# Do Girls Get PMS Before Their VERY FIRST Period? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 29, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252 "2001-01-29T13:10:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252/21 "2001-02-11T08:49:22Z")
I know this answer ain’t gonna help for sure, but for a fact, women don’t get no PMS until after they get married. Nothing to do with menstruation at all, menstruation just got a bad rap. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252/22 "2001-02-11T20:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I know this answer ain’t gonna help for sure, but for a fact, women don’t get no PMS until after they get married. Nothing to do with menstruation at all, menstruation just got a bad rap. Ooooh. Cite. Especially if it’s a fact. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252/23 "2001-02-11T21:07:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Major Feelgud \* > \*\*…but for a fact, women don’t get no PMS until after they get married. Nothing to do with menstruation at all,… \*\* Do unmarried women not suffer from PMS? Do divorced women stop feeling it when they first leave or when they see a lawyer? Do widows stop having PMS at the moment of their husbands’ deaths or after the will is read? Do brides get PMS as soon as they say “I do” or during their first menstruation as a married woman? What factors protect an unmarried woman from PMS? If I never marry Drachillix and just keep on being his lovebunny, will I never suffer from PMS? I have so many questions for Major Felgud! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252/24 "2001-02-11T22:09:32Z")
I don’t know if I did or not. But I was 13 and always in a bad mood. For several years I was incredibly cranky. It wasn’t until I was about 17 that I started noticing that I only got really bitchy a couple of days before my period. I suspect any PMS previous to that got lost in the general hormonal onslaught. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252/25 "2001-02-12T03:18:08Z")
Come on, don’t you guys have a sense of humor? ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252/26 "2001-02-12T16:50:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by even sven \* > \*\*If it helps, I didn’t get PMS symptoms until several years after I began. In the beginning I thought I was so lucky to be spared, but then one day, years later, I was struck down by increadable pain. It took me a couple months to realize that the pain was connected to my period, and I have suffered ever since. \*\* My wife had the same experience. Sometime last year (@ 23 years of age) she started getting bad lower back pains, nausea, etc., and didn’t know why. She finally realized it was PMS, and was really pissed off b/c she had never had any pain before. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-girls-get-pms-before-their-very-first-period/52252.md?page=1)