Posted by Catherine Sheel on May 13, 2006, at 15:37:47
In reply to Re: wellbturin and pitting edema, posted by Lithia on May 13, 2006, at 15:00:33
RE: it being a mysterious condition...it depends where you find information on it. I have found sites with TONS of information on it...and then i've found sites with minimal information on it. I've found sites where they talk a lot about herbal supplements to regulate your hormones (chaste tree berry, SAM-e, natural progesterone creams, DIM/I3C, Evening Primrose Oil), the role that melatonin, stress, and food can play in all of it. And then I've found other sites where they sound totally mystified and say all you can do is decrease your salt intake and lie down several hours a day. It appears that a Dr. John R. Lee, MD has done a lot of good research on this. And I found most my information on diagnose-me.com. A very easy test to do would be to test your hormone levels at the PROPER times within your cycle..so you'd want to make sure you were going to a knowledgeable doctor before you got your progesterone/estrogen checked...or at least did some research on your own first.
Hate to sound like a "pinko commie" but I sort of think the traditional medical community is male-dominated (even if there are tons of women doctors) as well as pharmaceutically driven.
This site diagnose-me.com is interesting, and you might want to check it out.
-c
poster:Catherine Sheel
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