Vitamin B1 For PMS Symptom Relief

[Dan W]

The effects of vitamin B1 on ameliorating of mental symptoms of the premenstrual syndrome
(h/t Flávio, full text here)

Dosage / regimen:

"...one [100mg] pill in the morning and one pill at night during one week before menstruation (at the end of the luteal phase)"

 

[dfspcc20]

Thanks for this! Now to figure out how to show it to my wife without suggesting that she has PMS...

 

[lindsay]

What constitutes "Mental Symptoms" do you think? Brain fog? Moodiness? Tiredness? Depression is obvious, but I'm curious if it was just mental clarity across the board.......

 

[Dan W]

What constitutes "Mental Symptoms" do you think?

It looks like a bunch of different things were affected:

Maximum reduction of severity was observed in symptoms, including anxiety (96%), depression (80.4%), sleep disorder (80.24%), fatigue (73.88%), poor concentration (70.51%), tension (55.2%), incompatibility (39%), suicidal ideation (18%), headache (8.38%), flatulence (7.98%), and breast tenderness (7.33%). Minimum reduction of severity was observed in symptoms, including the decreased libido (0.94%), desire to eat sweets (2.42%), limb edema (2.6%), forgetfulness (3.44%), and palpitations (3.71%).

It's funny that it didn't "help" the desire to eat sweets. And I wonder what's meant by "incompatibility."