PMS 5 weeks post hysterectomy?

I'm just 5 weeks post surgery, kept both ovaries! Is it still possible to suffer PMS? This is something I didn't think to ask and today I've feeling very premenstrel. I feel like crying, at literally nothing but instead if tears falling I'm super angry at everyone and everything! I've no patients whatsoever, don't want to talk to anyone or them to me... Good lord... Is this normal? I was bad before the hysterectomy but never this bad! OMG what have I done? Please tell me this is just a glitch and will go away!

Yes, certainly it's still possible to still have PMS if you kept your ovaries. Your ovaries will still produce hormones on a monthly cycle. PMS is associated with the week during which progesterone dominates estrogen in your system. It's the week before the week in which you previously would have gotten your period.

Where you're only five week post-surgery, it's possible that your ovaries are still settling in. This month may be a one-time glitch in terms of PMS. However, if the same thing occurs next month then talk to your doc to see if anything can be done.

Myself, I was diagnosed when chronic depression at 41 and placed on an SSRI. I discovered that one of the "side effects" of the med was that it wiped out my previously horrible PMS! So I have to wonder if a low-dose SSRI would help women who aren't depressed *all* the time but who *do* have lots of trouble with mood changes due to PMS.

I warned my DH that I was probably still going to have PMS after the surgery, and I had to explain how it's the ovaries, not the uterus, that releases those lovely hormones (or withholds them, in the case of PMS). It could also be that your ovaries are still kind of in shock, and getting used to their new blood supply and everything. I had a very weepy few days not too long ago, but I seem to have settled down. I started taking Evening Primrose Oil, not sure if that has anything to do with it, but it gives me EFAs without the fish oil burps from the salmon oil I used to take!

Tinkerbell 2016, I'm almost 5 weeks post op as well and was wondering the exact same thing. I found myself feeling extremely cranky and not really depressed but just feeling nothing at all. I had extreme pms before my hysterectomy and was so hoping that crummy part of my life was over. Hopefully it is just my ovaries getting used to everything. Best of luck to all of us experiencing this . ��

If youre noticing these symptoms for a certain # of days like you did prior to surgery, then Id say it is occurring w your cycle... Just know that the blood supply to the ovaries has been severed & it may result in reduced function of the ovaries, which means reduced estrogen. If youre noticing your symptoms daily, then its reduced estrogen due to surgery, not cycles.. This can be the case if youve retained your ovaries or if they were removed..

Talk to your Dr.. If your Dr & you are OK w Soy, then try that as it increases estrogen within the body. I have retained my ovaries but I have reduced estrogen that Im controlling w soy & essential fatty acids. Salmon, avocado, flax oil, olive oil, sardines, etc which is similar as a supplement like primrose oil, fish oil & flax oil.

Thanks all, PMS/PMT did seem to coincide with my previous cycle and is still lingering, I'm up one minute down the next, it's very frustrating, not helped by the fact that I'm in quite a bit of pain, on my right side, very low down, eases when I rest but flares up as soon as I start to move around, no idea what's causing it debating a visit to the walk in centre or at least GP tomorrow. Any suggestions ladies? Nothing to do with my bowel that I do know, not right place to be bladder but is made worse by uriniating, I do have a pelvic kidney in the same area? But it's also very close to one of my incisions! I've also kept my ovaries. Thinking alsorts and getting myself in a right old tizz with it. I go back to work next week, I really could do without a set back! Feeling really stressed again...