You already know what pre menstrual syndrome is… but what is post menstrual syndrome? Is there even such a thing as post menstrual syndrome? Why haven’t I heard much about it.

Post menstrual syndrome does exist. Just when you thought you were free of pre-menstrual symptoms after your period begins, then symptoms could hit you again. These symptoms are the same ones that occur during pre-menstrual syndrome: headache, anxiety and depression, post menstrual cramps, weight gain, fluid retention, congestion in the breasts, back pain and dizziness.

So the bad news is that yes, post menstrual syndrome does exist and about one-third of women get these symptoms. If you’re one of the women that get post menstrual syndrome, you want relief – and if you’ve been reading other articles on this site, you’ll be happy to know that the same techniques for relief of PMS work well for post menstrual syndrome, too.

To answer the question you may be thinking about what causes Post Menstrual Syndrome, you would have to first look at the same causes of Pre Menstrual Syndrome. All the vitamin and mineral deficiencies and poor diet habits that cause PMS also can cause Post Menstrual Syndrome.

However, there may be other causes of Post Menstrual Syndrome – and for these, your medical doctor has to do something called differential diagnosis to determine what is causing it. This means he has to make sure your symptoms are not from some other cause that is more serious, such as a tumor, endometriosis, ectopic pregnancy, or other serious causes.

If you do go to the medical doctor, your treatment will most likely only be medications. There’s no surgical procedure that will help unless your condition is a more serious one that needs attention right now. Doctors don’t offer any natural remedies of relief for any disease so don’t expect any. Because they are more concerned with disease that’s acute and not chronic, you will only get more and more frustrated with what they have to offer if you expect them to give you 4 ways to get rid of post menstrual syndrome.

What Helps You Relieve The Symptoms of Post Menstrual Syndrome

1. Your best bet to eliminate these symptoms is to clean up your diet. All the fast food you may have been eating or the sugary foods are not feeding your body in any way, shape or form. These foods are devoid of nutrients and your body responds by giving you symptoms. Each symptom you get is your body asking for you to help make it healthier.
2. Herbs are always a good solution but they still won’t replace the need to clean up your diet. You still have to remove ALL fast foods and all sugary foods. You can do it, as many people have been 100% successful of doing this! Nevertheless, the herbs you can choose to take would be combinations of herbs that help normalize your periods. There are certain herbs that are very specific in that they can support the body’s needs during your periods; ones like chaste tree berry and damiana.
3. Taking vitamins and minerals is exceptionally helpful because the chances are good that you have imbalances in your nutrient stores. Many women are low in calcium and magnesium; both these minerals cause cramping until their levels are replenished. Women low in vitamin B6 are usually the ones who get swelling and congested breasts during their period. Those who are low in B vitamins can be expected to have anxiety and depression. If you do find out you have some deficiencies, think about it as a hidden secret revealed, not some sort of flaw you have. It’s literally impossible for anyone to not have vitamin and mineral deficiencies these days due to diet choices, stress levels, and demands on the body from modern day living. By finding out what you’re low in, you would then know more than 95% of the population – and can reach your health potential. People who don’t even try to look for their deficiencies are in the dark until they decide to do so.
4. A period vitamin is perhaps the best interim choice of what to do for post menstrual symptoms. The reason for this is because it contains all the nutrients your body needs during your menstrual cycle and in between. And because over 50% of the reasons why women get symptoms is because they aren’t giving their body all the nutrients that are needed, it makes good sense that this would work. Many women have already given testimonials on how much benefit they received for premenstrual and postmenstrual syndrome symptoms.