Can PMS cause anxiety? If so, then how to get rid of PMS anxiety? Should you take herbs for PMS anxiety? Should I take supplements for anxiety? Specifically, are there vitamins for anxiety? What other types of PMS anxiety relief can I get? (I want natural remedies for PMS anxiety.)
If you have anxiety, you may feel any or all of these PMS anxiety symptoms:
- panic attacks
- moods that change rapidly
- overcome with worry
- you feel a sense of apprehension
- shortness of breath
- feeling of being anxious about something, sometimes for no reason
- feeling of nervousness
- feeling of fear
- heart palpitations
- nausea
Many women who have anxiety have it during the entire month, but they find the anxiety worse during their period. Is that you?
Consider the causes of PMS anxiety and you can decipher the code on why you have PMS depression and anxiety.
1. Hormone levels that aren’t stable.
When your reproductive hormones are vacillating, your body should be able to handle it. If it doesn’t, this is an indication of the liver’s inability to detoxify the hormones. Your liver creates hormones and then breaks them down to recycle the different parts of the hormones.
To break the anxiety code and to stop having anxiety during periods, use liver cleansing herbs for PMS anxiety such as milk thistle, boldo, artichoke leaf, and complete formulas for liver cleansing herbs. Generally, you take 1-2 capsules of them twice daily.
2. Stress
Stress increases cortisol levels and the result is anxiety. Women who are affected by anxiety all month long might have PMS anxiety and if so, they may feel it worsen during their period.
There are many ways you can decrease stress you are feeling:
- yoga
- exercise
- petting a dog or cat
- watching fish
- meditation/praying
- hiking in nature
- laughing
- take a nap
- call a friend
- read a book
- going for a walk
- smiling
The key is to participate long enough in the activity to decrease the stress. Don’t give up.
3. Low levels of vitamins and minerals
Low levels of magnesium will cause anxiety; it’s a symptom of the deficiency. Low levels of calcium are also linked to anxiety; a deficiency causes anxiety. Low levels of almost every B vitamin will also cause anxiety.
The solution is to make sure your levels of the B vitamins are high enough at all times of your cycle. For example, by taking a Period Vitamin, you can be assured to get enough of the B vitamins. Since it’s taken daily, the B vitamins go into your body and hit the critical amounts needed to keep your moods good. You have less of a chance to end up with anxiety.
4. Pain
Pain such as from cramps during your period can definitely cause anxiety. Cramps can result from many different causes, but in natural healing, the primary reason for them during your periods is that the body is in need of a colon cleanse and liver cleanse.
When the colon is backed up and there’s constipation, all the old waste matter is placing a lot of stress on the next organ in line trying to dump its toxins. That next organ is the liver. When the liver is backed up and not operating optimally in its functions, symptoms such as PMS anxiety, swelling, irritability, headaches, and cramping will occur.
Going into your periods with a colon that is flowing as it should makes all the difference in having periods that are symptom-free. And you really can have symptom-free periods. The solution to less pain of any kind – physical, mental, or emotional is to keep the body in the flow state in every organ.
Natural remedies can be very potent for anxiety. But if you’re on medications for anxiety, certainly you’ll be getting some relief from them so don’t stop the medications suddenly. Don’t feel guilty about not going totally natural if you are taking the doctor’s medications. It often takes a while for the natural remedies to kick in, and during the interim time frame, the medications play an important role.
PMS and anxiety doesn’t have to be a connection in your life. If it’s a connection right now, make it temporary. Use any or several of the methods mentioned above to break the code on your PMS anxiety.
