How many women find they get really emotional at that time of the month?

I always get somewhat emotional but depending on the month sometimes it's just like weepy and stuff ya know crying over commercials or pictures of cute kittens and other months it's like "RAWWWRRRRR LEAVE ME ALONE AND GIVE ME MY COFFFEEEEE!!!!" for like a week.

It's definitely all been worse since kids that's for sure!

Not really moody per say but she takes a lot less crap
She once chewed out a biker (gang tats) because he said something sexiest to a buddy that I can't remember. So as she is chewing him out I am thinking "I can take out the 2 maybe 3 but the other 4 will probably kill me"

Key point here is...I no longer take her places during that week I give her chocolate/space and like my father I hide behind the sand bags.

Really depends for me, like how much pain I am in, the stresses I am dealing with, etc.

My boyfriend told me that there usually isn't much of a change; a lot of times he thinks that he may have just done something that may have upset me regardless of whether or not I am menstruating.

He says that I'm a brat most of the time, so it's hard to tell. lol

I'm a depressed mess.. but after it's over it's like being on ecstasy! It's like after its all over my body wants to make up for it all. I like it though, the lows make the highs higher, right?

Oh god, I used to be HORRIBLE. Especially when I was still living at home with my hormonal mother and sister, and not on BC. Now that I'm out of there, living with my very level-headed husband, and happily on birth control, I've gotten a lot better.... I hope lol

I have never had them...and don't think I ever will. Also, I think that the whole emotional thing is a stigma that we are taught through parents, peers, media and therefore act in accordance with.

I am a very emotional person (I always cry on Ghost Whisperer episodes and the like...even if I know how a movie ends bcs I have seen it 10 times I still cry.), I feel a lot but I don't feel worse during my period.

I didn't think I would have a problem, I wasn't sure if I believed in the menstruating lady monster thing until fairly recently. I have started noticing patterns. I think I become unusually emotional in the days before my period. I lose track of my cycle and this is sometimes my reminder. I get sad and cry a little more easily. During menstruation, I only get moody if my cramps are really bad. But I don't usually allow that moodiness to happen as I avoid interaction and try to sleep until the worst is over.

I'm a very super pansy emo kid when I'm not PMSing, but when I am PMSing... I cry over lots of things. Sometimes a commerical will make me tear up.. I want more cuddles...I need more text messages, I need more phone calls... and more warm blankets..

Before I was on BC I was really emotional. Now, I am pretty stable and I much prefer it that way. I hate crying over commercials and stop lights and other trivial things.

I've been known to get emotional during my period.. Hate it. >_>

I have crying spells sometimes. It's nothing a lot of ice cream can't fix.
I also get really hungry...haha.

I've never gotten angry or depressed or anything like that, but I do sometimes get more emotional... like things will affect me more than they would normally. But it isn't every time, it's just sometimes. I don't like it though, I can say that!

I get pretty mean for a couple of days before. My anxiety is high. I don't want to be touched. Everyone is the "bad guy." And I'll cry at telephone company commercials about "staying close to loved ones." During, I'm usually in pain and cranky; until about halfway through when I'm horny and I just want to be done with the whole damn mess.

I wouldn't say I get more emotional, but I do get bitchier and don't want to be around people.

Sometimes I can get so emotional it's embarrassing!!!

Can we have an "other" vote?

I certainly wouldn't say that I'm a wreck in the lead-up to my period. My normal pattern is that I get really horny about 7-9 days before my period, and then that libido gradually declines as I get closer to menstruating. A day before my period starts, something in my life that might otherwise be bugging me (but not bugging me that much) will just suddenly make me very sad, and I'll feel like crying. That effect only lasts about 12 hours. After that, I'm suddenly horny again. And then my period will start.

I've never really been on birth control, and my cycle is a bit irregular (still, at 33), so I've always found this emotional pattern to be a really good way of predicting when my period is coming. When it starts, it's very painful, so I'm often a bit short with people over those first couple of days - but really that's just pain and fatigue talking, not hormones.

I always thought it was quite funny that one of my ex-boyfriends used to whine and carry on about how "emotional" I got when my period was coming, and that made him very dismissive of any gripes I had (regardless of whereabouts I was in my cycle at the time). I was his first girlfriend though. After we broke up, he married another girl... and I heard through friends later that all he did was whine about how crazy she was during her period, and how sane and steady I'd been by comparison. Karma's a bitch.

It really depends... sometimes more so than others depending on what else is going on.

Sometimes I am emotional during but not always!

I take depo for endometriosis, to control the growing and pain as it stops my period. I do feel irritable, usually a day or two of extreme endo pain ,etc. So I can tell when it's that time, but thankfully no bleeding which makes a big diff. in the pain I was used to having. I do sometimes get emotional! I have been all week!

When I find myself tearing up over a lifetime movie, that's when I know it's coming!

I'm definitely a lot more emotional when I'm on my period, but it's not really that noticeable to anyone but myself and maybe my husband. I find myself crying a lot more easily, but I'm able to keep myself in check enough that I don't just break down in public.

I become more sensitive on my period, but its not super noticeable.

It really depends. Some months I get more emotional than others.

I am a hormonal mess when I am on my period, however it has gotten much worse since I went off the pill.

I get emotional before.. I feel sorry for my bf