Re: gulating menstrual cycle and lessening pain without birth control pills
From: Alicia M. Lapidus M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:29:42 -0500 (CDT)
Irregular periods are due to hormonal disbalance,have you been studied?
some times it is difficult to solve it.
At Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Latoya wrote:
>
>At the age of seventeen I went to a couple of doctors and gynecologists
>for pain in my side. Finally I was diagnosed with just having ovulation
>pains. I also have bad menstrual cramps and irregualar periods. I was
>put on birth controls. I got off of them for a few months for religious
>reasons and fears that it was causing side effects. I read on the
>warnings that Trivora can cause depression to reoccur and I was afraid
>it was adding to my emotional problems. I was told there was no other
>way to regulate my period. And I would just have to take midols for
>pain. The only midols that helped my pain had ibuprofen in it. After
>getting an ulcer I was forced to stop taking those. The pain was
>unbearable so I got back on the pill. Now I'm 20 and I wanted to know
>if there were any other medications besides birth control that could
>regulate my period and help with ovulation pain and cramps. I wanted
>modern medicine I could count on not herbs. Maybe it doesn't seem like
>a big deal to take birth control pills. But I'm not sexually active and
>as a young Christian woman I don't like the assumptions that I get from
>pharmacists and others. I like to be able to portray my true lifestyle
>and the importance of following Christ in all that I do.
--
Alicia M. Lapidus M.D.
Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital Fernández
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Barcelo University
Vicepresident of Argentine Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy
Director Latina Obgyn.net- http\latina.obgyn.net\espanol
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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