Choose Nature Instead of Prozac for PMS and PMDD

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As reported in the Best Years in Life Health News

 

Choose Nature Instead of Prozac for PMS and PMDD

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 by: Tony Isaacs (see all articles by this author)\

 

(NaturalNews) Thanks to a recent question in the Ask Tony Isaacs

Curezone forum, I discovered that it appears to be common to prescribe

the dangerous drug Prozac for PMS -- at least in the United States,

that is. Not only that, but it is evidently often prescribed not by the

Psychiatrists who successfully lobbied the FDA for approval over the

objections of the WHO (World Health Organization), but by ordinary

ob/gyn doctors who are making diagnosis of a specially created

condition the psychiatrists came up with to justify prescribing it: Pre

Menstrual Distress Disorder, or PMDD.

 

The initial question asked in the forum was :

 

"Went to the ob/gyn yesterday. I am well into premenopause and he

diagnosed me with PMDD. No doubt my PMS is getting worse as I get

older. He wants me to start on Prozac

for several days a month before I get my period to help with my

symptoms. I don't want to go on Prozac or hormone therapy. What can I

use naturally to help my symptoms? I think I need to revamp my diet as

well. How can I ease into a diet change slowly so as not to overwhelm

myself all at once? Also, any supplements I should add? I know there

are lots of questions, but I NEED HELP! Thanks."

 

My initial reaction was one of shock and outrage. Prozac for PMS? What

the heck was an ob/gyn doing prescribing that scary drug? And what was

PMDD anyway? A quick check of Wikipedia made it all too clear:

 

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