Suggested Supplements • Vitamin В6, 50-300 mg., daily (work up rom 50 mg. gradually) • Magnesium, 500 mg. and calcium 250 mg., daily (Yes, with PMS the ratio should be twice as much magnesium as calcium because a magnesium deficiency causes many of the PMS symptoms.) •   Vitamin E (dry form) 200-100 IU, daily [...]

Infertility can be caused by any number of reasons and occurs in both sexes in roughly equal proportions. Becoming aware of fertility potentiators and pitfalls has helped innumerable couples achieve conception without having to resort to extreme or expensive medical procedures. • Drugs that lower sperm counts, such as: Sulfasalazine – an anti-infective medication usually [...]

Fluid is sometimes used in the pelvis before a hysteroscopy to separate the abdominal organs. Could you explain why fluid is used instead of gas and the reasons why one or the other may be used? Do they have any adverse effects? The procedure of hysteroscopy can be used for diagnosis or treatment, but in [...]

Caffeine Caffeine is a stimulant and could therefore be classed as a ‘drug’. It has an adverse effect on fertility but it can also cause problems once a woman is pregnant. In a study of 2967 pregnant women, carried out by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine, the [...]

Many women feel isolated and confused when they have been diagnosed as suffering from endometriosis. Who do you turn to when your family and friends do not understand? They may find it difficult to understand your feelings and are not always able to provide the support and help you need. A support group such as [...]

Here are some additional practical tips for hair loss: ? Buy a small metal screening device (available at a hardware store) that you put over your shower drain to prevent the large quantities of hair from blocking your drain. ? Keep an empty plastic bowl in the shower to collect the hair as it comes [...]

Women who use avoidance as their coping mechanism have trouble with radiation because of its dailiness. Instead of coming to the hospital for a surgical procedure or chemotherapy treatment every few weeks, they will need to come every day. Thus there are daily reminders that this is really happening, that breast cancer has been diagnosed, [...]

In any case, the experience of living with a parent who has cancer produces an unusually early awareness of mortality in the children. Such an increased level of sensitivity and anxiety often influences acutely the choices young adult children make about their work, careers, and relationships—choices that may set them apart from their peers. Adult [...]

Some husbands have told us that their children assume that the death of their mother is a real possibility. Let them talk about their fears and their feelings with both of you if that feels right to you both. It may be that your wife cannot emotionally handle too much of this conversation at this [...]

For those who are comforted by the strength of their own beliefs, their already established habits of personal prayer will provide crucial support. What had previously furnished a familiar, stabilizing ritual will now, in time of personal crisis, provide a soothing refuge and a pathway toward healing. You will come to realize, and value, the [...]