The week before my period I become someone awful. Is that PMS or something else?

Mood changes before a period are described in these texts as a pattern of constraint, not as a character trait.

The distinguishing feature is timing, not severity. If the irritability, hopelessness, rage or weepiness reliably appears in the same pre-period window and lifts within a few days of bleeding starting, that pattern is what clinicians screen for as PMDD, and it is treatable - so a proper diagnosis is worth having rather than white-knuckling it monthly. Two cycles of daily ratings (a one-page sheet, or any period app with mood) is usually enough to show the pattern; bring it to a GP or gynaecologist. Chinese medicine describes the same window as liver qi not flowing smoothly: distension, sighing, irritability, breast fullness, worse right before the bleed, better once it starts. The two frameworks are not rivals in practice - the tracking sheet is the shared artefact. Reasonable supports with some evidence behind them are sleep regularity, alcohol reduction in that luteal week, and steady carbohydrate intake rather than skipping meals. If you are already on an antidepressant or hormonal contraception, do not change anything based on a forum answer.

Qicura reads a described symptom against this kind of material and returns a pattern in plain language with the sources named. It does not dispense: no herb quantities, no formula composition, no preparation instructions, and no needling technique - those are deliberate limits enforced on the server, not wording we soften for a page.

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