I suffer from a genetic kidney abnormality called cystinuria and can produce ten or twenty kidney stones in a month’s time. About a month before I was due to leave Japan I saw my urologist for what I thought was another stone. Same pain, same place. Nothing new. After passing so many stones and having ...
Ovaries are a pair of organs that play a part in the female reproductive system. Ovaries are located in the pelvic area of a woman, on each side of the uterus. Each ovary is about the size of an almond. The job of the ovaries is to produce eggs and the female hormones, estrogen and ...
Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled little sacs that form on the ovaries. Sometimes as tiny as a milimeter, sometimes as large as a golfball (or bigger), these common cysts typically flush out of the ovary on the next menstrual cycle. In fact, one of the most common cures for recurring ovarian cysts is to be placed ...
During the course of their reproductive year, many women will have an experience with an ovarian cyst. There are several different types of ovarian cysts and most of them do not affect a woman’s fertility, but there are some types of cysts that may have a detrimental effect on fertility. To begin, there are five ...
Many women have suffered the pain and agony of having been told that a tubal ligation is the best option for pregnancy prevention only to find out that the side effects are terrible, painful, and far worse than that of any birth control on the market. Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome or PTLS is a condition ...
Having PCOS is a stressful thing. There are so many symptoms that go along with that diagnosis and it can be a very scary thing to have to deal with on a daily basis. Some symptoms include, hirsutism (excessive hair growth on the face and neck, among other places), acne, weight gain, trouble losing weight, ...
Ovarian cysts are often asymptomatic. The cyst may be follicular, corpus luteum, or dermoid. Endometriosis or malignancy may be involved. They may become polycystic, where follicular cysts develop with pituitary overproduction of luteinizing hormone (which initiates ovulation). Related pain may be caused by a number of factors related to the cysts: — Aching and heaviness ...
Oh the joys of being a woman! The clothes, the shoes, the hair, the time all three take to get together in the morning, the one a month cycle that turns our worlds over, and all the complications that go with it…Yes, sometimes being a woman can seem glorious when we’re buying a sexy strapy ...
As an acupuncturist specializing in women’s health and fertility, I see women regularly who are concerned about ovarian cysts. An ovarian cyst is a small fluid-filled sac that develops on one or both of your ovaries. These growths are generally harmless and cause few problems for most women. Occasionally, however, ovarian cysts may cause pain, ...
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