Just When You Thought You Knew the Signs of Fertility: PMS and Heavy Periods Don’t Guarantee a Healthy Female Body
It’s not fun waiting each month for dreaded PMS symptoms to strike. You know the ones we mean: painful cramps, irritability, fatigue, headaches, and a general lack of energy. Even worse, these symptoms don’t come on slowly. They pounce all at once so a woman feels less than her best.
A First Person Perspective on PMS
“My PMS would start about 10 days before my period,” Emily, 36, recalls. “First the tenderness in my breasts – it was so bad, I could only lie on my back to sleep. Then the waking in the middle of the night and being unable to sleep restfully. By the time my period arrived, I was a mess. Tired, cranky, bloated, and unable to concentrate at work.”
As bad as these symptoms sound, they don’t represent the worst that PMS can bring. Some women feel relief a day or two after menstruation starts. But for Emily, the presence of her period only brought more fatigue and discomfort.
“My periods were heavy and painful,” she describes. “I would bleed through a tampon within two hours. I always had to wear bulky pads for added protection, and I wore only black pants to conceal any breakthrough bleeding.” She pauses and sighs. “The bleeding was embarrassing – my husband held me at arm’s length every month because he was afraid of making the situation worse. And the cramping was so intense that some days I couldn’t get out of bed.”
The Untold Link between PMS Symptoms and Infertility
Although her period arrived every month, and her symptoms of PMS surely suggested she could get pregnant, Emily wasn’t able to conceive. She and her husband tried for several years and met only frustration. In a fit of worry after her thirty-fourth birthday, Emily scheduled an appointment with her gynecologist.
“I never dreamed I might have fertility issues,” Emily says. “My periods came every month, hard and heavy, with the same agonizing symptoms each time. I thought that only missed periods pointed to infertility. Clearly, I didn’t even know my own body.”
Emily’s gynecologist explained that heavy periods are usually caused by ovulatory dysfunction. Normally, the ovaries release estrogen and progesterone around the time of ovulation to prepare the body for pregnancy. When a woman fails to become pregnant, those hormones wane and prompt the uterus to shed its lining. This is menstruation.
With ovulatory dysfunction, however, estrogen and progesterone have not been released as normal. This leads to an imbalance and, in response, the uterine lining grows excessively thick. PMS symptoms are therefore more intense, and periods present heavier than normal flows.
“My gynecologist told me that a dysfunction in ovulation can hinder a woman’s chances of becoming pregnant,” Emily says. “All that time, I thought I was healthy because I had my period. If I had paid more attention to my body, and not accepted PMS as an unavoidable discomfort of being female, my husband and I could have started our family much sooner.”
Relief for Even the Most Intense PMS
One of the best ways to manage PMS is with healing herbs. Unlike pain killers designed to mask pain and discomfort, herbs work with the body to regulate hormones and promote a healthy reproductive system. They help expel toxins from the liver, stabilize blood sugar levels and improve ovarian function. (TRY: Herbal PMS Symptoms Relief Formula) The most beneficial formula for PMS and fertility is one that contains such ingredients as False Unicorn Root, Black Cohosh and Cayenne Pepper – all of which reduce menstrual irregularities.
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