#menstural health

[cvt2dvm]

There's also dietary changes, supplements & vitamins, and psychotherapy options for treating PMDD. I'd recommend going to a female D.O. + OBGYN who generally will present you with a more well-rounded and wholistic (not holistic) treatment plan. My original PMDD team consisted of a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a dietician, an endocrinologist, and a D.O. gynecologist.

We figured out hormonal birth controls aren't an option for me due to both lifestyle factors and the exacerbation of my PMDD symptoms. We also restricted/eliminated soy from my diet as my intolerance of it went beyond bloating, and it also influenced my mood and psyche due to hormone levels being thrown off when I'd eat soy products as part of my inflammatory response to it. We added in psychotherapy with a focus on DBT and regulation skills to help me better adapt to psychological stressors. For about 3 years, while I was gaining those skills, I was on antidepressants.

My current treatment plan addresses both my seasonal affective disorder, birth control needs, and my PMDD through vitamin D & magnesium supplementation, a paragard IUD (non-hormonal copper IUD), dietary changes to a more whole foods high protien diet, and exercise. I haven't had a true PMDD episode in almost 4 years with this plan. Treating the underlying psychological disorder, getting my hormones balanced, and controlling the inflammatory response has done incredible things for me.

Talking to your primary care doctor or gynecologist about PMDD is an important step, and if you feel your needs are being ignored or aren't being addressed by your medical team, you can and should change providers. Your doctors also can't help you if you don't ask them to help and advocate for yourself. I've gone through a lot of good doctors and bad doctors and now have a fully female medical team whom I trust and who trust me.

Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."

It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.

[thesoundeffectpodcast]

[parsnop]

The rage has gotten to me.

Someone tell me WHY. WHY THE FUCK. IS THERE LEAD. IN TAMPONS. THAT GO INTO THE MOST ABSORBANT PART OF THE BODY.

This is a psa to stop using tampax tampons, tampons that claim to be organic but aren't 100% cotton, and tampons in general.

Another reminder that companies do not care about menstrual health. At all.

The safest route is to use only 100% cotton tampons. The ones with no plastic at all. Or to stop using tampons and start using menstrual cups, because they're the only ones made with medical grade material, created in medically safe factories.

And obviously, this is all too little too late. Because tampons have never been cheap. And 100% cotton tampons are the most expensive.

What are we supposed to do to keep people with menstural cycles healthy?

Genuine question because I don't fhckinf know.

[sugas6thtooth]

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[melisssg99]

Girl wake up!🩷

It's steak dinner,sweet potato,

nettle leaf tea,raspberry leaf tea, flax seed, pumpkin seed,

hot water bottle day!🩷

[guavagyal]

Rockstar has the chance to take GTA VI to the next level by having Lucia be on her menstrual cycle at times & you can use a pad, tampon, or cup.

[hobbinch]

Ive been on this site 13 damn years and the WHOLE TIME people have been suggesting discussing body parts instead of saying things like "womens health" when talking about reproductive health/science. And yet! I still regularly see people thinking theyre being more inclusive by saying shit like "dfab health" on a post that's entirely about period blood.

[sspookyspoonss]

I FINALLY GOT MY PERIOD BACK AFTER OVER TWO YEARS, I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE IN THIS MUCH PAINNNNN

[v-tired-queer]

Not sure if I've been tired, moody, and my stomach has been hurting on and off because of PMS or because I'm overall stressed 🤔🤔

[health-and-beauty01]

How to stop prolonged periods or heavy periods?

[reina-royale1995]

And even if you're not a child, it's still wrong for people to assume you're taking it for contraceptive reasons.

I'm sex-repulsed, as is my sister.

We both take the pill because the anemia combined with the pain has caused us to pass out on multiple occasions. Each.

Even years after our periods should have gotten milder they were still causing severe pain and anemia. So, we started taking birth control.

It's been super helpful in that aspect. Even when we have periods now, they've been much milder.

We're not taking it to have sex without getting pregnant, and would be very upset if people assumed that about us.

There's also people with hormonal imbalances, conditions like PCOS, where the treatment would be birth control pills, but it has nothing to do with preventing pregnancy.

So, talking about the fact that the pill can be prescribed for non-contraceptive reasons is very good.

It's not sex-negative, it's having honest discussions about healthcare.

(I totally agree with OP, I just wanted to add a personal experience that felt relevant.)

"People shouldn't post about how the contraceptive pill can be prescribed for non-contraceptive reasons because it's sex negative" feels like a take that can only come from people who don't realise just how young some people end up being prescribed the pill

Like, fine, you, person in your twenties, might be comfortable being like "this is the pill I take to fuck without getting pregnant", but I don't think it's sex negative for a thirteen-year-old who has been prescribed it for debilitating period pain to not want to have to hide their medication from their classmates on an overnight school trip because their classmates think that the only reason anyone would take it is that they're sexually active

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పీరియడ్స్ అనేది ప్రతి యువతి జీవితంలో ఒక సహజమైన భాగం. అయితే, ఈ సమయంలో కొన్ని పనులను చేయడం వల్ల అనారోగ్య సమస్యలు తలెత్తే అవకాశం ఉంది. ఈ వీడియోలో, పీరియడ్స్ లో చేయకూడని 5 విషయాలను గురించి తెలుసుకుందాం.