"Mom, I can't figure out what's wrong with me? I cry all the time over nothing. I'm cranky and down right mean." This is great, mom calls long distance and I waste her dime sobbing into the telephone like I was still a little girl and lost in the dark. This is ridiculous.
"It sounds like PMS to me". She was saying when my attention snapped back to the conversation.
"PMS? What is PMS?
"It's a hormonal imbalance. Usually occurs in older women but more and more younger women are experiencing it. You should see a doctor right away, some women get it so bad that they end up in mental institutions. There are lots of doctors who don't believe in it so make sure you find one who does."

I was 35 years old at the time of that conversation. And didn't go to the doctor at that time because I couldn't afford it. I have learned over the years that unhealthy thyroid glands, as well as other glands in the body not functioning properly, can cause symptoms we describe as PMS.

My PMS began with continuous crying 1 week out of the month. I cried if I broke a fingernail, I cried if the weather was lousy, I cried if my husband looked questioningly at me, I cried if my friends asked, "How are you?", I cried if my cakes didn't turn out, if my car was low on gas, if my husband was late for dinner by 10 minutes, if my clothes didn't look just right, and if I couldn't do anything with my hair I'd throw the brush down and cry for 5 minutes. And then a new symptom appeared....paranoia.

I began looking for reasons why I was crying: Because my husbands mean to me...he doesn't understand me....he doesn't care about me....he didn't take the garbage out...he doesn't love me because I'm overweight/underweight..I look awful and it's his fault for not paying any attention to me...everyone is against me...they're looking at me...she was rude...he did that on purpose...and he says he loves me, ha...(and the last straw) he dared to speak to me...now PMS is lasting for a couple of weeks out of a month and another symptoms appears....Anger.

I'm soooo mad because I'm crying...I'm sick of crying...Why am I so mad? There must be a good reason..(so I look for one). My friends aren't coming over any more (sick of listening to me whine), so fine, just fine, see if I care...my husband actually asked me if I wanted him to take out the garbage? Noooo, I wanted it to build up in the kitchen so I could smell it all the time!!@#!%$#@! He compliments my cooking but I know he didn't really like it...he thinks the outfit I'm wearing looks nice, brother, he doesn't think I look in the mirror? He's just trying to humor me, the louse! He's opening the car door for me? Since when? Oh, No! There's another woman...oooo...you've had it buddy! Now another symptom appears...depression.

I'm not getting out of bed today...I don't feel like doing housework..no one calls...no one cares...my husband doesn't love me any more...I'm useless...worthless...maybe I'll just stay in bed forever...but I can't do that right now because I have to find out if my husbands having an affair.

And then I get up one morning and the world is fine again....of course my husbands not seeing anyone, where did I get such an idea...my friends call when they have the time, maybe I should call them...O what a sweety he took the garbage out....the dinner was good wasn't it, I out-did myself....I love you, dear, you are so good to me. He looks at me like I've grown another head. And the cycle begins again. I wake up one morning crying...then paranoia sets in and then it turns to anger...then depression..sometimes up to 3 weeks out of a month.

Suicide is not an option for me and shouldn't be for anyone reading these words. I've always been against suicide, at first, because I thought it was a sign of weakness but as I grew in the Lord I came to realize God has a plan and no matter how rough the road is it's not my right to destroy what he created. Me. And I once heard a story when I was a very young girl about a guy who tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head and the bullet scraped the inside of his skull (without entering the brain) and came out the other side, leaving him with one big headache along with some other problems. I always thought this would, typically, be the kind of thing that would happen to me. I'd manage to mess up the suicide attempt and end up crippled, blind or something and still here.

My husband and I are in his pick-up, we are driving to town. I am on PMS. There is a sad song playing on the radio. I'm thinking, "My life sucks....I'm so unhappy..no one cares...I should kill myself...WHAT? I don't think that!! I don't believe in suicide...Satan, you get away from me in the name of Jesus, this is PMS and I've weathered a lot worse..I think?..I remember when...and the tears come and the depression gets worse and then I get angry and it just seems to go on and on. However, Satan, made a mistake and revealed himself when he suggested suicide to me.

