Posted on 12/07/2010 11:17:27 AM PST by NYer
I recall reading something years ago (back in the late 80s I think) about a lot of the *female problems* that women considered fairly normal but problematic (cramps, etc) were because we now had cycles most of our childbearing years. In the past this was not the case, as most women would have cycled a few times, been pregnant, then nursing, then cycled a few times, pregnant, nursing, cycled, etc. At the time, that doctor talked of hormone therapy that would mimic that. I don’t know whatever came of that line of thinking. Seems to make some sense.
I”m sorry, I meant to ping you to my last post, # 61.
you know, only a few of my Catholic patients used natural Family planning, but quite a few of my “green” type patients did, as did some of my Native American patients.
But I’m not sure it’s the pill per se or because if you don’t have children and don’t breast feed, you have a higher risk of breast cancer.
Thought maybe you had missed this one?
I didn’t find labor that horror, either. I was excited about our son’s birth, of course, and there was work to be done. Wouldn’t say it was comfortable — it was just hard work.
Towards the end I did beg for them to take my leg off and just get that baby OUT!! haha, but it is a really amazing delivery system the Lord has created, and kind of spectacularly wonderful to be part of that Plan.
I asked my birth coach — ‘You did that FIVE times?’ But after about an hour I wanted 10 more. Those little bitty babies are so darned cute. (As hulking teenage boys they are quite a bit less so).
Well, if God gave us teenagers FIRST we might just change our minds... ;)
Endometriosis is not spasmodic dysmennorhea. That much I know. I’m not a doctor but I know a couple who are specialists and work with patients who have endo (including me and now, sadly, my little niece).
P.S. I will check on the thiamine. Do you know the recommended dosage for this? Thanks!
Well, the old ‘natural’ herbs etc. for female trouble (blue cohosh, etc.) never made a dent in my discomfort, so we just went with the OB/GYN’s recommendation.
I never tried the herbal route- at that time there was nothing for knowing what was or was not in anything- and my meds did not agree with cohosh so that was contraindicated. When life got totally unbearable I did have the hysterectomy- removed a ton of fibroids and a huge grape fruit sized tumor on the outside of the uterus that was deemed malignant until the path report said not- it was a nasty thing.
I think we miss the boat on alot of the alternate stuff- but until relatively recently not enough fact was separated out from fiction for me to get into that.
However, my granddaughter that recently lost a nearly term baby was not put on meds for milk suppression. The doctor- plain ordinary every day GP had her use cabbage leaves on the skin under the bra and it worked well.
I asked her a few weeks later how it worked and she said it worked fine.
So yes there are things out there.
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