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| Reference #: | 465 |
| Submit Date: | 20 Jan 2003 |
| Browse Category: | pms |
| Author: | momaearth |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | none |
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| Remedy will cost you: | unknown |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | moma earth |
| More Links about this Remedy: | http://mamaearth.com/pms.html |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 0 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 8,031 |
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| Dosages used in clinical trials are significant: | unknown |
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| Other foods/nutrients/medications that can affect absorption or utilization: | unknown |
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My Experience with PMS: More Questions than Answers
by momaearth http://mamaearth.com/pms.html Before I got pregnant with James I had long standing very severe PMS related depression. After becoming pregnant this miraculously lifted and I continued to feel better after giving birth. Since then, I have had some mild depression, but nothing like it used to be(knock on wood). Yet some women experience the opposite. They felt fine until they got pregnant or gave birth; then they experience depression that sometimes takes years to come out of. It used to be that almost every month right after ovulation I would get severely depressed, increasingly until the day before or of my period I would be suicidal. I knew the pattern, but the feelings were so overwhelming and intense that no logical thinking would help. I would also sometimes become overly energetic and optimistic, always during ovulation. This problem got worse, culminating in my late twenties. The strange thing is that I told several psychiatrists about the pattern, yet none of them would acknowledge or diagnose this as PMS, nor would they address it this way medically. Because my problem was so severe, they wanted "bigger" labels like Major Depression and Manic Depression. The drugs they gave me never directly addressed the hormonal fluctuations I had. Nor did these drugs help me in any way. They still treat PMS with SSRI's (Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors e.g., prozac, paxil,) often to the exclusion of any other treatment options. It's been shown that seratonin levels drop during the last phase of the menstrual cycle in women with PMS. This drop in seratonin does not seem to be the cause of PMS, rather an effect of PMS, which compounds the problem. I don't think the doctors or pharmaceutical companies are directly addressing what is going on in PMS. Although it may seem like the medical community knows a lot about the chemicals and hormones in our brain and body, I think they only understand a small fraction, if that, of what is going on. If you read the forewords and prefaces to neuroscience texts and journals you'll find that this fact is known and admitted. Many doctors tell their patients that they have a chemical imbalance and will probably have to be on meds for the rest of their lives. I've heard them say this to me and many other people. This is so wrong! For one thing, the long term and sometimes immediate outcome of many of these meds is worse than the original affliction. Another reason is that attitude or mind set has been shown to do wonders in healing all sorts of physical conditions in the body. We can change our mind set. I can't claim to have a formula for this because we are all unique. For some, healing occurs over time; for others something just clicks and there is spontaneous healing. But the chemicals and hormones definitely do shift in response to physical changes in our body, thoughts, feelings and spiritual experiences. The holistic healing approach cannot be denied even by current medical scientific researchers. There is definitely healing that occurs and crosses over the imaginary lines between the mind, body and spirit. Some links to more information: http://test.bagus.org/medical/alternative_medicine/conditions/pms.html http://www.nutrition-n-wellness.com/pms.html http://www.wholehealthmd.com/hc/pms/howto_acupressure/1,2227,,00.html |
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