You know, I could not agreed with you more. I'm a guy and I suffered from PMS. I was once told by a psychiatrist that I was suffering from depression and that I was borderline bipolar. I refused to take the medications that she was offering me and I never saw her again.

 A few years later I was down in Mexico staying with an ex girlfriend of mine who had moved there. One day she made a comment about how I had mood swings. She asked me to visit a friend of hers who is a hormone specialist. The Doctor monitored my hormones for the next about 7 months. Her conclusions were that my testosterone levels were fluctuating quite a bit. More than normal for most guys.

 She said that I wasn't suffering from depression or of a borderline bipolar condition. I had a severe case of Male PMS (Male Pre-Menstrual Stress) also known as IMS (Irritable Male Syndrome). Causing me to be very aggressive at some times, happy some times, depressed and very moody other times.

 The way she explained it to me was that men also have a hormone cycle. But unlike women, men's hormones also change throughout the day. With testosterone levels being the highest in the morning and lowest at night before bed. But that she and other doctors were starting to believe that men also have a monthly cycle. And just as in women, the severity of the mood swings vary a lot.

 Male cycles vary from four to six week cycles. Mine was a five week cycle. Which means that every five weeks I would start “PMSing.” I really thought that it was interesting what my hormone tests had shown such a pattern. Because my hormone pattern matched the mood swing pattern that my girlfriend, her two sisters, her cousin, and roommate came up with. I didn't know but the doctor had asked my girlfriend to keep a calendar in which she and others at home rated my daily mood using a mood scale. The patterns matched perfectly.

 Something interesting that the doctor told me, was that she believed that in some cases men's hormone cycles can be influenced by the hormone cycle of the females around him. In a similar way that women's cycles synchronize after living together for a while. Because I was the only male living with five females in the same house, she felt that I my cycle was likely to change or that at least the severity of my mood swings would change somewhat. Sure enough, at the end of about 5 months, my hormone cycle had indeed changed. It went from about every five weeks to just every four weeks. Closer to that of what is normal for females.

 Since my my cycle changed but my mood swings where just as bad, the doctor me if I was willing to experiment taking some Estridol shots (female hormones). Not a lot but enough to affect my mood swings. She said that I could experience some side effects. Like gynecomastia (some development of the breast tissue), lower sex drive, may be some impotence, becoming more emotional, and some other side effects.

 My girlfriend convinced me to take the Estridol and just a month of Estridol hormone therapy was enough to make a huge change in my mood swings. I mean huge! I've been injecting Estridol for almost a year now and I feel mentally and emotionally better than I ever have in my life. It's amazing what a nasty hormone testosterone really is. How it makes men act more like animals.

 My mood swings, if you can call it that, are still there but they are VERY mild. Sometimes only lasting a few hours. Something that helps a lot is that I have in fact become more emotional. I'm more aware of my emotions as well as that of others and for the first time I can say that I understand women better than ever before, not entirely, but a whole lot better. It has also made me a whole lot more caring and affectionate than before.

 Bottom line is that men also suffer from PMS. I'm proof of that and any women who have been married long enough can tell you the same about their men. To be honest, at first I felt a a bit emasculated, but since I'm not homophobic and I like the changes in me, I believe that it has made me a better person, I can live with it.

 I think that men and women need to realize that we are more alike than we once thought and more than some people we would like to accept. I've read of some "groups", in particular feminist groups, arguing against Male-PMS and Male Menopause. It's as if they fear that men may also suffer from these conditions. What is their fear, I ask myself? I don't know! I only wonder if some day I'll be going through menopause (andropause as is called in men)?