Posted by zinya on January 7, 2004, at 11:51:14
In reply to Re: Womanly Question, posted by LenoreW on January 7, 2004, at 11:21:17
I'm with Lenore here. I've mentioned previously on the board here my own view - sorry i don't know where/how to link to it - but i detailed my own carpal tunnel recurrence on Effexor and the only previous time i had carpal tunnel was 3 yrs ago when my HRT had been totally upended (by insurance companies deciding my form was no longer a "formulary" -- blech! - and obliging me to try a different brand they saw as equivalent -- it WASN"T ...
And in the throes of that experience, i discovered at least some studies that already had linked carpal tunnel to estrogen, studies which had been triggered by seeing the high incidence of carpal T during menopause...
Such things as sweating -- which some of us experienced in buckets on Effexor -- is definitely regulated at least in part by hormones.
I have to say: For at least a decade, i've had little patience with doctors who say "Ohhhh hormones [or whatever] have no connection to ... [fill in the blank]" .... Geez. Wake up to holistic understandings of body processes, mds, not to mention adding in the body-mind connection too.
The adrenal glands are pivotal, manufacturing site for hormones, for obviously adrenalin, and there's no way an impact on production of one adrenal output is not going to affect its production of others... Just narrow-minded poppycock...
It's been a while since i recommended this book here, so perhaps it's timely to do so again. To me, it's a veritable Bible -- or Atlas? -- or encyclo (pick your religious or secular metaphor :) -- of vital such info from a very enlightened woman doctor (from Maine, as i recall) -- This is, imho, a "must-buy" for all women. How's THAT for an endorsement? :)
Christiane Northrup's "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom""
(once more with feeling - i'm trying Dr. Bob's system here to link to amazon but it's saying Amazon doesn't have it. Yet i can see it right on amazon's site - Something's wrong with the amazon link here but anyway it's available, $13 new, $8 used... :))
She's an advocate of naturalistic "solutions" whenever possible, she's a guru on the types and key distinctions of types of estrogen and HRT in general, as well as the pivotal role of the adrenal gland -- which nobody ever learns enough about, imo -- hence my thinking of her again in this context...
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