PMDD & Hormonal Mood Changes
NATUROPATHIC CARE FOR PMDD & HORMONAL MOOD CHANGES
A whole-person approach to PMDD and hormone-related mood changes, looking at your menstrual cycle, nervous system, hormones, nutrition, sleep and overall health to understand the bigger picture.
When your mood changes every month, it can feel like you're not quite yourself.
You may feel relatively like yourself for part of the month, only to experience intense anxiety, irritability, sadness, overwhelm or emotional reactivity in the days before your period.
When the symptoms ease once your period begins, it can be difficult to understand what's happening — especially when you feel like you're becoming a different version of yourself every month.
You feel like yourself again — and then your period gets closer.
You may be experiencing :
Intense irritability or emotional reactivity before your period
Anxiety, overwhelm or feeling on edge
Feeling unusually sad or emotionally low
Mood swings or feeling unlike yourself
Increased sensitivity or difficulty managing stress
Feeling angry or easily frustrated
Brain fog or difficulty concentrating
Changes in sleep before your period
Changes in appetite or cravings
Breast tenderness, bloating or other PMS symptoms alongside mood changes
Symptoms that consistently worsen in the days before your period
Feeling significantly better once your period begins
It's not just about having “bad PMS.”
PMDD involves a pattern of significant emotional and physical symptoms that occur in the days before your period and improve around the start of menstruation.
Rather than assuming your symptoms are simply caused by “imbalanced hormones,” we'll look at how your menstrual cycle interacts with your nervous system, mental health, sleep, nutrition and overall health.
Your cycle can give us important clues.
We'll look at when your symptoms happen, what they feel like and how they change throughout your cycle.
Understanding these patterns can help distinguish cyclical mood changes from symptoms that may be present throughout the month, while also identifying other factors that could be contributing to how you're feeling.
You don't have to feel like a different person every month.
If your mood, anxiety or emotional wellbeing changes dramatically before your period, let's look at the bigger picture together.
Virtual naturopathic appointments are available across Ontario.
PMDD is a severe form of premenstrual mood disturbance in which emotional and physical symptoms consistently worsen during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and improve around the start of your period.