Hi everyone! I was just reading through a thread about dryheaves without nausea. As common as this seems to be it does not fit my issues. Starting about 4 or so yrs ago i would get these just random in the morning upon waking. Now some years later I see a pattern with the week prior to my period. Hot flashes, sweats, chills, extreme anxiety and paranoia, brain fog, sleep disturbances, and the phantom heaving. Strangly enough my periods are as regular as they have ever been at around 27-30 days. ( I used to go 28-72days in my 20's) Im 47, I don't smoke cigs, take drugs, drink alcohol. I notices last month that I had the typical episodes a few days prior; but I also had one episode during and then again a week after. Here we come again this month and it's worse almost every day. I will say that my loving husband found me something to take that really does help, even though I am taking it 2-3x a day now. It's called DIM or Diindolylmethane. Its a chemical from cruciferous veggies. I also find Theanine to help with the anxiety a bit. So is anyone else having this problem with the anxiety/paranoia or the heaving or both?