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How Exercise Changes the Menstrual Cycle

February 1, 2011 By Leslie Carol Botha 1 Comment

Livestrong.com

January 2011
Overview

Having a regular menstrual cycle is a sign that your body is working normally. There are a lot of hormones at work during menstruation, and your cycle can be affected by many things, including exercise. Some types of exercise can change the menstrual cycle so it is infrequent or absent, which is called amenorrhea. Many negative health conditions may result from exercising too vigorously. Exercise can also change your cycle in a positive way if you suffer from intense symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.

Filed Under: Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Mothers & Daughters, Ovulation, Periods, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Wellness, Women's Health

Menstrual Migraines: The Hormonal Nightmare

November 11, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

Yahoo News

Angela Hazel – Mon Nov 8, 11:58 am ET

Migraines affect millions of women a year. On an average, three times more women than men suffer from migraines. Many of these women are actually suffering from a particular type of headache, called menstrual migraines. They make their presents known from one day to one week prior to the start of the menstrual cycle. They can last from one day to a week after the end of a woman’s cycle. Menstruation and hormonal changes are the most common causes of migraines in women.

Filed Under: Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Migraines, Periods, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Women's Health Tagged With: Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Women's Health

Scans Show How Hormone Levels Affect Female Brain

October 26, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

U.S. News Health
Fluctuations during menstrual cycle may influence processing of emotional information, study finds

Posted: October 26, 2010

TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) — Hormone levels at certain phases of the menstrual cycle affect women’s emotional responses, finds a new study.

Researchers used MRI to study the brains of women who viewed a series of pictures and rated them as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. This test was repeated at different stages of the women’s menstrual cycles.

Filed Under: Aging, Hormone Cycles, Memory Loss, Menopause, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Mothers & Daughters, Natural Cycles, Ovulation, Periods, PMDD, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Science, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Women's Health

Feel waterlogged?

August 7, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

Gynaecologist Dr Suman Bijlani tells you how to battle the bloating caused by water retention

Mumbai Mirror

Posted On Friday, August 06, 2010 at 02:09:01 AM

Why is it that on some days, you wake up with bags under your eyes? Or your ankles look swollen towards night? On other days you feel bloated all over without any apparent reason. Blame these and other symptoms on something as basic and necessary as water levels in your body.

Filed Under: Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension Tagged With: Hormone Cycles, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome

Flojuggler: For The Man Who Knows Nothing Is More Terrible Than A Woman’s Period

July 30, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

The Frisky

Posted by: Jessica Wakeman Filed in: news
12:10PM, Friday July 30th 2010

Men, are periods wrecking havoc on your lives? Everywhere you turn is there a woman eating a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or unwrapping a Tampax? Does this concern you? You never have to be blindsided again by leaving your man-cave only to confront the terror that is menstruation.

Filed Under: Men's Health, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Periods, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension Tagged With: Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome

This is another post about menstruation. Sorry. But not too sorry.

July 8, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

Impalpable Earth & Unattainable Sky

July 7, 2010

I was relaying the ins and outs of my day to my mother, when I got to the part about having to admit to my professor that no, I was not running a fever or suffering from some contagious disease–my problems were probably menstruation-related.

My mother’s response? “You didn’t actually say that, did you?” (“That” being “I think it’s menstrual-related.”)

Right. So, after an afternoon spent telling myself, “No, it’s okay, he asked about your health, you don’t have to be embarrassed,” it turns out that, yes, actually, I should be embarrassed about it.

Filed Under: Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Mothers & Daughters, Periods, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Teens, Women's Health Tagged With: Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Synthetic Hormones

Real Life: From curse to blessing

May 10, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

Most women resort to painkillers to deal with period pain but there is another way to solve this monthly malaise — you just need to pay attention to your cycle
Independent.ie

Dublin, Ireland

By Ailin Quinlam

Monday May 10 2010

YOU either put up with the cramps, the crankiness and the headaches or you pop a painkiller because these are the only options for period pain, right? Wrong, according to psychotherapist Alexandra Pope, who says there is another way.

Filed Under: Holy Hormones Honey! The Greatest Story Never Told, Hormone Cycles, Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Natural Cycles, Periods, PMDD, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension, Teens, Women's Health Tagged With: Hormone Imbalance, Menstrual Cycle

It’s not like every woman suffers from PMS, why me?

April 8, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

Alan Jacobs MD’s Blog

February 10, 2010

A large subset of women suffer from premenstrual syndrome(PMS), with a smaller subset (around 2-5%) suffering the more severe premenstrual dysphoric disorder(PMDD). Why not all women? More broadly, what circumstances land a person into the care of a neuroendocrinologist?

Filed Under: Hormone Cycles, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Menstrual Cycle, Menstruation, Mothers & Daughters, Periods, PMDD, PMS, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Premenstrual Syndrome, Premenstrual Tension Tagged With: Menstruation, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome

Distinction between Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) & PMS

March 26, 2010 By Leslie Carol Botha Leave a Comment

Institute for the Study of Healthcare Organizations and Transactions

Introduction

An article in the Wall Street Journal (July 7, 2000) reports that the antidepressant, fluoxetine, marketed as an antidepressant by Eli Lilly under the trade name “Prozac”, will also be marketed under the new trade name “Sarafem” for treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), a cluster of emotional, motivational, cognitive, and behavioral changes which occur in regular association with elevated estrogen levels immediately prior to, or during the early phases, of menstruation.