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title: Do women's voices change before their period? | Niyora
description: Yes. About one in three women experience voice problems starting 4-5 days before their period. When 97 women with this problem were given vitamins, blood flow
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/sex-hormones-and-the-female-voice-1999/
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Survey study, 1999

# Do women's voices change before their period?

Yes. About one in three women experience voice problems starting 4-5 days before their period. When 97 women with this problem were given vitamins, blood flow medicines, and anti-swelling drugs, 84 improved.

 Early or limited evidence

97 women with voice problems that occur before their period

## What they did

The researchers studied 97 women who had voice problems before their period. They examined their vocal cords with a camera and found swelling and congestion. They then treated these women with multivitamins, medicines to improve blood flow, and anti-swelling drugs.

## What they found

84 out of 97 women showed improvement in their voice problems after treatment. The problems included fatigue, loss of range, loss of power, and loss of harmonics. Problems typically occurred 4-5 days before menstruation.

## What it means for you

Voice changes can happen to about one in three women before their period, especially those who use their voice professionally like singers and teachers. These changes are caused by physical swelling of the vocal cords. Treatment helped most women. The main limitation is that this study had no control group, so we cannot be completely certain the treatment caused the improvement.

33%

of women who experience premenstrual voice syndrome

97

women in the treatment study

84

showed improvement with treatment

## About the study

Original title Sex hormones and the female voice Authors Abitbol J, Abitbol P, Abitbol B Journal Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation Year 1999 Study design Survey study Participants 197 What was tested Multivitamins, venous tone stimulants (medicines to improve blood flow), and anti-swelling drugs Read the paper [doi.org/10.1016/s0892-1997(99)80048-4](https://doi.org/10.1016/s0892-1997(99)80048-4)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Fatigue and energy](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-fatigue/)[Estradiol, progesterone and hormone therapy](https://niyora.com/research/topics/treatment-hormone-therapy/)[Perimenopause and menopause](https://niyora.com/research/topics/comorbidity-perimenopause/)[Adolescents and young people](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-adolescents/)

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