Reproductive Endocrinology Ovarian Hormones

Mood, sexuality, hormones, and the menstrual cycle. II. Hormone levels and their relationship to the premenstrual syndrome

Bäckström T, Sanders D, Leask R, Davidson D, Warner P, Bancroft J

Published December 1983 Psychosomatic Medicine, 45(6), 503-507
DOI 10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004 PMID 6686333

Abstract

In women with premenstrual syndrome, negative changes start soon after ovulation gradually increasing as the corpus luteum develops, and reach a maximum during the last 5 days of the luteal phase. They decline rapidly once menstruation starts, disappearing within one or two days of ovarian steroids reaching baseline levels. Positive moods are at maximum when preovulatory estradiol reaches its peak. A comparison of hormone levels in women with high and low degrees of cyclical mood change showed no difference in progesterone, estradiol, testosterone, or androstenedione.

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PMID 6686333 6686333 DOI 10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004 10.1097/00006842-198312000-00004 Bäckström et al. 1983, Bäckström 1983