There is a lot of confusing, outdated, and just plain wrong information out there about PMDD, especially since it was included in the DSM-V in 2013 and companies with PMDD products to market jumped into the fray. I read every link I can find on PMDD and have uncovered several true gems of information. I've placed links to this information all the way down the right side of this page. I update these links regularly, and choose them based on questions asked most often in Facebook groups. So if you want to save yourself a lot of time, frustration, and dead ends, just click on these links for the most reliable info on PMDD I've found to date.
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Hi Liana,
ReplyDeleteI am writing to thank you for all your time and energy and hard work spent researching and sharing information about this illness with everyone.
PMDD is recent news for us, and it is my belief that my daughter may have had this condition for a considerable time but did not know about it. Her condition seems to have been aggravated by the synthetic progestin she was absorbing from her birth control implant. She had also recently changed her diet, and lost 13 kgs in the last four months. Your information about the effects of this for her have made perfect sense, as her psychological suffering increased considerably during the time she lost this weight. She had the added stresses of moving house, lack of money and Christmas which all seem to have impacted on her with disagreements arising with her father, her partner and her sister. On day three of her last luteal phase it all became too much, and we lost her to suicide two days before Christmas.
I am upset to discover that the adverse effects of synthetic progestins are known by Women's Health Research organisations, yet this information is not widely circulated through the medical profession and family planning clinics. They are only concerned with the contraceptive issues of convenience and reliability, and rarely have knowledge that these chemicals are harmful to some women.
Please keep up your very valuable writing, insight and information, as it is vital to make women aware of what is happening in their bodies and could prevent further tragedies like ours : (
rose