This is a letter I recently wrote while on the path to regaining my health, my sanity and my life in general! I think it is past time to take charge of our health and share what we discover with the ones we love! Here is the letter; I hope it helps someone. If so, let me know!Dear Friends; An urgent plea and testimony to my friends and family.
I am compelled to share a testimony with you about how my life has recently changed because of some drastic health improvements. I’d like to be able to tell you that I have carefully followed the instructions of my doctor, and in so doing, found relief from not only the symptoms that have been increasingly plaguing me for over a year, but also the fear and emotional strain that accompanies such things. I can’t do that, because it’s not true.
What is true is that after untold hours of research on topics surrounding women’s health, I put into place a regime of changes and supplements that have turned my life around in less than three months! These changes have been summarily discarded by the medical professionals in my life, and have flown directly in the face of “conventional” medicine and the modern pharmaceutical “wisdom” (or shall we say manipulation or even abuse?!).
Most of you know that I am 46 years old (good grief, how did that happen?) For over a year, my monthly cycles have become increasingly painful. Although they had been getting bad for some time, last April (2007), when we traveled out of town to represent a company at a homeschool conference, I had such terrible pain for over two days that I came within a hair of going to the emergency ward – only the prospect of sitting there for hours in the middle of the night, kept me in bed, writhing and moaning, and waiting for a measure of relief from the overdose of ibuprofen that I had just taken.
With this kind of scenario being repeatedly played out over the past year, I was getting to the point of hoping for a hysterectomy before we leave for a five week vacation this coming summer. How could I contemplate perhaps sitting on a plane, a train, or facing a day of sightseeing when my “time” came at least once, and maybe twice during our absence? It was unthinkable! How could I survive that, when I couldn’t even walk down the hall without help from my husband, or sometimes could not even get out of bed in the night to use the washroom or take medication? Everyday functions became difficult, excruciating, or impossible. Toilet functions were painful, I couldn’t stand up straight, I often had a headache, my belly was painful to touch and I could hardly sleep at night, and often could not turn over in bed! I was reduced to tears at the mere thought of an approaching period.
After a follow-up ultrasound of my abdomen (had one just over a year ago too), and a routine pelvic exam, my physician told me that a fibroid tumor in my uterus had doubled in size and that I had a new ovarian cyst (I’ve had surgery twice in the past 20 years for this). She talked about putting me on the “pill” (read estrogen). Consequently, she sent me to a gynecologist.
Six weeks before I saw the gynecologist, I had begun taking some supplements http://www.vitalhealthfoods.ca/lorna/EstroSense/EstroSense031newPI.pdf recommended to support female hormone balance. I showed the information to the doctor, foolishly and naively thinking he would be interested, since in the six weeks of taking them, I had begun to experience some significant improvement in my symptoms. He had little to say except that “the placebo effect is well researched”!! As much as to say: “Well, dear, if you like to spend money on placebos, you go right ahead; I guess they won’t hurt you”. His answer? More estrogen! and perhaps later, a hysterectomy!!
Meanwhile, I was continuing my research about PMS, pre-menopause, menopause, cancer risks, estrogen dominance, plastics, xenoestrogens (foreign estrogen-like molecules) and more. I ordered some natural progesterone cream from the US (because it is not available except by prescription in Canada) and began using it just two weeks ago. (The site is below ** and I ordered their into. pack with two cd’s, three pumps of Happy PMS cream, and a book “What Your Doctor May NOT tell You About PreMenopause”)
I am currently experiencing a near-pain-free menstrual cycle. I have not had a headache worth mentioning for several weeks. I have had just a little cramping this cycle (which I anticipate dropping to none within a month or two). There is no tenderness in my abdomen or breasts; I can walk, run, cook, and vacuum. The flow of blood is much less and I have taken only a little ibuprofen in three days where I normally would be popping them every four hours, and sometimes taking more than recommended along with acetaminophen with codeine, a heating pad and a lot of sympathy from my family!
If you have ANY pms symptoms: bloating, breast tenderness, pain, moodiness, depression, or painful menses, heavy flow etc; if you have had or are thinking about having a hysterectomy, have a family history of breast, ovarian, or uterine cancer; if you are concerned about or know you already have a problem with osteoporosis; if you are or have been on HRT (hormone replacement therapy), Provera (synthetic progestin – NOT to be confused with progesterone) or the Pill; if you are aging quickly, have foggy thinking, lethargy, have trouble getting or staying pregnant…
PLEASE look up some of the information provided on these web sites. If you do not have internet access, please contact me and I will provide you with further information. I’m not selling anything – just the information that might help you or others you know, to live a normal life!
http://www.johnleemd.com/store/estrogen_dom.html
http://www.drlam.com/A3R_brief_in_doc_format/Estrogen_Dominance.cfm
http://www.yourlifesource.com/estrogen-dominance.htm
And for your husband, brother, father, son or uncle… (this is for prostate concerns as well!!)
http://www.yourlifesource.com/estrogen-dominance.htm
For Menopause, Pre-Menopause, Prostate and other cancer concerns…
Here is the site of the company from which I purchased the progesterone cream in the states. It is sent as a “moisturizing body cream” and gets through customs. They are very helpful, give fast service and are a reliable progesterone supplier (not all creams are created equally – some have little/none/too much progesterone in them). If you live near me, we can order it together and save quite a bit. Let me know if you are interested.
You can also buy an inexpensive, easy-to-use saliva testing kit to test your progesterone levels. Blood tests do not show a reliable result because they test the blood serum and the progesterone is carried mainly by the red cells. Okay, here it is…
http://www.happypms.com/
Also, for those of you who are a little older, or have ageing parents, this is also significant for them! Estrogen dominance is not just a problem for child-bearing years and middle age! Progesterone is used by all kinds of body systems: brain function, cell health, adrenal function, skin, eyes, nerve sheath repair (myelin sheath), prostate health, testosterone production, respiratory system, and more.
Our modern world is flooded with foreign estrogen-like molecules in everything from car exhaust, carpets, soaps, lotions, food (commercially raised meat and dairy), pesticides, adhesives et al. Of course, we cannot eliminate all of these sources, but knowing where they are, can help us to reduce exposure, and adding progesterone where and as indicated, can balance your body so it functions more closely to its design specifications!! J
I thank the Designer – our great God and Saviour for helping me and healing me! Soli Deo Gloria!
I could write much more, but I leave you with three “pleas”...
Ø Please do not allow your doctor to keep you from the truth! Most of them never have time to read much more than the information provided by the pharmaceutical companies!!
Ø Please at least look at a couple of the sites I have mentioned.
Ø Please pass this information on to others
In His Service,
Lorraine
