What is PMS?
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a legitimate medical condition with various physical and emotional symptoms that can disrupt your well being, work and personal life. The symptoms occur on a regular basis during the pre-menstrual phase of the menstrual cycle (usually 7-10 days prior to menses). For some women, this condition can be significantly debilitating.

       

These symptoms are very real. If they occur for at least 4 days prior to menses and disappear when bleeding begins, PMS is considered to be present. The tragedy with this condition is that many doctors either deny it exists or simply believe that women periodically have emotional swings that are normal.

 

Only with the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System can the hormonal imbalance which underlies these  symptoms be corrected.   The timing of these symptoms is important in order to distinguish between symptoms that occur pre-menstrually and those that occur all the time. E.g. Symptoms associated with depression.

 

PMS is considered to result from a progesterone deficiency. There are also studies showing links with decreased Beta-endorphins during the post-ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle. Women need to be reassured that this physiological condition resulting from a hormonal abnormality is ‘not a condition in their head’.

 

The Oral Contraceptive Pill is commonly prescribed to ‘manage’ PMS which may result in an improvement of symptoms for some women. But the FertilityCare™ approach is to diagnose and treat the underlying cause, in a targeted way, which is dependent on a woman learning to chart her fertility using the Creighton Model System. Only then can accurate hormonal evaluation and treatment conducted.