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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:23:30 EDT
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Summary: Why do people act as if it's not treatable and controllable?

> 
> Some on the women that I've gone out with, some XSO's
> and some co-workers have, from time-to-time, experienced pretty radical
> personality shifts.  The delta of the shift seems to be consistent.
> And when it's with an SO, XSO, ex-wife, or close friend, they'll
> often state "I'm getting my period.  Sorry I  at you".
> The  is different in each of them, and oftentimes there
> is no change.  But when there is, it is recognizable.  Remember the
> poster a while ago who stated that he was able to recognize when each of
> the three women that he roomed with was getting their period?  Same thing
> holds for me.  So maybe it is reasonable to recognize the
> same shift in others and to attribute it to the same thing that

Why do people act as if PMS is untreatable and uncontrollable?  It's
caused by water retention and excess fluid surrounding the brain.
The symptoms are due to pressure of the excess water on the brain. 
Reducing salt in the diet, drinking cranberry juice or taking a
diruetic (natural one can bought at any vitamin store) can control
the problem.  I am not an M.D. and this should not be construed as
a physicians's advice, but people are acting as if PMS is some
kind of terminal, incurable disease, when it's only a minor
problem.