Although, let's face it, who else is reading my blog regularly?
For years I've suffered from PMS. Well, I guess Felix has also suffered but in a slightly different way. About a week to 10 days before my period was due I would already start to feel crappy. And crabby, yes. Add to that the actual days I had my period, about half of every month would be crappy for me. What a life!
A friend recommended Evening Primrose Oil to me as it had done wonders for her. I dutifully took the tablets for 5 months or thereabouts. Nothing. Absolutely nothing changed. Since I couldn't figure out anything else, I gave up.
Then, about a year ago I guess, I started drinking green tea again. I had tried it before (on recommendation of another friend) and hated it. It tasted like boiled grass, or what I imaged boiled grass would taste like.
At the time I had given up drinking coffee and was looking for an alternative to drink during the day. I ended up trying green tea again because Twinings had come out with some interesting new flavoured green teas. There was even one with cranberries! Turned out if you poured the water just before it boiled and only let the tea steep for a maximum of 2 minutes it didn't taste like boiled grass but was actually quite tasty.
So I started drinking it daily, some days I had one big mug, others I had two.
A month later I was shocked to have my period very suddenly (but on time) without having had any prior symptoms that would've alerted me. Odd. It took me a while to figure out what I had done differently that month. In the end I came to the conclusion that it was the green tea as I hadn't changed anything else in my diet or habits that month.
One month could well have been a fluke, though. So I paid attention for the next one and the one after that, all the time still drinking my daily cup or two of green tea. And the result was the same. No PMS or hardly any.
I did some (Google powered) research and ended up reading articles about why green tea would either help alleviate your PMS or would do nothing at all for you. So I knew as much as before.
But, either way, I found my PMS "drug" of choice and was able to get rid of this:



