Curing Premenstrual Syndrome Naturally: Women’s Health

By Elizabeth Cameron, SRN

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has a wide variety of symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression. It's estimated that as many as 3 of every 4 menstruating women have experienced some form of premenstrual syndrome.

Symptoms tend to recur in a predictable pattern. But the physical and emotional changes you experience with premenstrual syndrome may vary from just slightly noticeable all the way to intense.

Still, you don't have to let these problems control your life. Treatments and lifestyle adjustments can help you reduce or manage the signs and symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.

The list of potential signs and symptoms for premenstrual syndrome is long, but most women only experience a few of these problems.

Emotional and behavioral symptoms

• Tension or anxiety
• Depressed mood
• Crying spells
• Mood swings and irritability or anger
• Appetite changes and food cravings
• Trouble falling asleep (insomnia)
• Social withdrawal
• Poor concentration

Physical signs and symptoms

• Joint or muscle pain
• Headache
• Fatigue
• Weight gain related to fluid retention
• Abdominal bloating
• Breast tenderness
• Acne flare-ups
• Constipation or diarrhea

For some, the physical pain and emotional stress are severe enough to affect their daily lives. Regardless of symptom severity, the signs and symptoms generally disappear within four days of the start of the menstrual period for most women.

But a small number of women with premenstrual syndrome have disabling symptoms every month. This form of PMS is called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

PMDD signs and symptoms include depression, mood swings, anger, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, difficulty concentrating, irritability and tension.

When to see a doctor

If you haven't been able to manage your premenstrual syndrome with lifestyle changes and the symptoms of PMS are affecting your health and daily activities, see your doctor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sepharial
• Release date: Aug 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386340744

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Curing Premenstrual Tension Naturally

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Table of Contents

Introduction............................................................................................................4

What is premenstrual tension?.....................................................................5

What causes PMS?...................................................................................................9

How is PMS diagnosed?.....................................................................................11

How does medicine deal with PMS?............................................................12

Other ‘across the counter’ treatments................................................16

Dietary considerations for dealing with PMS...................................18

Herbal remedies for PMS................................................................................21

Exercise to combat the worst of PMS.....................................................25

Other well known ways of relaxing..........................................................30

Meditation to help overcome PMS..........................................................30

Deep breathing.................................................................................................33

Acupuncture for relaxation, stress and pain relief...............36

Aromatherapy for taking the stress out of life........................38

Conclusion..............................................................................................................41

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Introduction

For many millions of women all over the world, misery and irritability are a monthly fact of life, something that they have to live with month after month after month.

However, what most of these women perhaps don’t know is that whilst premenstrual tension (PMT) or premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is suffered by as many as three out of every four ladies, it is not necessary to suffer anywhere near as much as they do.

Although the number who suffer premenstrual problems as a chronic condition every month is mercifully small at somewhere around 2-5% of all sufferers, it is nevertheless a fact that for many women, PMT or PMS is a blight on their live every month that they could well do without.

In truth, there are plenty of entirely natural things that women can do to limit the worst symptoms associated with PMT or even get rid of them altogether and of course, because we are talking of completely natural solutions here, there is very little possibility of adverse side-effects either.

Before moving on to begin looking at how you can deal with PMT entirely naturally, let's start by considering the condition itself and why perhaps as many as 75% of women suffer from it each and every month.

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What is premenstrual tension?

According to the definition of premenstrual syndrome featured on Wikipedia, there is a difference between PMS and PMT. However, according to most medical sites that mention both PMT and PMS, they tend to do so interchangeably.

In essence, they are one and the same thing as far as most authoritative online resources are concerned so I am going to assume that they are the same for the purposes of this book as well.

Indeed, many resources suggest that PMS is a far more accurate description of the condition suffered by so many women every month mainly because describing it as premenstrual tension suggests that there is only one symptom suffered by these ladies.

In truth, there are many different symptoms suffered by those who are troubled by the condition, so using the phrase premenstrual syndrome is probably more accurate as it suggests that there are many different signs or ill-effects of the condition, which is absolutely true.

Although estimates of how many women actually suffer PMS vary, it is a fact that most women