Are you facing physical and mental difficulties about seven days before your menstrual period? Do you feel irritation, headache, depression, and anxiety like mental problems and constipation, thirsty, weight gain, breast pain like physical problems? Such symptoms before menstrual period of women are called as Premenstrual syndrome or PMS. Read this article to know more about it and how to get rid of it.
The premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a persistent, uneven physical and emotional problem that occurs during 7-10days before menses and stops when menstruation occurs. Around 7-10% women undergoes with this syndrome at the age group of 25-40. Some of the self practices which can be done by the patient to get rid of this disease are mentioned here below.
Self Assignments for Premenstrual Syndrome Patients
- Eat plenty of carbohydrate diet such as pasta, potatoes, along with fruits and vegetable daily;
- Avoid sugary foods and snacks;
- Take sufficient fruit or whole-wheat crackers whenever you feel hungry;
- Aerobic exercise, yoga or 20-30 min of rapid walk is highly beneficial;
- Avoid drinking coffee and alcohol during this period and try to take plenty of water, i.e. 10% ratio as per your weight. For example, if your weight is 50kg, take 5 liters of water in a day;
- You can reduce the amount to salt in your diet a little bit to control such symptoms;
- Take sufficient rest and go out if possible to take fresh air/breathe.
Clinical Advice for Premenstrual Syndrome Patients
- Keep track of your symptoms and problems at least for 3-4 month regularly and update the same with your doctor/physician.
- Test vitamin, calcium and sugar level in your blood and take / control diet accordingly.
- 1200mg of calcium per day is necessary for a patient.
- Serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as fluoxetine 20mg is helpful to reduce stress, headache, irritation like issues; which can be taken orally on symptom day or daily as per the physician’ guidance.
- Vitamin B6 rich diets such as chicken, egg, nuts, bananas etc. are helpful.
- For excessive bloating and breast pain, you may take spironolactone 100mg during the period to reduce quickly.
- Depot Medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) will also reduce breast pain and cramping like issues; you may take it orally or injectably.
Disclaimer: Author is not a certified medical practitioner or prescriber; the matters published in this article are just for information only. You need to consult your physician in acute cases of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS).
