Follow-up

First, thank you soo much for the encouragement and support...I know I say it all the time, but I'm more than grateful for my bloggy friends...this girl couldn't make it without ya'll!!  I'm finally getting a chance to follow up about my "new approach".  I went in for my first visit to go over everything and anything, and then a week and a half later (yesterday), I went in for my follow-up. 

After an "interview" of everything "female"...my new doc discovered that I had an estrogen dominance issue.  I went over a list of all the symptoms/markers for the ED issue (I gotta abbreviate it, it's a long one, but when I type ED it makes me think of erectile dysfunction for some insane reason, ha!).  To say that I had about 85% of the symptoms listed is kind of an understatement.  Shocker warning ahead...one of the big reasons he believes that it's an ED issue is because of my early onset of my period.  This is cuuuhhhrazy, but I started when I was EIGHT years old!  I know right?!  Just a little background story on that.  Who the heck talks to their eight y/o about puberty?  So when that went down, I was scared outta my mind...thought I was dying for obvious reasons!  Looking back now, all the drama was quite comical.  Basically, I have had about 30-45 more cycles than the average woman my age.  He explained that just the early onset alone signals an estrogen issue, not just the mere fact that I've had so many cycles for a 33 y/o woman.  Here is where my frustration lies...I inquired about the early onset to my gyno and RE, and they both brushed it off as no biggie.  I'm not saying that this is the entire problem, but clearly it signals that something is "off"!

He overwhelmed me (in a good way) with so much information regarding ED, supplements to assist it and my diet.  He explained that estrogen gets backed up in the liver, so I am on 3 supplements for liver cleansing, drops for uterine health and magnesium topical gel for anxiety (plus, magnesium deficiency is a symptom of ED and can lead to some nasty feelings of anxiety/depression).  Anxiety has been an issue for me for the past 3 years.  I was on Yaz birth control when I first got married, and had some major issues once I stopped it midcycle after a year of taking it...ever since then I have had this constant anxious personality.  I think the Yaz just contributed to my already existing issues...plus, surely ya'll have heard that Yaz is terrible anyways, hence the commercials and them pulling it off the market!  All in all, he thinks my anxiety is clearly hormonal related.

My doc seems soo full of great information and really sounds like he knows what he's talking about.  It's very interesting their view on things, as compared to conventional dr's.  He explained that the stuff that we are "fed" on TV and in society are so backwards to what we truly should be doing.  I can't even go over all the stuff, there was so much.  As far as nutrition, he is sending me an email today with a guideline that I should try and follow.  The top 3 things that I should avoid are gluten products (very hard apparently), artificial sweeteners and polyunsaturated fats.  The polyfats thing is just one example of one of the things that is being pushed right now to consume, but yet is not good for us.  It's really looking at things in a whole different way.  I'm really excited about this!!  Plus, taking a break for a few months will help with the stress tremendously!