Your doctor will ask you to share some of the physical or mood changes that you have been going through to diagnose PMS. Therefore, it may be helpful to keep a dairy of all the symptoms that you have experienced in the last few months or a symptom chart for several weeks. It will be helpful to include the severity of each symptom as well. Use the scoring criteria below:
Severity scoring for each symptom
0 = No symptom
1= Minimal or slightly apparent to you
2 = Moderate, awareness of symptom but does not affect your daily routine
3 = A lot, continuously bothered by the symptom and/or symptoms interferes with your daily routine
4 = Severe, symptom is overwhelming and/or unable to carry out your daily routine
Your doctor will also go over your medical history to see if you have any conditions with symptoms similar to that of PMS.
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