Posted by Roo on September 18, 2002, at 18:43:10
In reply to Re: Alternatives » Roo, posted by BarbaraCat on September 16, 2002, at 15:05:09
> Roo,
> Good luck to you - you've got my total support
on this. I think it's helping alot.So you're starting to feel a lot better? How long
did it take?If nothing
else, I'll be a very fit and healthy mentally
ill person. I'll ask my naturopath whom I'll be
seeing on Friday his ideas on your finding a
good doc.Thank you...I'd appreciate that...or has the appt. already
passed? If so, how did it go?
I'm reading a fascinating book about
hormones and their role in physical and mental
health (can't really separate them) that might
be of interest to you. It's called 'Screaming
to be Heard: Hormone connections women suspect
and doctors still ignore" by Elizabeth Vliet,
MD (newest edition). It's not so much
'alternative medicine' as a very thorough and
enlightening endocrine study. I suspect you're
a women? This will be extremely relevant.
I've wondered about hormonal stuff. I had a complete
endocrinology screening though, not too long ago, and
everything checked out normal. Yes, I'm a 34 year old
female. The book sounds interesting. Sometimes it
certainly FEELS hormonal...I'll get PMS like symptoms
(irritability, big time, almost like rage) only it won't
be PMS.
I'm actually feeling pretty discouraged at the moment...I
don't think the acupuncture is helping substantially...I'll
feel really good the day of my appt., but it doesn't last.
My next step is homeopathy...but I'm feeling despairing...I
don't know how much longer I can go feeling like shit...and this
stuff is SO expensive it's breaking me. I'm not sure what to
do. I loathe the thought of going back on conventional meds, but
if I have to, I will. I'm not going to live my life in misery.
poster:Roo
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