A Vitamin Cure for PCOS? A Vitamin Cure For Gestational Diabetes?

Could their perhaps be a way to avoid the irregular periods, the weight gain, the unwanted hair growth, or the acne of PCOS that is actually nutritionally based? Oral contraceptives, anti-androgen medications and hypoglycemic agents are mostly what is given. But careful study shows that some women with polycystic ovarian syndrome could benefit by nutritional management as well. Inositol is a vitamin in the B group that has never been considered an essential vitamin as our bodies do make this from sugar (glucose). It is also in many of the foods we eat fairly regularly such as oranges and cantaloupes. But physicians and nutritionists have begun to look at this compound as a treatment for polycystic ovaries and diabetes and some birth defect prevention such as neural tube defects. A group of Italian physicians recently looked at whether this could reduce the risk of getting gestational diabetes if you supplemented the moms with 4 grams of myo-inositol daily, and it may have worked to reduce the risk of getting gestational diabetes by half. Women who are gestational diabetics are not encouraged to go against medical advice. Proper treatment of the gestational diabetes will reduce miscarriages, birth defects and stillbirth. Other ways to prevent diabetes in pregnancy: go into pregnancy with normal weight, eat well, gain normal amounts of weight during the pregnancy, and exercise according to pregnancy guidelines. For non-pregnant women, nutritional evaluation (for instance what is your red-blood cell folate level) can be helpful in guiding therapy.
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Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...

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