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• Wide range of physical or emotional symptoms starting 5-11 days before onset of monthly menstrual cycle
• may worsen as a woman approaches teh transition age, late 30s -40s to menopause
• Exact casue has not been identified, but triggers may include social, cultral, biological and/or psychological

• in late 20s to early 40s
• Have had at least one child
• with family history of major depression
• with history of postpartum depression or affective mood disorder

• Physical-Breast swelling/tenderness, acne, bloating and weight gain, heasaches, joint and/or muscle pain, food cravings
• Behavioraly - mood swings, crying spells, irriability, anxiety, depression, fatigue, insomnia

a medical hisory to learn when symptoms occur and/or how symptoms interfere with daily life

• Trigger avoidance
• High intake of Ca2+ and Vitamin D

• Lifestyle changes
• NSAIDs
• Oral Contrceptives
• Cognitive behavior therapy,
• light therapy
• antidpressants
• anxiolytics
• diuretics

• Marked by server depression, irritability, and tension before menstration
• Affects about 3-8% of women during their years of menstration
• generally worse in yonder women
• symptoms more severe than those seeen with PMS

Exact casue has not been identified, however hormonal changes may play a major role and/or serotonin (5-HT)

• Physical - bloating, weight gain, headaches, breast tenderness, joint and muscle pain
• Behavioral - a myraid of behavioral or emotional symptoms, must have 5 or more of emotional symptoms to be diagnosed with PMDD

• same as PMS
• Lifestyle changes
• NSAIDs
• Oral Contrceptives
• Cognitive behavior therapy,
• light therapy
• antidpressants
• anxiolytics
• diuretics

A condition where uterine tissue (endometriem) grows outside theuterus in the pelvic area such as ovaries, bowels, rectum, urninary bladder, pelvic wall

• Endrometial tissue outside the theuterus responds to homraonal changes like normal uterine tissue
• Etiology of endometriosis is unknown and cannot be prevented
• Exhibits proliferative and secretory phase with sloughing and subsequent bleeding

cause is unknown, but one theory for endometriosis is called retrograde menstruation

Pelvic Pain, menorrhagia, metrorhagia, fatigue, abdominal bleeding, diarrhea or constipation

• Family history
• Starting menstruation at an early age
• never having had children
• frequent menstraual cycles
• periods that last 7 or more days
• closed hymen blocking menstrual blood flow

• Age
• Severity of sysmptoms or disease
• children in the future
• Medications