PMS Awareness Week September 10th 2007
7 Aug 2007
PMS Awareness Week is drawing closer. This year NAPS celebrates the further expansion of our trail-blazing “Ask the Experts” service now being joined by Nigel Denby the UK’s leading nutritionist specialising in women’s health.
Nigel is a specialist at Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hospital Women's Health Clinic and the International Eating Disorders Centre in Buckinghamshire. He works extensively with the media, writing for the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Essentials and various other consumer magazines. His work in radio and television includes BBC and ITN news programmes, Channel 4's 'Fit Farm', BBC Breakfast and BBC Real Story. Books include “The 7-Day GL Diet", “The GL Diet” and “Nutrition Diet for Dummies”.
Awareness week will also highlight the lack of PMS awareness amongst some GPs. In particular we will focus on the fact that many women with menstrual related depression are diagnosed as having mental health problems and prescribed anti-depressants with no real account taken of the menstrual trigger for their symptoms. "We will call for an enquiry into the prescribing of SSRI's to women during their reproductive years," says NAPS Chief Executive Chris Ryan.
In the lead up to this important event, NAPS invites you, our members, to send us a brief e-mail of your experience with the NHS and how it has dealt with you as a PMS sufferer. Is the NHS letting you down or do you have a good experience to share? NAPS will then begin to collate the responses ready to conduct a survey.
Please send your responses to healthsurvey@pms.org.uk.
