Women with Premenstrual Syndrome

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Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a recurrent disorder of the menstrual cycle of women consists of a series of physical symptoms, psychological and behavioral hard enough to alter to a greater or lesser extent the life of sufferers.

Its symptoms appear in the second phase of the cycle (luteal phase) and significantly relieve menstruation appear. Many women who suffer, to varying degrees of intensity. Some experimentation some mild symptoms, while other women experience pains that prevent them from performing their normal physical activities, work and family.

First survey of SPM in Spain

The Daphne team I presented the census-based population survey carried out in our country and in Europe on the SPM, which has been made to know the extent of this syndrome and the attitude of the woman and the doctor before it.

The survey, conducted in 2018 women, confirms that PMS symptoms affect about 80 percent of women throughout his life. The data analysis focuses on moderate or severe endometriosis than 772,487 women suffer in our country, as she has a sgnificativo impact on the daily lives of women.

Symptoms that interfere with the lives of women

Isabel Serrano, gynecologist at the City of Madrid and President of the Federation of Family Planning, notes that "the SPM has a varied symptoms that generally includes about 80 symptoms (40 physical and 40 psychological)." The most common recognize women in the survey are physical symptoms like breast tenderness, headache or muscle, fluid retention or weight gain, occurring in 45.7% of women in its moderate to severe followed in order of frequency anger, hostility and irritability (29.2%), desire to mourn, be tender and rejection sensitivity (24.7%), excessive hunger and food cravings (21.6%) and fatigue or lack of energy (21%) together with the loss of interest at home (7.1%), work (6%) and social (5.6%), among others.

The degree of involvement of these sínttomas is considered moderate to severe when it impacts directly on the quality of life of women. In these cases, the symptoms last about three days a month and respondents acknowledge that affects their family relationships in 7.1% of cases, in social life at 5.6% and leads to a loss of interest in the work at 6%. This last figure "has a great social impact because depending on the severity of these symptoms, resulting in a major school and work absenteeism," he says Ezequiel Pérez Campos, President of the Spanish Foundation of Contraception.

Treatment of PMS

Despite this impact on personal and professional life of women, these symptoms usually assumed as normal and the woman did not see a doctor. Even in the most severe forms of the disease, up to 75% of women do not consult their doctor because they consider it normal, private or for not thinking that could be solved.

Of those attending, according to the survey, most commonly used treatments for these symptoms are alivisar hormonal contraceptives in 57% of cases I, followed by pain in 53% and home remedies or natural (4.1%). Inaki Lete, department head of Obstetrics Santiago Apostol Hospital in Vitoria, says that "for many years the treatment of this syndrome has been largely in the hands of psychiatrists. However, there are currently adequate hormonal preparations have resulted in lower the impact and severity of symptoms experienced by women these days, especially in its milder forms. "