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Premenstrual Tension
The premenstrual tension syndrome is a polymorphous medical profile which
cyclically appears with each menstruation and disappears after it to
continue being asymptomatic during the whole month until a few days before
the next menstruation.
The most characteristic symptoms are:
• Mammary tension: increase of breasts’ volume, accompanied by pain
• Abdominal swelling: it is accompanied by painful abdominal
swelling and premenstrual weight increase
• Neuro-psychical alterations: depressive signs, mood and/or sleep
alterations, irritability, anxiety, emotional instability, difficulties to
concentrate, fatigue or clear absence of energy, loss of interest in
everyday activities, eating habits alterations such as increased hunger or
desire to eat, etc.
Nowadays the causes of this syndrome are not known with certainty. Many
hypotheses are considered being the most important, in my opinion, the
disequilibrium between estrogens and progesterone, both ovarian hormones
of the menstrual cycle.
Estrogens favor water retention while progesterone, which appears in the
second stage of the cycle, after ovulation, facilitates the elimination of
the water from the body. Since progesterone decreases during premenstrual
tension, there is more accumulation of water therefore motivating weight
increase, tiredness, the swelling and heaviness of the legs, as some of
the symptoms on those days before menstruation.
The diminution of serotonin in the body during the second stage of the
cycle is another on vogue theory these days.
Progesterone is the hormone which prepares the uterine endometrium during
each cycle for the fecundated ovule to be nested and fed. If this is not
the case, that is to say if there is no pregnancy, it makes the
endometrium desquamate and fall as menstruation. But progesterone mainly
acts on the mammary glandule increasing its swelling and preparing it for
the production of milk in case of gestation, which implies a bigger volume
of the breasts and more sensitivity.
This occurs in every woman’s cycles, with variations according to the
different stages and of course according to the different women…
This syndrome is also accompanied by an emotional component which varies
from woman to woman being its most frequent manifestations irritability,
hypersensitivity, sadness, crying, etc.
The conventional treatment is carried out administering progesterone or
either oral contraceptives which will suppress the ovarian cycle, that is
to say ovulation. Also, analogues of the Gn.RH will also suppress
ovulation stopping the activity of the hypothalamic- hypophyseal- ovarian
axis completely during six months and provoking the cease of menstruation.
I consider there are other ways of winning the battle against the
premenstrual tension syndrome in a more natural and respectful way for the
feminine body.
Homeopathy is an energetic medicine which mainly contemplates the
psychical or emotional aspects of each patient and their ways to get sick.
It helps to find the equilibrium by stimulating self-mechanisms of the
body, such as the regulation of progesterone secretion or either the
proportion of estrogens and progesterone in each cycle.
Phytotherapy, vitamins supplies, calcium, magnesium, evening primrose oil
and relaxation techniques are other elements which help improve this
clinical profile that worsens women’s quality of life so much month after
month.
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