Ladies- when your "cycle" starts, do you occasionally experience cravings similar to pregnancy?

Once a month, no matter how much chocolate I normally eat, I can’t get enough chocolate! I could eat it by the pound. And I neeeeeed ice cream. Want it, need it, gotta have it. I just buy the half gallon and get it over with.

I’ll eat pickles by the jar, scarf down an entire bag of chips with salsa, a whole tub of cottage cheese with lots of pepper, chinese food by the truckload, and I can eat massive amounts of steak.

It’s like I’m either pregnant, or I’m a 300 lb man with a serious sweet tooth. Thankfully, it only lasts about 5 days and I don’t gain any weight. But I do have to take an entire bottle of Midol, and that just sucks.