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Health Blog - thebroadroom.net: Does anything work for PMS?
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. We are not doctors, nurses, or otherwise trained
medical personnel.
Does anything work for PMS?
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Monday, January 09, 2006
at 9:16 PM (Pacific)
I asked myself that today...I don't get it nearly as often as I used to, but when I do get it, it's crippling.
Since most information of this kind can typically be found only on the Internet, I did some googling around...frankly...not much new. I could just as well be asking this same question twenty years ago.
The one thing I found to try is calcium/vitamin D:
How PMS Works
PMS Relief
Apparently you are to take 1,200 mg calcium and 400 IU vitamin D per day. You are supposed to split this amount and take it twice per day...in order for the calcium to be absorbed better. You are to do this over two to three months, possibly, before seeing results.
I actually have some Costco calcium supplements that I never take. It's 500 mg calcium and 200 IU vitamin D I think. On the bottle it says to take it two or three times per day...which coincides with the above googled info.
Okay! So I took one of the calcium pills tonight.
There might well be something to it, if only because other "mysterious" health problems such as adult acne seem to be caused at least in part by, a lack of certain nutrients in our food. I know it seems outlandish, because we eat so much and seemingly so much better than previous generations...but, we don't know what we're eating anymore. It's mass produced and genetically engineered. I've heard elsewhere that our food simply doesn't contain as much vitamins and so forth as it used to, hence the need for supplements.
On a personal note, I can admit to being extremely annoyed that there isn't more research done on this condition. It's not a brand new condition. I went to that Lifetime TV forum site to see if anyone had found something that worked for PMS. I read the first three pages of it and it was all the same...woman after woman basically crying out for help and saying that nothing worked for the damn thing.
Another thing I find irritating beyond belief is the advice to exercise and eat better. That's a treatment? That's a cure? Exercising and eating better, would make a cancer patient feel better. But no one would insult someone whose health is suffering, by implying that working out is the cure. It isn't.
In fact, it seems to me that only female-only pain...menstrual, PMS, and childbirth...is ever treated by "mind control," "eat better and exercise," etc. To me it's an extension of "suffer in silence," or, for that matter, "go drown yourself in the village pond."
Oh well let's see if that calcium doesn't do something.
 
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