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Re: PMDD - Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

Posted by SLS on November 19, 2000, at 0:48:31

In reply to Re: PMDD - Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, posted by S Howard on November 18, 2000, at 22:37:50

Hi Gracie.


I was hoping that no one would misconstrue my post as being a discouragement of the usage of medication. Because there is such intense focus here on using drugs (natural or synthetic) as treatment, I sometimes worry that some of us develop tunnel-vision. I thought it was nice to be reminded to look around once in a while.

Not being a woman, I cannot appreciate the many intricacies of womanhood. I think if I were a woman suffering from a severe premenstrual psychobiological disruption, I would probably opt for treatment using hormones rather than antidepressants.

Without having looked into PMS or PMDD, I don't know if severe cases are always treatable with hormones. Are they?

There is a bunch of other stuff going on in the body and brain of a woman other than the secretion of pituitary and gonadal hormones. I know that the brain has its own timekeepers. In biology, there are so many examples of 28-day metabolic and behavioral cycles, that it is obvious that life on earth evolved under the influences of the lunar cycle. Life developed in the ocean, where the moon has its most obvious effects - the tide. If I am not mistaken, it is within the tidal waters that life evolved. Perhaps there are other cycles located deeper in the nervous system that are independent of the tides of hormones that contribute to PMDD. I don't know.

My questions are:
1. Does abolition of the menstrual cycle always work?
2. If not, why?
3. How often and how well do SSRIs help, and which ones in particular are the most effective?

> I have posted this before but I think it's worth considering: get rid of the period and you get rid of the PMS. This can be accomplished by Norplant or Depro-Provera injections. I have had success with both for many years now... I couldn't imagine going back to having periods and PMS, it's such needless pain.

> I've heard people say, "It's not right, it's not natural..."

This is sometimes such a silly argument. Who has come to decide that it is not precisely man's place in nature to use nature to better his own life, and of all else that surrounds him? After all, everything man makes, he makes from what already exists in nature - even those unstable elements that are not produced elsewhere in the universe. Leaf-cutter ants actually culture and harvest their own food. They are fungus farmers. The ants don't eat the leaves. The fungus eats the leaves. The ants eat the fungus. Even worse than that, these same ants make their own herbicide to keep other species of fungi out of their gardens. They encourage the growth a special bacteria on their "chins". These bacteria secrete an antibiotic. Yes, that's right. Leaf-cutter ants have been refining their own antibiotics long before we began to walk upright and accidentally ran into penicillin.

It's not right. Its not natural.


- Scott

 

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