Am I going the Right way??

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Chinese Traditional Medicine , " emailme_marilyn "

<emailme_marilyn wrote:

>

> to all who's been helping me all along...as you know, based on my

> western diagnosis, I have insulin resistance which causes my PCOS and

> anovulation (not because of cysts) and hyperactive immune which causes

> my miscarriages.

> i've been to tcm doctor and doing acupuncture and herbs while doing my

> immune treatment for almost 5months and it seems my body is not

> getting better. or maybe the herbs she's giving me is not that right.

> for example, instead of regulating my cycle, it totally messed up my

> cycle! I once had a 50days cycle, 45days cycle and then the last time,

> i keep spotting every 2 weeks (always on 5th day of herbs)!

>

> marilyn

>

 

Maybe the herbs are not right, as you say. If they have a

pro-estrogenic effect, your condition will either worsen or at best

not improve.

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Honestly I think this is a difference between western medicine and

Chinese medicine. Generally speaking with female type problems,

western medicine regulates. The view Chinese medicine takes, is

heal the problem and balance the energies, and then the body will

regulate itself, and the problem will be fixed. Basically you can

view the body 2 ways. One is that it needs help figuring out what

to do, because what it is doing is not correct, and therefore needs

to be regulated (western medicine), or the other case is that your

body is trying to tell you the best way it knows how that something

is wrong, and there is a problem that needs to be fixed, and once

you can learn the way the body talks, and repair this damage, then

the body will gladly function properly.

 

Take two examples. If a country is in war and the draft comes up,

there is no time to sissy around and try to teach people how to

fight in the military on their own time. There is instead an

intense regulation and demand of drill sergeants ect. This is this

way because of crisis, a live or die situation, so there is no time

to sit around and debate what is going to happen, and sit around

convincing people that they need to train to fight. It just needs

to happen. On the other hand if you took every day life and

regulated it to that degree the public would become very

dissatisfied and loose moral, and become very unhappy, some might

even rise to rebellion. They would start to just trudge through

there job, avoiding getting in trouble, but not doing anything

extra. Creativity would no longer flow, happiness would no longer

flow, and the overall existence would look pretty bleak. If you are

in a live or die survival situation, I would probably use western

medicine because that is how they have developed their medicine. If

you are wanting a better quality of life I would stick with the

Chinese medicine, or sometimes you can find a balance between the

two.

 

Each medicine has their own place and their own benefit, so it is

just up to you what you want to do. One good suggestion might be if

you got on birth control to regulate your cycle, and then with the

Chinese medicine you repair the damage, then you have your fix in

the mean time (BC pills), and also your long term fix (acupuncture

or herbal Chinese medicine). The only downside to this is that you

couldn't bear a child in the mean time. Overall I personally do not

find it all too concerning that your cycle has gotten worse,

especially where she is more treating your over-active immune system

primarily. I do think you have a good concern, and a good

question. Ultimately it is up to you to decide. If you trust her

and you think that she is doing good for you I would stick with it.

If you trust her and your body is telling you that what she is doing

is not quite good enough, then I would express my concern to her (ie

that you would like your cycle treated more primarily if indeed that

is what you want). If you don't really trust her, then I would

probably look for a different Dr. If you like the way Chinese

medicine works, I would look for a TCM Dr, and if you feel more

comfortable with western medicine, then look for an OBGYN, just

whatever you feel is right.

 

Overall though with the way TCM works, it is not necessarily of too

much concern that your cycle has gotten worse. Actually depending

on the specific circumstances, it could actually be expected and

desired as it could signify that something was being done. Let me

elaborate. Imagine your body as a filing cabinet. Imagine that you

file every piece of paper that comes into your hands into this

filing cabinet, and maybe you do it hastily or otherwise without

organization. It would be very difficult to find much of anything

in there, because you have more papers filed than what you need, and

they also don't really have much order to them. Now imagine that

you wanted to make it so the filing cabinet worked, and that you

could easily find something in this filing cabinet. You would have

to decide what is important and worth keeping, and then get rid of

the rest. Your trash can next to the filing cabinet would get very

full; you might even have to get another garbage can in the mean

time to get rid of all the extra. Now, let's relate this to the

body. As I mentioned in my other post, if you have PCOS you most

likely have blood stagnation/coagulation in your uterus. This means

you have a large overabundance of energy that is slowing the energy

down, and at the same time gathering more energy. This is a vicious

downward cycle that perpetuates upon itself. Now if you have this

big energy stagnation in your uterus it needs to be drained

somehow. Now I suppose that your body could eliminate the energy

stagnation through some other channel, but where it can drain right

out of the channel it is in, that would make the most sense. Just

like if you were clearing the clutter out of the filing cabinet, you

would not determine that it is junk, then go through the effort of

filing it to put it in another filing cabinet to load it into your

truck to take it to the dump only to empty out the filing cabinet

drawer by drawer so you could keep the filing cabinet. Instead you

would just put it in your garbage can and wheel it out to the curb

for garbage pickup. So with that being said your cycles being

irregular could just mean that your body is doing a very good thing

for itself in clearing out the energy stagnation.

 

I hope all of that made sense, if not just ask. Also this is just

one possibility, it's not necessarily the way it is, but it's got a

pretty good chance. I hope this helps, and is more or less what you

were looking for when you asked.

 

Good luck with your journey!