Lisa- I used to get such bad PMS before I started drinking my daily shake of Revival. It hasn't taken it all away, and there are months worse than others, but overall my PMS has improved. I don't think there is a sure-fire way to rid us of PMS entirely, and if there was, the person that discovered that would be a bizzillionare! Sleep is really important too. REALLY important:D

Hi Lisa -- a couple of years ago I developed SEVERE PMS for about six months & my nurse practitioner wrote me a prescription with the name of a good multivitamin (she prescribed Solgar but she said any brand is okay as long as it is one of the name brands), a good calcium supplement, Vitamin B50 complex (all three B's -- I increased it to B100 on my own), and Vitamin E. (She also prescribed evening primrose oil but I can't take oil pills due to IBS). She made me promise to keep taking them every day for at least six months and said it could take that long to see results, but I started getting major relief in just six weeks . . . by six months my symptoms were mostly gone. Doctors had told me to "try" calcium before, but I never took it long enough, only a couple of weeks and decided it didn't work . . . she got it through my head to take them every day and I was amazed how well they worked!

In double blind studies Calcium does help PMS. I get disabling PMS, which nothing seems to remedy fully. Also, I find keeping the blood sugar on an even keel, by eating something healthy, often, helps somewhat. Then again, when I'm a sobbing, panicked woman, I don't feel too hungry. I swear this will either kill me, or make me stronger. OY VEY~~~~~ I take so many vitamins. Soy, literally, kills my sensitive gut. Oh, the IBS another premenstrual problem. Things get better, but ever so slowly. It seems like two steps forward, one step back.

Bless your heart Chriscarol, this won't kill you! And IN the event it does, then we are ALL right behind you! Even though there are times that we are SURE we won't make it through this, as Dearest says: THIS TOO, shall pass! And it will, SOMEDAY! Soy really does bother your tummy, eh? So far I guess I've been lucky. It doesn't bother mine other than constipation, but I had that BEFORE adding the soy, so can't blame it on that. I do remember once though, a few years ago, trying soy and it did bother me, either that or something else was bothering me and I blamed it on the soy, so stopped drinking it. I'm thinking about trying a 'fiber' drink of some sort to help my bowels out a little. It's a pain in the butt (YIKES!) for sure! Hang in there girl!!! We'll all be in our rocking chairs someday looking back at all of this and SMILING away, because WE MADE IT and men NEVER would have! Huggers! Kleeo

Kleeo, For constipation Metamucil, should help. I can't tolerate that either, as it gives me Major Gas. The list seems to get longer of foods I can't tolerate. Of course, they are healthy foods, so go figure. I couldn't fall asleep, until 5a.m. Up and down, toss and turn!! I hate not being well rested. Hope things are fine in Maine!! You hang in there, as well. Think how relieved we'll be, as I hear there is a calm after the storm of Peri. I'll likely always carry some anxiety, but this has been brutal. Could be worse!! Thanks for the support Kleeo!!!