Anyone have a remedy for PMS?

[tabekat]

I hate to be a cliche' but when TOM rolls around I typically have a severe emotional reaction. Major PMS. I just feel extremely depressed and I want to eat more than I should. I'm still sticking to Atkins, but I'm having trouble with portions and with cravings. I want to yell at someone and I want to be hugged hard by someone. Yeah, I'm being crazy.

[loonatika]

TOM does crazy things to me too. Cure? get a gun and some targets
Seriously though, a vitamin b complex, plus primose oil and borage oil is meant to help. As for the cravings, I just make sure I have plenty of legal snacks and food around so I'm not overly tempted to buy out the candy aisle.

[tabekat]

thanks for the suggestions loonatika, especially the gun - lol...i'll try them. by the way, you look cute in your pj's... :yes

[najia274]

I get off each month...I mean wayyy off. I ended up talking to my doctor and talking to her for a solution. We decided to put me on birth control pills round the month. I only get my period once every three months this way and the third month is very controlled. I know what Atkins says about birth control pills but the reality is they help me be sane.

[america57]

I eat a little extra of the legal foods. I usually have cream cheese on celery, something about all that crunching and chewing gets the PMS out of me! I also take Premsyn PMS, you can buy it at the grocery store. It helps with bloating and headache and mellows me out. If I forget to take it, my DH reminds me!

[TWTMhomeschoolMom]

You might try adding some ground flax seed to your woe too. They have natural estrogen and for some reason really diminished my pms symptoms.

Carole

[Muchsuccess]

I do believe that we all experience this in some degree. But if we can really try and get busy. And I mean that literally. I find that the busier my schedule is during that week I have more control of my eating habits. I am an emotional eater and I know it. So if I am busy I don't have time to feel emotions. And since during that time of the month they are real crazy I make sure my schedule is also. So deliberately plan things around that "time of the month". See if it works for you too! Good luck

[cleochatra]

Pamprin works wonders. It also helps alleviate bloating and backache as well as irritability.

[Finelly]

1. Get pregnant
2. Have a hysterectomy
3. Try Evening Primrose Oil capsules. They are amazing. Start now, and next month won't be nearly so bad.
4. Ask your doctor to put you into a drug-induced coma every 28 days......mine won't, but I keep asking, in case he changes his mind.

[Ailinn]

For me, writing helps a LOT.

I mean, you have all this excess emotion going on (mood swings, etc) so why not put it to use? I've found I've written some amazing things during heavy PMS cycles, and when I read it later on sometimes it doesn't even sound like me.

Also, it's really really hard to give in to cravings when you're concentrating so hard on what you're writing, and it's too messy to eat and write at the same time.

I don't think it really matters what you write, but if you make it something personal, it can really pull all that icky stuff like crankiness out of you onto the paper.

Ooh, and I find eating salmon alot prior to my cycle helps as well. I had no idea why, but I did a little research and found this (lucky us, most things look legal! Not all, but enough to make me happy.)

http://www.wholehealthmd.com/hk/reme...59,502,00.html