r/science • u/CookMotor • Nov 02 '24

Neuroscience In a First, Scientists Found Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation

https://www.sciencealert.com/in-a-first-scientists-found-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation
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u/popcorntrio Nov 02 '24

I hope this triggers more research and insight into treatments for PMDD, it’s completely debilitating and has only recently become more widely diagnosed, some treatment options would be life changing for a large proportion of women

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u/determinedpopoto Nov 02 '24

It would be legitimately a life saver for me. I have PMDD that makes me intensely suicidal on top of OCD and PTSD. It's like my brain is just built to want to die. So far the only option doctors will entertain is nonstop birth control to skip periods. It would be life changing to have some sort of medicine or therapy for it other than BC.

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u/Jubjub0527 Nov 03 '24

Have you tried ketamine or any psychedelic treatments? I'd be willing to bet if you could find a therapist who'd talk with you during one of those treatments it would help reset some of the wiring of your brain.

I'm not one for meditation but it is great on psychedelics.

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u/Pastywhitebitch Nov 03 '24

Psychedelic treatments are not indicated for anything remotely like this. It is mostly for trauma induced conditions great success with veterans victims, violence, survivors, etc.

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u/Jubjub0527 Nov 03 '24

It is also used for end of life patients, depression, and anxiety.