by Women's Health | Sep 5, 2024 | Sexual Health
If you’re like most people with ovaries on earth, you have a hate-hate relationship with PMS. Seriously, what’s to like about premenstrual syndrome, with its ugly calling cards: mood swings, bloating, uncontrollable food cravings and irrational crying fits? The worst...
by Women's Health | Apr 9, 2019 | Health
If you’re the owner of a uterus, you’re familiar with cramps, bloating and the endless list of pre-menstrual symptoms that creep up anywhere between seven and 10 days before the start of your period, leaving you feeling miserable. The type and severity of the symptoms...
by Women's Health | Jul 13, 2018 | Health
It had been happening every two weeks, like clockwork, for five months. The worst attacks involved sharp, blinding pain that seared up the back of my head, along with nausea, fatigue, and light sensitivity. It would go on for hours; sometimes the only solution was...
by Women's Health | Jun 5, 2017 | Health
By Laura Biel What’s really going on during that hellish period prelude? Two weeks before your period Yup, things are already happening way before your period actually hits… Your brain’s pituitary gland unloads two fast-acting agents –...
by Women's Health | Mar 17, 2017 | Health
by Korin Miller; Photography courtesy of Instagram Cramps are the least of it… For most women, getting your period is mildly annoying—there may be some cramps and a little bloating, but it’s otherwise no biggie. But for others, it can be a body-altering...