Let’s be blunt: period pain sucks. Many women have their work and personal lives disrupted every month by painful abdominal cramps due to endometriosis and/or fibroids. The degree of discomfort some women experience can lead them to regularly miss work and forego other important activities. It turns out that acupuncture can help…
Irregular, painful, short, long, heavy: if any of these words are ones you would use to describe your menstrual cycle, then a Chinese Medicine practitioner may be able to help. Most women think that a period is something that has to be ‘suffered’ through but, contrary to popular belief, a healthy menstrual…
Often when pain occurs during menstruation, the last thing we think of is inflammation; however, inflammation plays a stronger role in menstrual pain than you may think. In this week’s article Dr. Bristow explains what happens to the levels of CRP, a marker of inflammation, during menstruation, and how this marker can…
