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How to Manage PMS Before It Starts
• Plan around PMS symptoms. Try to make appointments,
take classes, and plan vacations around your monthly
schedule. This includes dinner parties, extended shopping
trips, and having overnight guests.
• Don’t make any major decisions while you are having
PMS symptoms. Keep a calendar handy with your cycle
marked. Don’t change jobs or end relationships. When
you feel the most frustrated, write down the problem and
deal with it after your period.
• Remind your family of your PMS difficulties. Share when
you will experience the most problems and ask for help.
Tell them to gently remind you that this is something that
will pass and urge them to support your efforts to be as
normal as possible during that time.
• Take good care of yourself throughout your cycle so that
you feel your best at the end of it. Nap, rest, read, take a
walk, do what you need to help yourself so that you are a
positive influence on those around you.