PMDD - the potentially debilitating form of PMS

PMDD is the potentially debilitating form of PMS. Yet most women do not know what it is, let alone whether they have it. Deirdre Reynolds reports.

BESET by that familiar sense of foreboding each month, most women reach for the hot water bottle and chocolate in a bid to “Outsmart Mother Nature”, as Tampax once put it.

For Catherine Stocker, the year-round battle with PMS is so extreme that the mum of two has had to quit her job and is even considering a hysterectomy in a bid to get her life back.