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Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
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Also known as: Premenstrual Syndrome · PMS · days before your period · symptoms before menstruation · premenstrual complaints · mood swings cycle · lower abdominal pain before period · irritability before period · breast tenderness before period · water retention before period
Your Body Is Speaking
In the days before menstruation, everything shifts. Mood, body awareness, energy — what worked effortlessly yesterday suddenly feels like an enormous burden. Irritability that comes from nowhere. Sadness with no concrete cause. Bloating, breast tenderness, headaches, cravings, exhaustion. Your body seems to be turning against you — of all times, you who normally has everything under control.
Medicine explains PMS through hormonal fluctuations — estrogen and progesterone shift, serotonin drops, the body reacts. And that's true, at the biochemical level. But the question BodySignal asks goes deeper: Why do you react so intensely to this cycle, while others barely notice it? What makes your system so sensitive to a fluctuation that is biologically normal?
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