Category: Women’s Health
THE TAMPON DEBATE: IS THEM A CONNECTION TO ENDOMETRIOSIS?
In my practice, numbers of women who use tampons exclusively (or use them in combination with pads far heavy flow) worry that tampons may be implicated in the onset and progressive growth of endometriosis. There are a number of reasons for their concern:
If tampons block menstrual flow and keep blood in the vagina, they ask, [...]
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS IN CASE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS: RELIEF, DENIAL, CONFUSION
When a doctor finally puts a name to all that pain and suffering you feel relieved. At last someone has recognised that you do have something wrong with you and it is not all in your head. No, you are not neurotic and your symptoms have a name. Endometriosis. You do not have cancer and [...]
HOW IS ENDOMETRIOSIS DIAGNOSED: KYLIE’S STORY
I started menstruating at the age of 13. For the first 12 months everything was fine, but I then started to develop acute pain in my right side. I went to my GP who referred me to a surgeon and I was then rushed to hospital to have my appendix removed. Strangely, my appendix was [...]
SOLUTIONS TO INFERTILITY: WHY DOES YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL RISE AND FALL?
After a meal, glucose produced by the breakdown of food (digestion) is absorbed through the wall of the intestine into the bloodstream. At this point, there is, quite naturally, a high level of glucose in the blood. Your body takes what it immediately needs for energy and then produces insulin from the pancreas in an [...]
