One Viral Tweet Made Nigerian Women Start Talking Honestly About PMDD

What was meant to be an honest conversation about periods became an online discussion about women’s health. On 5 October 2025, a Nigerian X (formerly Twitter) user, @Fayokunmii, posted a tweet calling on women to openly share their menstrual stories. 

Her call to make period talk the norm quickly went viral, gathering thousands of responses from women re-living their very own histories with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) that afflicts an estimated 5–8 per cent of women worldwide.

How It Started

Fayokunmi tweeted about how she battled PMDD and how it nearly went unnoticed for years. She shared that her journey to diagnosis was not a simple one; she sought out a psychiatrist in 2023 after decades of misinterpreting symptoms as anxiety and depression.

Aside from the awakening, she made lifestyle changes that helped her deal with PMDD: maintaining an active level, indulging in self-care rituals, wearing cute lingerie, drinking regularly, avoiding strong scents, lighting candles, and taking mindful walks, even when the fatigue was too much to handle.

Just randomly remembered that I’m on my period and cramps are killing me https://t.co/kOa5QHMU2H

— k

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