The goal of treatment is to ease physical and emotional symptoms. PMS is first treated with lifestyle changes. Medicines may be used when symptoms do not get better with these changes.
Treatment choices may be:
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Last reviewed September 2019 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Elliot M. Levine, MD, FACOG