level lower than everyone around me, and I don’t know how to fix that.
Since this feeling will be gone by Friday, I’m cool with it. I’m pretty sure I don’t have the “new” disease called PMDD. Drug companies make me laugh. (In a sad way, though.)
from Philly
I just have one thing to say about the actual product....my gyn prescribed this for me at my visit last year...blahblahblah reasons, she thought it would help, and no, none of them were any of the PMDD symptoms listed above.
I took Yaz for about 3 months (figuring like everything else I needed to adjust to it) but I finally had to call her office to get something new. I would just be sitting around like an hour after any full meal (and nowhere near pill time) and get SLAMMED with hunger...and not like “Hey, ya know I could go for a little munchie”...no, no...this was “If I don’t eat something IMMEDIATELY I am going to FALL OVER AND DIE!!” kind of hungry...very inconvenient in work when you just came back from lunch, lemme tell ya!
When I spoke with the NP at the office she told me it seemed to be a very common complaint they were having with people they prescribed it to....just thought I’d share my Yaz experience
from your moms.
Wait, boob swelling? And this is a problem, why?
*ducks*
I keed.
Seriously, though, the drug companies are THE MOST PROFITABLE, BY FAR, on the planet. They make shit like this up. It’s PMS, and they’re trying to put a new spin on it to sell drugs, which according to hmw have some undesirable side effects. They’re making drugs to help PETS WITH THEIR MOODS, I swear to God. Evil, pure evil.
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