PMS - How to Discover If You Have It and Why it Still Exists in the 21st Century
Understanding the root causes of this debilitating condition (known as PMS but previously PMT), helps to clear away some of the myths and silly ideas about how to overcome it.
Depression, anxiety, mood swings, as well as feelings of inadequacy which in some cases can lead to suicidal thoughts are not conducive to a happy life.
But even if your symptoms are mild and include clumsiness, occasional memory loss, bloatedness and loss of libido, why should we put up with it every month? It is a totally unnecessary illness for women to still suffer in the 21st century.
Coping with the disruption to themselves and their families for a week every month is surely one of the reasons why women have struggled to make their mark as industrialists, inventors, artists and bankers over the last 150 years.
This article starts to pare away the rubbish we've listened to over the years and will hopefully set you on the right track to finding the remedy for you.
The symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome, which are extensive, are not in themselves exclusive to the condition.
This is often the reason why diagnosis can be wrong or confused.
Men can get depressed, and children can have mood swings, but if you have PMS, these symptoms come and go in a pattern that is linked to menstruation.
Menstruation itself is not usually the topic for discussion at coffee mornings or in the staff restroom at lunchtime.
So it can be a surprise to know how varied the bleeding can be between different women.
To summarise, the cycle can be anything from 21 to 35 days normally, giving rise to the average of 28, used for the contraceptive pill etc.
Regularity isn't always the norm either, so many women's cycles fluctuate, making planning and predicting the onset of bleeding difficult, especially around the issues of pregnancy, desired or otherwise.
The actual bleeding can vary from 3 to 9 days, with different patterns of 'flow', so that one girl may start her period with a torrent of blood, that fizzles out after a few days, whereas another may not get the full flow until day 2 or 3.
The variations can be as varied as the women themselves.
So deciding whether or not you have PMS is dependent on the symptoms you do have, disappearing when bleeding is fully established.
This means that for most of the time you get along without too many problems, your life is 'normal', but just before a period, you (and probably others) has noticed that things change.
Behaviour not normally associated with you, or pains and aches you don't have at other times are present, and affect your work and home life.
After ovulation each month, the hormone progesterone rises in the body in readiness for conception.
Progesterone would go on rising to over 40 times what it is normally when you are not pregnant if in fact a baby were on the way.
However, in some women this rising of progesterone only goes to a hill or mound, when it should rise to mountain heights.
As it's the hormone of well-being and good health this is why some women suffer depression and acne, bloatedness, mood swings and worse, anger and self-harming tendencies.
Progesterone falling, is what precipitates the bleeding and the body's expulsion of the wombs lining that is no longer needed.
Women then feel back to normal until ovulation occurs next month! So WHY does this happen? Well, if we apply some reasoning and look to nature and history, the answer is just staring at us.
100 years ago and before, women became pregnant whenever they had weaned the youngest child.
10, 12, and 15 children were normal and menstruation, certainly month after month and year after year, was abnormal.
Nowadays with contraception and the emancipation of women and their increasing equality in the workplace and in deciding whether to have children or not, the rise of menstrual problems exist simply because we have chosen to make changes to what nature intended.
We can't however wait for nature and evolution to fix things, so when we study what is happening it is obvious it is a hormonal upheaval.
The very hormone we have rushing around during pregnancy if often too low in some women after puberty, or after coming off or going on the pill, or after being pregnant.
Ask yourself when did your symptoms start? There will be other articles related to this subject coming up and further information on my website.
Depression, anxiety, mood swings, as well as feelings of inadequacy which in some cases can lead to suicidal thoughts are not conducive to a happy life.
But even if your symptoms are mild and include clumsiness, occasional memory loss, bloatedness and loss of libido, why should we put up with it every month? It is a totally unnecessary illness for women to still suffer in the 21st century.
Coping with the disruption to themselves and their families for a week every month is surely one of the reasons why women have struggled to make their mark as industrialists, inventors, artists and bankers over the last 150 years.
This article starts to pare away the rubbish we've listened to over the years and will hopefully set you on the right track to finding the remedy for you.
The symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome, which are extensive, are not in themselves exclusive to the condition.
This is often the reason why diagnosis can be wrong or confused.
Men can get depressed, and children can have mood swings, but if you have PMS, these symptoms come and go in a pattern that is linked to menstruation.
Menstruation itself is not usually the topic for discussion at coffee mornings or in the staff restroom at lunchtime.
So it can be a surprise to know how varied the bleeding can be between different women.
To summarise, the cycle can be anything from 21 to 35 days normally, giving rise to the average of 28, used for the contraceptive pill etc.
Regularity isn't always the norm either, so many women's cycles fluctuate, making planning and predicting the onset of bleeding difficult, especially around the issues of pregnancy, desired or otherwise.
The actual bleeding can vary from 3 to 9 days, with different patterns of 'flow', so that one girl may start her period with a torrent of blood, that fizzles out after a few days, whereas another may not get the full flow until day 2 or 3.
The variations can be as varied as the women themselves.
So deciding whether or not you have PMS is dependent on the symptoms you do have, disappearing when bleeding is fully established.
This means that for most of the time you get along without too many problems, your life is 'normal', but just before a period, you (and probably others) has noticed that things change.
Behaviour not normally associated with you, or pains and aches you don't have at other times are present, and affect your work and home life.
After ovulation each month, the hormone progesterone rises in the body in readiness for conception.
Progesterone would go on rising to over 40 times what it is normally when you are not pregnant if in fact a baby were on the way.
However, in some women this rising of progesterone only goes to a hill or mound, when it should rise to mountain heights.
As it's the hormone of well-being and good health this is why some women suffer depression and acne, bloatedness, mood swings and worse, anger and self-harming tendencies.
Progesterone falling, is what precipitates the bleeding and the body's expulsion of the wombs lining that is no longer needed.
Women then feel back to normal until ovulation occurs next month! So WHY does this happen? Well, if we apply some reasoning and look to nature and history, the answer is just staring at us.
100 years ago and before, women became pregnant whenever they had weaned the youngest child.
10, 12, and 15 children were normal and menstruation, certainly month after month and year after year, was abnormal.
Nowadays with contraception and the emancipation of women and their increasing equality in the workplace and in deciding whether to have children or not, the rise of menstrual problems exist simply because we have chosen to make changes to what nature intended.
We can't however wait for nature and evolution to fix things, so when we study what is happening it is obvious it is a hormonal upheaval.
The very hormone we have rushing around during pregnancy if often too low in some women after puberty, or after coming off or going on the pill, or after being pregnant.
Ask yourself when did your symptoms start? There will be other articles related to this subject coming up and further information on my website.
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