Abstract
We have performed a study of the stability in symptom pattern between two consecutive menstrual cycles in patients seeking help for premenstrual syndrome (PMS). The report is based upon daily selfratings, performed by 54 patients seeking help for PMS, during two consecutive ovulatory menstrual cycles. With use of their ratings the patients were diagnosed as; ‘Pure-PMS’, with significant cyclicity but only luteal phase symptoms; ‘PM-aggravation’, with significant cyclicity but symptoms during the whole cycle; or ‘Non-PMS’, without cyclical pattern of the symptoms. The results of the diagnostic procedure from the two cycles were compared with respect to the concordance in presence or absence of cyclical symptom changes and to the presence of symptoms occurring during the preovulatory phase. The results showed that 35 patients (65%) were concordant in the two cycles on behalf of the diagnostic subgroups, but also that 19 patients (35%) changed diagnostic subgroup between cycles. Twelve patients who changed p...
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