PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) affects over 25% of women. For 10% of us, the symptoms can be debilitating - literally a monthly headache - and worse.

Symptoms appear between twelve and five days before your period and disappear as it starts. You may feel tired, irritable, become forgetful, and unable to sleep. Headaches, back and breast pain, abdominal bloating, or weird food cravings are all common complaints.

But it’s not just ‘your time of the month’. Homeopaths understand that PMS is usually related to a hormone imbalance, and if you’re trying to get pregnant, this is something to be addressed as it may be preventing conception.

Hormone imbalances can result from a combination of physical and emotional factors and have a tendency to run in families, plus long-term chronic stress may also contribute. If you’ve just come off the pill it may take a while for things to re-balance themselves.

A diet which is high in processed foods, animal fats, dairy and refined sugar, and low in whole grains, fruit and veg can make you more prone to PMS symptoms. And a lack of vitamins such as A, C, E and B complex may also make the problem worse.

Homeopathic treatment could help rebalance your hormones and rid you of PMS symptoms, rather than masking them with painkillers, antidepressants or diuretics.

So you don’t have to put up with PMS, and rebalancing your hormones could help your fertility too!