Dysmenorrhea - Severe Pain During Menstruation

[ScarletBegonias]

There are inherent health hazards in using disposable menstrual products because they are simply bleached white and though individually wrapped in plastic, are not sterile

Traces of dioxin can be found on the products after they are bleached. Dioxin is a toxic impurity, often created as by-products in many industrial processes. Dioxin accumulation in your body can harm your metabolism.

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxins_and_dioxin-like_compounds

Human toxicity

There are surprisingly few scientifically well established effects of dioxins in human beings. The best proven is chloracne.[1] Even in poisonings with huge doses of TCDD, the only persistent effects after the initial malaise have been chloracne and amenorrhea.[13][14] In occupational setting many symptoms have been seen, but exposures have always been to a multitude of chemicals including chlorophenols, chlorophenoxy acid herbicides, and solvents. Therefore proof of dioxins as causative factors has been difficult.[15] The suspected effects in adults are liver damage, and alterations in heme metabolism, serum lipid levels, thyroid functions, as well as diabetes and immunological effects.[15]

In line with animal studies, developmental effects may be much more important than effects in adults. These include disturbances of tooth development,[16] and of sexual development.[17] An example of the variation in responses is clearly seen in a study following the Seveso disaster indicating that sperm count and motility was effected in different ways in exposed males, depending on whether they were exposed before, during or after puberty.[18]

I'll be looking for these products at the health food store the next time I'm in there! Thank you very much for posting this, Oxajil!

 

[ScarletBegonias]

Read "sex, lies and menopause" by T.S. Wiley. You probably need serious progesterone therapy.

Thank you again for mentioning this book and progesterone therapy to me, Laura! The first cream I tried seemed to make everything worse, but I have since found Kokoro Balance cream and it has been my saving grace! I apply 1/4 tsp twice a day every day in different places each time.

Sex, Lies and Menopause (Wiley, pg 47)

Without hormones, it is really impossible to sleep. Without sleep, prolactin keeps escalating. You'd never be awake off and on all night unless you were nursing. At the end of perimenopause, cortisol soars and estrogen and progesterone hit bottom...just as they do during labor and delivery. At this point in the template, your immune system revs up so high that it may attack your cartilage and mucus membranes, and that scenario creates joint pain (arthritis) and allergies, and an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's Thyroidisis can happen now, too. Once your immune system has attacked and halted thyroid function, with the insulin resistance from sleeplessness, you just keep getting fatter.

When I was about 24 I quit birth control pills and after that I remember being so anxious all the time. My periods became very painful and have been irregular for the most part since around then, I think. At about 24 I started taking anti-depressants again for depression and Xanax for anxiety. When I was about 27 I began getting panic attacks. I read books on these subjects, but never found the answer.

At 29 I developed very painful arthritis in my hands and feet that seemed to mimic RA, but the blood tests were always normal. At 30 I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, but the thyroid medication never could get rid of the mental cloudiness or the feelings of low energy I had been experiencing. At 31 I began experiencing disturbing symptoms of PMS and I created this thread as an act of desperation.

I'm 32 now and for the first time in years my mind is no longer overly cloudy or racing without medication. My body feels alive and my energy seems more stable. My emotions are so much more balanced, not so overwhelming as they always seemed to be. My periods seem more normal. They aren't as intense or nearly as painful as they have been. I am able to get restful sleep and no longer get night sweats.

I have had a Xanax prescription for eight years and have consistently saved those pills for a "rainy" day since the very beginning. Well, today I was able to throw them and the rest of my anti-depressant medication out, because what I needed was the right kind of progesterone cream. And after all these years I have finally found it, but I would not have gotten to this point without the help of the members on this forum. Thank you, everyone! I truly believe that if this forum did not exist I might have died, because I was suffering so much for so long that living was becoming unbearable.