WOMEN problems and BOOKS

The Birth Control pills never helped me because I didn't take them on time. I've since read that they and any other form of birth control can be dangerous. I'd rather not use them as one day I do want to have a child. I like Natural.

well after 5 kids thuought I had better stop. Daughter was on them till she decided she wanted a baby now her baby is 7 years old!

Yeah I mean there are definitely good reasons to be on them and some can stop using them and have a baby faster, but I've heard sometimes it takes years to have a baby after you stop birth control.

I have realized over the years that my periods are directly porportionate with my stress levels. Maybe more so then other women. I don't have the money for a doctor, and I won't take birth control. I do know that I need to be more proactive in my "lady" health however. I have had a papsmear done before and I believe it was normal. I've been told all the doctors can do is give me birth control. I won't do that so it's the healthy / natural way for me.

I do drink Raspberry tea and it helps me with the heavy flow. I've not been having any flow here lately though.

Are you not having regular flow? That's not good.

Go to your local grocers or food market and pick up something called Raspberry Tea, it will help your menstrual cycle regulate a bit as it "flexes" your uterus. I would also reccomend checking your iron levels and taking Iron regularly. I know the pain of heavy heavy periods, and these things have helped me in the past.

Thanks for the recommendation of raspberry tea. I will find that next time I go to the grocery. I used to take iron supplements before when I was anemic, I don't know what it does to heavy periods.

Iron pills for periods? Well I don't think it does anything negative. It helps replenish the nutrients in your blood from when you lose it due to the menses though.

It runs in my family. I don't have insurance to get it checked out and I'd rather go natural before anything else. I ordered some fertilitea which I talked about on here before, and it has helped. This month will be the first period since I stopped drinking the tea, and so far so good. It feels much more normal. I may order another bag or order some vitamins to help with it as well.

It's more then just diet and rest. I've got it under control more so, but I've relied on herbs and good sense as well. Hope your wife can find a way to cope, there are teas etc out there she can drink to help her out a lot.

I used fertilitea and it helped a great deal. I may order another bag. I try to do things the healthy and natural way. Back even a century or two ago that's how things were done, more natural.. So that is what I try to do.

Period problems run in my family. My aunt had them so bad when she was a kid. She had told me of times that made me feel so bad. I don't have them as bad as I used to. I drink Raspberry tea and it seems to help. I've tried Vitex Root. I would much rather eat healthier and Raisins are one of my favorite treats. Lately I've not been bleeding at all. The past two weeks I've probably bled once or twice, I had one where I "gushed" and that was it. I've not been drinking the tea either...

Definitely birth control! I used to take it, but no more! I refuse to take it! It can do more harm then good Studies have shown. I'd rather deal with the periods, that seem to be getting better, then to have to deal with medicine. Stress is a big factor for me, I need to start taking B-Complex

When I first started my period years ago I was a heavy caffeine drinker. My periods would literally be so bad that I'd be on the bathroom floor curled in a ball and crying. I hated it. Since then I've had times where I haven't had a period, times where that is all I did, and times where I bled so much it literally "cleaned me out". That is to say, I looked it up once and found out the sweet smell emiting from my lady regions was because I had literally been CLEANED because of all the blood. Lately my periods have been more odd. Like right now I am not bleeding. I don't belive in birth control, I'd rather do it the natural way. I don't have the money to go the doctor either. The Raspberry Tea works for me and if I can just drink it twice a day and do it regularly I know that my periods will continue to be regular. I also need to change my diet.

I will have to try the Dandelion Capsules and Milk Thistle then, but for me the Raspberry Tea seems to be helping. You may want to look into it and see if it will help regulate your cycle, but I know it's mostly used for heavy periods. Eating Healthier is definitely a good choice but it's not an easy one. I'm trying to eat healthier myself.