Description

Outline of items discussed during this presentation:

Introduction

• The challenges practitioners face with treating PMS

Defining PMS

• How is PMS diagnosed
• The role, or lack of, for lab testing

Women’s Experience of PMS

• Various ways it can present

PMS vs. PMDD

• Why do these get lumped together
• Similarities and differences

Teaching your patients to cycle track

• Practical ways to monitor

PMS throughout the years

• Differences in treating PMS in teens and reproductive years vs. perimenopause
• Is it really PMS?

PMS and the Stress Response

Treatment Options for PMS