PMS is not a disease per se. It’s a syndrome or waste basket of at least 150 emotional, physical and mental symptoms that appear every month around two weeks before your period. The frustration of this condition is you feel fine for a week or two after you menstruate, then the insanity of PMS hits you once again. This explains why you can feel on top of the world one week and in the very depths of hell the next. Most women don’t treat PMS and don’t consider going to the doctor.

Today, most authorities agree PMS is caused by imbalanced hormones. Most women think it is in there head. Some physicians believe there are other contributing factors including a diet high in animal fat, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, untreated low blood sugar, chronic yeast infections, stress, thyroid disease, adrenal gland dysfunction, and lower than normal levels of the hormone DHEA. After 60 years, we are still searching for answers.

PMS is estimated to affect close to half of all women in their reproductive years. There remains to be some controversy on what causes PMS, but some theories include poor nutrition, low levels of progesterone and/or estrogens, and thyroid diseases. PMS often goes unnoticed or treated because women mistakenly assume women PMS is normal. The same group of women, who have PMS, is the same group of women that will have perimenopause and menopausal symptoms. This same group of women has an increased chance of developing cancer, adult diabetes, and thyroid problems if untreated. Some of the most common symptoms experienced are:

Water retention

Breast tenderness

Mood changes, depression

Headaches

PMS Has a History

PMS has been studied as a physical illness since 1920. In 1931, PMS and its symptoms were first linked to excess estrogen. Researchers thought these high levels were caused by either diminished estrogen excretion and/or an overproduction of estrogen within the body. Seven years later, low progesterone production and the estrogen-top-heavy balance between the two were added to the PMS equation. In 1943, scientists found estrogen excretion was inhibited by a vitamin B deficiency. Dr John Lee states on PMS: “Women and doctors are confused about PMS. They read in supposedly reputable books that PMS refers to a collection of symptoms that generally occur the 10 days before a woman's period and on into at least a portion of her period time, and that this period of time is the time that progesterone is "dominant". Therefore, PMS is due to progesterone. The mistake they make is to never measure for the progesterone. If they would, they would find that women with PMS are low in progesterone. The ovaries should be making the progesterone and they are not. These women are estrogen and cortisol dominant. (If you use natural progesterone) you will have an 85, 90, 95 percent chance of bringing your PMS symptoms under control.” If you are suffering from any of these symptoms, PMS may be a part of your life.

Estrogen and Progesterone Levels Affect PMS

If estrogen and progesterone are at the bottom of your PMS, it’s essential to balance out these hormones. However, other hormones are involved too, as are diet, lifestyle and stress. True healing of PMS demands that you and your doctor dig up the root cause of your problems.

Health care professionals have used natural progesterone cream since 1950’s to help relieve the symptoms of menopause, hormone balance, bone support and PMS. It is a natural solution for women and an alternative to synthetic hormone replacement therapy, (HRT).

Please note that there can be other causes. This is for education only. It is not intended to treat, prevent or cure a medical disease. If you have a medical condition, please consult a health care professional.