When my doctor suggested that excessive menstrual bleeding was the source of my iron deficiency, I scoffed. Two days of super max heaving bleeding, three days of moderate bleeding, a few days of spotting, right? That’s just how it’s always been with me so I never questioned it. It turns out that I was bleeding too much, for too long, and that bleeding like a mother fucker for the first two days of my period was overkill and depleting my iron.

In the about page of this blog I boldly declare that I recovered from PMDD two years ago. Technically speaking this is correct, for a period of about two years I have not had PMDD, but lately I’ve been feeling an unwelcome sense of de ja vu that is, just quietly, freaking me the fuck out. Many PMDD-like signs have resurfaced during the course of my last few periods, sending off red flags in my mind which I’ve cautiously been monitoring. I am unsure how to decipher what is going on in my head right now. One thing I do know for certain though is that “the switch” is back.