What causes premenstrual syndrome?

What causes premenstrual syndrome?

Michael Tahery (Obstetrician & Gynecologist) gives expert video advice on: What causes premenstrual syndrome?; Are there alternative treatments that will help premenstrual syndrome? and more...

We really don't know. There has been many theories. Some feel that it's emotionally related, some feel that it's hormonally related. There have been many treatments have been offered from oral treatments and anti-anxiety medications and so on and so forth. None has worked for everybody. Premenstrual syndrome has responded to some anxiety medications better than hormonal treatments, but there are a lot of birth control pills now that we use that have been approved for premenstrual syndrome of certain kinds of symptoms also. So there are many different possible ideologies or causes but it's not clear and most likely, again, every -- depending on the symptom, the cause is different and eventually once we learn more about it then we're better.