Who suffers more from PMS, men or women?

Question

First of all I am using my wife's profile to ask this question (I am her husband). I recoginize that women suffer the physical cramps and discomfort as well as the emotional roller coaster however, I feel that perhaps men suffer equally by virtue of the fact that they are usaully the object of their wives hormonal rage, so it begs the question who is getting the short end of the deal.

Answer 1

THE CHILDREN
I seriously marked the calendars so the kids know when to be extra good. They don't quite know why, but they know if Dad marked the calendar then they better be extra good.

Answer 2

Hormonal rage? I can see you now, poor suffering saint that you are. You would suffer less if you tried being considerate. I know men roll their eyes and whine like babies 'cause their otherwise adoring wives are suddenly saying what's on their minds and calling a spade a spade. You have no idea what it is like but why not try a little empathy and how about being just a little kinder, a little more gentle and tender. Rub her back where it hurts and make some tea, or the like. She might cry but it will be because she married such a wonderful man and not because she married an obtuse, shallow little boy.

Answer 3

Ok, when I initially read your question the first thing that popped in my head was, "What came first, the chicken or the egg," because your question is a timeless and unanswerable as this one.

But I thought about it, and although men suffer from the outside, the woman actually suffers more because - stop and really think, really think about what it feels like to digest a box of thumbtacks through your intestines for 4 days. Or, like a squirrell is clawing and biting its way out of your stomach. And imagine, every single month of your life, becoming confused and mildly disoriented about the most mundane things. Tack on the fact that none of your clothes fit right for 1 week out of 4, don't forget the new monstrous zit on your chin, and hold down a job and an apartment and/or kids and bills and driving and everything else. This is a glimpse of what it's REALLY like.

One silver lining: my ex husband was actually able to tell when my time was coming and HE would give me a heads-up. I eventually saw a doctor about it and god meds to deal with it. And he would actually help me with the bad times. I thought he was a king for that. Step outta yourself and be her and remember it's not a personal attack on you, its just another lovely round of PMS.

Answer 4

If you were brought with the "men don't smack women" virtue, then, you will suffer considerably because oddly enough, a woman acts emotionally imbalanced because she needs the beating or to put it bluntly: hard sex. If you've ever studied cats prior to mating, you'll notice that the female cat behaves quite similarly. You know, violently threateningly and such. But if you just take control of her rage, a nice throttle will usually set her in the passive mode. It seems that the act of male aggression triggers her pituitary gland to secret more estrogen and thus causes her to act more passive or feminine. It's all highly scientific and there really is no reason why you should suffer.

That's why women are so unpredictable with their taste in men. During the PMS time, they like tough, ugly, caveman looking like males. Then, when things are peachy and their hormone levels are more estrogen based, they prefer sensitive, nerdy type males.

So during times of her PMS-ing, try not shaving or showering. Exercises so that you sweat and smell like "man." Maybe walk around the house with a tool box and talk with a lower than normal voice. It may trick her pituitary gland into secreting more estrogen and thus, allow for her behavior to pacify.

But I've experienced being involved with a woman with hormonal rage. Once I took the lines from the movie "The Exorcist" and tossed "holy water" at her and started screaming, "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!...."

I nearly lost my face when she thru a tv remote control at me.

It is a bit like performing an exorcism when you are with a woman who pms'es badly.

They seem to plan fights ahead of time. They are also very sadistic when you do anything that is incorrect according to her standards. You could prepare her eggs and bacon, but because you gave her the plate with only one napkin instead of two, that could turn into a 4 hour taunting. I'll walk in home after a long days of work and the verbal abuse is disturbing. I've worked with prisoners whose foul everyday language was like a priest talk compared to the direct personal assaults of vulgarity that I've received from a seriously "pms-ified" woman.

But that's all you can do: take it or punch her in the jaw. One thing you can do is just scream really loudly back at her and scare the crap out of her or just break something that makes a lot of noise. Plan in advance what you break. Maybe steal an old mother board from your work that you can slam onto the floor.

Be creative. Whatever you do. Do NOT let her go on medication to improve it. If you do that, the post "argument" sex will not be as good.

Answer 5

being a woman who has bad mood swings on pms i think it is the woman
first she has the pain
then she has moods swings that can make times difficult for the guys
i don't notice it too much because the hormones tell you this is how you feel and this seems to be a natural way of acting and driving everyone crazy but everything seems normal i don't notice it until he says i'm being stinky because i am on my week and i realize i am raising my voice and being b1tchy and picky and overly sensitive and overreact but that is why we suffer more we don't want to make you miserable with how our pms goes we feel bad but thinking about it at the time just makes us more irritatble not at you but ourselves and you for putting up with it and being sweet and understanding and we owe you so much but won't do much about it until we give birth to you children then i guess justice is served with the blessing and pain of bring life into the world to
take care of for the next 20 years and making you pay for it while we breast feed and worry about what will be around the corner as the years go by, but women suffer you just really lose money buying comfort foods until you see us in the delivery room where its all worth it

Answer 6

I wish men and women could trade places so they could see just how much of a witch it is to have PMS! I would gladly be the object of the hormonal rage any day instead of putting up with cramps, bloating, mood swings, headaches, fatigue, diarrhea, nauseous... should I go on? In answer to your question....WOMEN!!!

Answer 7

And you've never used her hormonal state as an excuse when you know you were wrong.

Woman most definitely. We have the physical pain, we don't like how we look then (bloated, skin eruptions). We do know when we act irrational, just can't help it. Then there's the guilt for acting irrational and then there's the completely unsympathetic jerk, whining about how bad it is for him. Nice touch.

Answer 8

Women do....before you were there...we suffered....when you are not there....we suffer......we go through this EVERY DAMN MONTH....you cannot say we make you suffer every month....some months our emotions are better than others...but the woman still has to DEAL with all the rest!!!......How would you like to have hot flashes, mood swings, cramps, and bleeding for a week....EVERY MONTH for YEARS????

Answer 9

I can tell you that I would take the hormonal rage you get once a month compared to the cramps, the bloating etc.....

Answer 10

LOL I think men suffer more, because they have to go through the mood swings. One minute all's well then you lean in for a kiss and she's pissed.