pms & pmdd

Providing realistic and customized support to help you feel good around your period

How We Can Help

Chances are if you’re here, you’ve been struggling with unexplained PMS symptoms for far too long. If your premenstrual symptoms and fluctuations are ruling your life, you can’t explain why you feel sensitive and emotional, you are uncomfortable and bloated, you’re in pain, or you just don’t feel like yourself around that time of month, you’re in the right place.

Our team is here to help you take the guesswork out of why your PMS symptoms are happening, and provide you with a customized and realistic treatment plan.

What is PMS and PMDD Anyway?

Premenstrual Syndrome refers to the combination of symptoms that some women get the wee or two before their period is expected to start. This combination is unique to everyone and the intensity can vary immensely.

Symptoms of PMS can be both emotional and physical and can include things such as:

• Bloating

• Diarrhea or constipation

• Cramping

• Headache or backache

• Breast swelling and tenderness

• Weight gain

• Water retention

• Mood swings

• Irritability

• Food cravings or changes in appetite

• Changes in sexual drive

• Feeling tired

• Trouble sleeping

• Low mood or depression

• Increased sensitivity to stress

• And much more!

When the emotional symptoms of PMS become particularly intense, so much so that they interfere with daily functioning this can be referred to as premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

PMS and PMDD can vary intensity and can have a profound impact on our ability to function. When left untreated these symptoms can leave you feeling like a different person for two weeks of the month. It is time for you to reclaim your period and not let your PMS have control of ½ of your life.

What To Expect

Whatever your PMS or PMDD symptoms may be, our team will take the time to hear you, meet you where you are at, and teach you how to feel confident and comfortable in your body again. Our ultimate goal is always to dig deeper and find the unique underlying causes of your PMS/PMDD, so that symptoms are corrected – not masked, you feel in control of your hormones, and you begin to see your body as an ally and not the enemy anymore!

Reclaim Your Period: Our 5-Step Program

It’s time to stop your PMS and feel great in your body again! This is exactly why we created the Reclaim your Period. This 5-step program will help reduce your symptoms, teach you body literacy, and take the guesswork out of your PMS/PMDD, so you can get back to feeling like yourself!

our 5-step program

1. Identify Barriers - We complete extremely comprehensive intakes and lab testing to understand your general health status, your hormone status, and identify where things are going wrong. We also send you home to complete symptom monitoring so we can start to pick up on your unique symptom patterns.

2. Support Foundations - This is where your treatment begins. We ensure the foundations of hormone health are in place so your symptoms resolve faster and we’re maintaining these results long-term. This includes correcting things like chronic stress, digestive function, environmental exposures and hormonal imbalances. Often just correcting these and putting them into place is all you need! We teach you how to implement foundational supports in a balanced way so you never feel restricted.

3. Customized & Targeted Supplementation - Once we receive all of your lab results and symptom diary we start targeting treatment specifically to you. This often takes the form of highly concentrated supplementation and is completely based on your unique physiology and barriers. In some cases, bioidentical hormones are recommended.

4. Optimize The Gut - Once foundations are in place, and we’ve removed underlying barriers through targeted supplementation, we look at further optimizing the gut. The gut is the foundation of lasting health in the body and has far-reaching impacts on our hormonal health. Optimizing this system is a must in order to maintain results.

5. Maintenance - Once your initial concerns have been addressed, we create a new plan for you to carry forward to help sustain your results and achieve your long-term health goals. Our goal at this point is that you’ve become such an expert in understanding your own body that you only need us for maintenance support quarterly or bi-annually!

At The Clara Clinic we promise to provide you with balanced, realistic, and individualized support that actually gets to the bottom of your PMS.

If your periods are ruling your life and you want to learn more, we offer complimentary 15 minute consults with our chief Naturopathic Doctor focusing on PMS and PMDD, Dr. Alexandra Sisam.