Two years later I hear about a NATURAL hormone!! Yes!! Yes!! I started taking this hormone and still do, everyday, it has helped me a great deal. I'd cry the first and last day of my cycle (so I knew when they were coming and going) and I'd be a little irritable sometimes but almost never irrational and paranoid. Depression was light and came and went at various times. I also discovered stress played a major role in the degree of intensity of symptoms. As a matter of fact, if my stress level was really high it would cause me to have PMS long before it was due and the symptoms would be intense. And now that you know I've had PMS let me share with you why I no longer DO PMS. I do still take hormones because they are important to my bodies health (bones among other things) but I no longer believe I have to suffer with mental instability.

I went to visit my sister-in-law and guess what, she was on PMS. I sat there listening to her and heard myself and watched all my symptoms manifesting themselves while she was crying and telling me all about why she was crying. I told her it was just PMS and PMS magnifies every little problem into giant overwhelming problems and all the emotions didn't have to come from any source ("it's all my husbands fault" or "God is punishing me for something") other than a chemical imbalance. I recommended she get the same hormone I was taking and she told me she didn't believe in PMS.

I know PMS is real, I've suffered with it for 12 years and watched other women suffer the same symptoms. However, I went home and started thinking about what she had said. PMS is everything negative and it keeps women from being effective Christians..there is something wrong with this picture, and I remembered the time I had thought about suicide and the verse in the Bible, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman..." (Gen.3:15).

And then the facts:

PMS is real, however, it's only a hormonal imbalance so where are these emotions coming from? We are women and, therefore, run on emotions so what better way to make us ineffective in our walk with the Lord? By using our emotions against us? Has he convinced us it's physical when in reality he is causing all this upheaval inside us? An old wounded lion looks for easy prey. Prey that is sick, helpless, lost and confused. 1 Peter 2:24. I decided to find out.

"Satan, I DO NOT DO PMS! Not now, not next week, not ever again!" When I found myself crying; angry; depressed; or strange thoughts began running through my mind, I would repeat: "Satan, I DO NOT DO PMS, in Jesus name." Guess what? That's right. I stopped having the worst of the emotional symptoms almost immediately. And every woman I've shared this with has also had great success.

In Psalms 103:3 it says, "He forgives all our sins "AND" heals all our diseases". BEFORE Jesus died on the cross for our sins He healed us. (Matt.4:23; 9:35). If we are converted we are healed, it wasn't just Jesus' compassion but an example to us all. Not to mention that if He took such a terrible whipping so we could be healthy (Isaiah 53:5) and we are sick all the time, then did He take the whipping for nothing? Also notice that many times we find sickness in the same verses with evil spirits. (Matt.10:1; Luke 6:18; 9:42).

Yes, I know about the ONE verse that says, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the son of God might be glorified by it". (John 11:4). And if your illness is glorifying God then by all means this verse is for you. But if it isn't glorifying God then don't let the enemy convince you it is.

Sisters, I submit to you that Satan is playing with our minds. We are the glue that holds our families together. We are our husbands emotional strength. We are our sister's strong pillars in time of need. When we recognize the enemy we don't run from him but at him. But if he makes us sick we are helpless and if he throws in PMS we are wandering in confusion and emotional chaos.

I ask you, my sisters, to consider my words and take back your land, all of it. We are believers with a job to do, WE CANNOT BE SICK AND WE CANNOT DO PMS. It is time we take a stand as one against the enemy and take back what is rightfully ours, our health. "By Jesus stripes we are healed." Do we or don't we believe what the Bible says? Please, stand with me in prayer against the enemy over all our sisters and we will never again do sickness or PMS.

And let us be witness to all the world that whether it is spirit,
mind or body, Jesus is the Healer!!!

It is important to realize that natural hormone therapy will keep your bones from becoming brittle as they age so most woman should be on a hormone. I highly recommend Dr. Helen Pensanti's because she is a Christian doctor who through prayer came up with a natural hormone for woman. Originally she called it "Answered Prayer" and another one "Heaven Sent" but now that she has had to go into big time marketing they've changed the names. There is phone number on her site and they will be very pleased to help you decide the product best for you.

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