Accept that some people do not believe in the symptoms of PMS. Surround yourself with people who know how difficult PMS is in your life to build a great support group of family and friends. Keep a network of friends or family members that you can call when you are faced with overwhelming problems or those food cravings that make you want to sit in a chair in front of the refrigerator.

PMS Hint: Take a note from your cell phone company. Make a quick list of your best girlfriends. Make a pack with the this special list of girlfriends to go get products, find new PMS “deserts,” and serve as a self esteem booster. You can start your own PMS party with your best girls for support.

If I hear yet one more woman refer to PMS as their “monthly friend,” it is possible that I will run screaming from the room. (the virtual room of course!) Although I know that calling PMS a “monthly friend” is how women of my mothers generation taught us to speak politely of PMS, I dont refer to anything that brings cramps, bloating, headaches, and mood swings every month as a friend! Bring me chocolate chip ice cream or really great shoes…and we are friends!

The point is this…when woman constant think of PMS as friend or even a welcome visitor, then they forget that they can both talk about PMS in an adult manner (three little letters….say them with me….P-M-S) without the world coming to an end and we can help each other through the pains of PMS without shame. We dont acknowledge that we can gain support from the women around us (millions and millions of PMSing women can be quite a force!!!) and, perhaps even more importantly, gain information on what works to fight the ravages of PMS each month.

Dont we all wish there was a cure for PMS?

Alittle magic PMS pill that would make the monthly bloating, headaches, cramps, and mood swings go away?

I know that I do. Often, knowing the right PMS cure is as easy as recognizing your PMS symptoms and taking action!

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For some reason, women often feel like they have to face their PMS without help. There is help to the worse PMS symptoms. But, like winning the lottery, you do have to buy a ticket!!

There are practical and non-practical ways to handle PMS. Let’s face it. Every month I seem surprised that I have PMS. Until the mood swings, fatigue, or bloating hit, I don’t realize that comment from the jerk at work—normally a very nice guy—was only an attempt at humor. Of course, by that time, he is usually bleeding in the floor and people are standing around looking at me like Lizzy Borden.

What seems so odd to me though is not only my constant surprise every month, but the way in which women around me tend to deal with the PMS issue. I mean, after all, they have seen the same behavior in the mirror right? I think that we are in denial about PMS. If we don’t admit that the PMS symptoms we see in other women are the very same symptoms we see in ourselves, then we don’t have to deal with the idea of PMS every day. After all, who wants to consider PMS every day right?

My answer: we all should consider PMS every day!

Why? Because denying that something that changes the way you think, feel, interact with those you love, and see yourself for 5-7 days out of every month of your life will not help you through it!
Further, when we deny the presence of PMS in our lives, we take away all ability to plan for it and give it power to control the events in our life.

From the bloating to the binge eating to the cramps and mood swings, there are many PMS symptoms that affect our everyday lives as women. Most women can plot their PMS days on a calendar and with free email reminders from PMScentral, you can fight PMS from one month to the next!