Menstruation and Examinations

The examination period is fast approaching. If you are one of those who suffer from menstrual problems likely to interfere with examination performance make an appointment to sec your doctor now. There are a number of means available to help sufferers of premenstrual symptoms, heavy periods and period pain. Sometimes the most practical solution is to alter the timing of menstruation, advancing it or postponing it to avoid an unwelcome clash. But if this is the help you need act now. Leaving it loo late reduces the number of available options. Come to Student Health and discuss your period planning.

To those who suffer and for anyone interested in reading more about menstrual problems, Fontana paperbacks have published Once A Month by Katherine Dalton, the UK doctor who has pioneered much of the work on this Cinderella subject.

In 1968 the Lancet published the first reported study by Dr Dalton on "Menstruation and Examinations". This clearly showed that menstrual problems impaired examination performance by approximately 5%.