There are a lot of females out there who may be able to relate to the subject of period pains all too easily. For those women for whom the monthly cycle passes without event, hey you are so lucky, but for those for which with each month arrives the ordeal of pain and discomfort, in differing degrees, it is the proverbial nightmare. Sometimes the problem responds to painkillers and other times you could happily swallow the entire bottle (which I am not in any way advocating) but still feel like it will not help.
As women get older doctors prescribe different forms of hormone treatment as a means of helping the painful and heavy cycles, although since the advent of the pill it appears to be an option for those who are much younger as well. A doctor once explained to me how it was necessary that women should succumb to these hormone aids, especially since we are living longer and having fewer babies, thus more periods. According to this expert, women before tended to marry younger, churn out children on average, once a year for anything up to 15 years, and died younger!!!! As a result in the span of one female lifetime fewer periods were experienced, and less likelihood then of anemia and other similar menstrual related issues.
My take on it is somewhat different. Yes we live longer, and yes on average we bear fewer children and noticeably girls are getting younger and younger when they start menstruating….but like with all evolutionary processes isn’t that what happens as we adapt to our ever changing world? Let’s face it the hormone revolution has only really been around since the late 50’s and early 60’s, so has time had enough of a chance to test their long term effects? HRT is not so hot with the side effects it seems to pose for some women who take it, to keep at bay the hot flushes and fatigue of menopause and in terms of how long that’s been available it’s a bit of a quandary. I have written for those who are interested a more technical article which you can access by either going to my website www.touchofhealing.co.uk or clicking into this link: http://www.touchofhealing.co.uk/Dealing-with-monthly-pain-article.php As a therapist I believe the body is fully equipped to deal with and adapt to the demands of extra years, fewer pregnancies and younger start ages for menstruation. If we eat right, stay active and avoid the idea that rest will help our situation (hard to integrate I know, but very true) we might lessen the effects or even reduce the degree of pain. Often releasing stuck connective tissue, around the womb, or directly creating softening of supporting musculature through techniques like Myofascial Release therapy, and trigger point therapy, will produce a noticeable decrease to painful periods, but use of visceral manipulation and CranioSacral therapy can also help in reducing the discomfort of back pain, and upper leg pain which occasionally accompanies monthly cycles as well as the period pain itself. In the articles section of my website I have written a more in depth and factually based piece on the physiological problems surrounding period pains. For those of you who suffer with it or are simply interested to know a little more, then I suggest you check it out.
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