With all the doctor's appointments out of the way, and the 6 month scans successfully completed, we now are ready to look at what a Naturopath can do for Michellie. Her stomach issues are the same and there is no resolution to these. They didn't find anything on her scans and the Gastrointestinal specialist did not find any conclusive evidence about wheat or dairy. The best advice was just avoid the things that bother her. The gynecologist did not see any difficulties with Michellie's body for all the pain that she experiences with PMS and she recommends trying a stronger pain killer and hormone therapy if we desire. This wasn't really the approach we wanted to take.
The first idea that the Naturopath had was that Michellie's digestive tract needs a good boost of strong probiotics. These ones will help to work with the antibiotics Michellie received during treatment. This will help to get the good bacteria strong in her body. Second, she recommended a product to coat Michellie's stomach that contains licorice root. It is very strong and will get the stomach protected so that healing and inflammation can be reduced. She determined through questioning about stool details that Michellie was not digesting her food and not processing the nutrients she needed. These are all things we were kind of aware of, but with time and everything that Michellie had gone through we thought we had exhausted these possibilities.
To reduce cramping during PMS and in Michellie's legs and hips, she recommended Calm with Magnesium to relax the muscles - perhaps this will help with getting Michellie to sleep at a decent time?! The powder form is a good one that Michellie will be able to easily absorb. The Calcium Magnesium chewable tablet that we had been using was causing nausea and this was because it was too hard for her to absorb. Who would have thought?!
Michellie will be charting her temperatures each morning. The Naturopath believes that Michellie suffers from the same thing as many teenagers do - high estrogen levels and little or no progesterone. In Michellie's case, there is no change in hormones at all, and so she is checking her blood tests to determine if she is in need of progesterone. As well, she will look at her iron levels.
I know that the details of this blog could be considered invasive for Michellie and we have always tried to honor her privacy, but, this information may be helpful to others and we feel it should be shared. The naturopath sees many teenagers and women with hormone challenges that have gone undetected. The woman's monthly cycle should be symptom free. There should be no imbalance in hormones. Our society and the toxins in it have led us down a completely different road. For many women they are told to deal with the pain - it is a part of life. For Michellie, this reality is at least 2 days off of school each month and last month the pain had her completely curled up and screaming. That is not right.
We look forward to the start of this path, and the possibilities that have been presented to us. As well, we also found out that Nova Scotia has low iodine in the soil. This can lead to some PMS-like symptoms as well as fatigue if the diet does not have sufficient iodine in it. That would have been very helpful to know when we moved here. Michelle is suffering from the symptoms associated with this, and she looks forward to a renewed energy with some tweaking on this.
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