Irritability before menstruation

Most people often hope to be in a good mood every moment, but real life is not so smooth. Many people often experience symptoms of irritability in real life. For most people, it is possible to feel irritable at any time, especially our female friends, who often feel irritable before menstruation. So, what causes women to feel irritable before their period?

In fact, most women want to know the above question, because this situation usually occurs to most women. Before menstruation, women tend to feel irritable, perhaps because they know that their period is about to come. In response to this phenomenon, let’s talk about the relevant information about irritability during menstruation.

Many women experience mood swings, irritability, low-grade fever, sweating, and breast tenderness about a week before their period. This phenomenon is medically known as "premenstrual tension syndrome."

The cause of the disease is the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body in the period before menstruation, which causes endocrine and nervous system dysfunction and leads to the above-mentioned series of manifestations. Once menstruation comes, the hormone ratio is quickly adjusted automatically and the symptoms are quickly relieved. Therefore, for women suffering from premenstrual dysphoria, if they pay attention to self-care, the symptoms can be significantly alleviated.

Because the cause and pathogenesis of this disease are still unclear, there is still a lack of specific and standardized treatment methods, and treatment is mainly symptomatic. Therefore, we should first clarify the main aspects of the symptoms and treat them according to different people, including two aspects:

① Aiming at the patient's psychological and pathological factors, through health education, the patient can understand the physiological knowledge of the symptoms, so as to help the patient improve the response to the symptoms, and then adjust the rhythm of daily life, strengthen physical exercise, improve nutrition, reduce stress response to the environment and other methods to alleviate the symptoms;

The second is drug treatment, which uses drugs that adjust the activity of central nervous system neurotransmitters to alleviate psychological and emotional disorders, or uses hormones to inhibit ovulation to eliminate severe PMS symptoms such as breast tenderness.

For the convenience of clinical reference, the treatment plan for controlling the main symptoms is described as follows:

(I) Strengthen health education: Make patients realize that PMS is a common phenomenon among women of childbearing age and that relief can be achieved through a series of lifestyle adjustments and simple drug treatments, thereby eliminating patients' concerns about the disease and unnecessary mental burdens, and allowing them to be mentally prepared before symptoms appear and take the following preventive measures in terms of life and nutrition.

(ii) Supplementation of minerals and vitamins: It has been widely used in the treatment of PMS. It is reported that taking 1000 mg of Ca and 360 mg of Mg daily can improve negative emotions, water retention and pain during the luteal phase, but its mechanism of action is not understood and the treatment effects vary greatly. Some patients experienced significant improvement in their symptoms after treatment, while others experienced no change at all.

Through the detailed introduction in the above article, I believe most female friends have already understood the above problems. In fact, for most women, there are reasons for being irritable before menstruation. This is actually a manifestation of "premenstrual tension syndrome". Therefore, when our female friends encounter such a situation again in their future lives, they need to find out the cause and seek timely treatment if necessary.