What is PMS?

So what exactly is PMS?

Premenstrual Syndrome causes both emotional and physical changes in women prior to menstruation. Refered to as simply "PMS", nearly 40% of all women commonly experience some of the more than 150 symptoms associated with it. These symptoms range from physical aspects such as breast tenderness, nausea, and acne, to emotional symptoms like anger and irritability.

Of the women who experience PMS, symptoms vary significantly from one woman to the next, and from cycle to cycle. Approximately 20-40% of all women who live with PMS 2.5 to 5% of those suffer from debilitating symptoms which make life extremely difficult.

In a nutshell PMS represents the physical and psychological symptoms that occur in the week before a woman's menstrual period. Symptoms may include bloating, headache, irritability, anxiety or depression, low self-esteem, difficulty sleeping, changes in appetite, fatigue, and breast swelling and tenderness.