I had a reply typed, but it got lost and my thank you came through. I will start again. After a few visits to the Doc, he started asking my wife to record daily on a calender how she felt that day. After a couple of months, it became very clear that she felt terrible for two weeks a month, every month. In the last 6 cycles (which last 2 weeks now), she has attempted suicide twice, and the other times became:

Became emotionally abusive to me AND our kids.
(her words) Lost control of myself emotionally
Spent hours whaling at the top of her lungs, followed by more hours of crying.
Becomes very agressive, and looks for someone to "feel her pain" Unfortunately, it is mostly herself.

We have been together for 15 years, and married over 13. Her period is MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than ever before. I would say 10 times worse. I found this web site as I tried to understand what she was going through so that I could help. My intent is not to blame any problems on her.

Based upon all the above, the Doc suggested that he feels that she try hormone replacement for 3 months, and see if it makes a difference. He also said he felt that he would like to change her medication (Prozac), because he felt that she did not have depression, but a "mood disorder". He did not want to change the medicine until she tried the HRT.

He suggested that if HRT did not work (and he said he thought it probably wouldn't), that he would change the Prozac to a medicine that would treat a "mood disorder". My wife asked what one of the drugs might be, and the Doc replied their are so many different ones he couldn't even recomend one yet.

I post this because as I educate myself on PTSD (she was diagnosed years ago with this, which I found out after the first time she took a bunch of pills), I have been cautioned that many PTSD issues get misdiagnosed as other things. Based upon this, I wanted to ask the members of this forum for thier feelings, as I have gotten more insight here into PTSD as anyplace, and people have been kind in sharing their experiences.

I cannot get my wife to read this forum. Two weeks a month she is on such a high she doesn't feel she needs it. Two weeks a month, she is so low and disconnected she won't/can't.

As always, I post repectfully and with respect.