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What is a Cyst on an Ovary?

Comments: 0January 3rd, 2011 by admin



An ovarian cyst is nothing but an accumulation of liquid in a thin layer wall that is in the ovary. It can be of varied sizes ranging from a resin to an apple. It has an effect on women ranging in all age groups. However, most commonly it is in women during the time they attain maturity.

A cyst on ovary can sometimes not be complex and have nothing that draws attention. It can be of many types’ namely functional cyst, Graafian follicle cyst, corpus leteum cyst, hemorrhagic cyst, dermoid cyst, endometrioid cyst, and pathological cyst.

When the Cyst on ovary reaches a stage when a person should give it medical attention, the person should feel symptoms like sharp discomforting lower abdominal pain. The pain may stay for long durations of time or be fluctuating in nature. The person may experience immense pain after their menstrual period. Periods in irregular times, improper bleeding, unease in urination, nausea and vomiting are also some of the commonly found symptoms. Most striking symptom is unusual and excessive hair growth on the person’s body and facial hair.

Nowadays, the most commonly used method for detection of Cyst on ovary is the ultrasound diagnosis or the CT scan. The medication to follow as per the recommendations always depends on the size of the cyst. Initially, pain relievers are there for the person to ease the pain. After that, a hot water bath just applied to the lower abdomen. Regular dosages of externally injected hormonal medication often hamper the regular menstrual cycle.

Generally, situations are under control within a period of two to three weeks. However, failing which there is a danger of ovarian cancer that may require higher degree of medical expertise like biopsy to deal with. I wish luck to all the women & suggest them to go for natural treatments available for cyst on ovary.

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Timing Ovulation

Comments: 0December 28th, 2010 by admin



Whether you are trying to conceive or you are interested in natural family planning, you may be interested in timing your ovulation. This can help you to time intercourse around the time that you ovulate, or avoid it to lower your chances of getting pregnant.

Your ovaries produce at least one egg every menstrual cycle. The follicles in the ovaries will mature and release an egg. This is referred to as ovulation. Follicles form on the outside of your ovaries. They are essentially like tiny holes that grow and fill with fluid as the cycle progresses. The egg is housed inside of the follicle and protected by the fluid.

Over time, as the follicle matures and increases in size, it will get ready to burst open. When the follicle bursts, it sends the egg surrounded by fluid into the fallopian tube. The fluid protects the egg on its journey and also helps it to travel down the tube. If the mature egg encounters sperm, then this is when fertilization will take place. If the egg is fertilized, then it should implant when it reaches the uterus and pregnancy occurs.

Your menstrual cycle should be about twenty eight days long. Of course, some women may have longer or shorter cycles, so you will need to determine exactly when you ovulate to achieve the best results. Most women ovulate around day fourteen of their menstrual cycle.

To calculate when day fourteen is, you need to count from the first day that menstrual bleeding starts. This would be day number one. If your menstrual cycle is longer or shorter than twenty eight days, then you may want to count back instead of forward. Some women can have more than fourteen days between the first day of their menstrual period and ovulation. Some, of course, can have way less. Fortunately, you can count back from the first day of your period because almost every woman ovulates fourteen days before the first day of her period.

Irregular periods can make it nearly impossible to anticipate an ovulation. Basal body temperature and ovulation prediction kits can help you if you are having trouble pinpointing when you ovulate. Some women may rarely or never ovulate. If you are trying to get pregnant, then speak with your OB/GYN about irregular or missed ovulations. There are hormonal therapies that can help you get back on track and attain your goal.

If you are trying to avoid pregnancy, remember that sperm can live for days inside of the uterus and vagina. Diet, medications and lifestyle can change the date of your ovulation. You may not successfully avoid pregnancy by counting days alone.

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Endometriosis Part X – Effects of Endometriosis on a Woman’s Emotional State

Comments: 0October 4th, 2010 by admin



As we mentioned in previous articles, during the last stage of the menstrual cycle, normally a layer of endometriosis lining in the inside of uterus is expelled, known as menstruation blood. Instead some of the endometriosis tissues grow somewhere in the body causing endometriosis. They also react to hormonal signals of the monthly menstrual cycle, building up tissue, breaking it, and eliminating it through menstrual period. In this article, we will discuss how endometrosis affects a woman’s emotional state.

1. Depression
Depression is a illness that not only affects woman with endometriosis but also their family, work or school life, sleeping and eating habits, and general health. It is caused by lower levels of good estrogen and high levels of progesterone, and the symptom get worse before and during menstruation. Being misunderstood by co-workers, family, and friends may trigger the feeling of worthlessness and loss of interest in daily activity such as hobbies and sex.

2. Apathy and fatigue
Apathy and fatigue may be caused by thyroid problem or hormone imbalance. Apathy and fatigue in endometriosis is caused by the pressure of coping with any sort of pain that returns relentlessly every month, affecting her physical and emotional state.

3. Loss of concentration and memory
Many women with endometrosis also suffer from anemia caused by heavy blood flow leading to deficiency of iron, folate aid, and vitamin B12 which are necessary for reproduction of red blood cells and to increase transportation of oxygen to brain cells, causing loss of concentration and memory.

4. Irritability
Irritation besides being caused by hormonal imbalance in the women with endometriosis during the menstrual cycle. Stress and confusion for woman with endometriosis is understandable. It is best to cope with the stress and try understand the disease and how to treat it. Denial of any of this not only causes more emotional pressure but also irritates any suggestion and help.

5. Loss of self confidence
It is hard for woman to perform daily activities with menstrual cramps on her back. It not only affects her work but also causes absence due to sickness every month in the work place. Without understanding by her boss and family, women with endometriosis may lose self confidence in her job as well as at home.

6. Insomnia
Insomnia is common among women with endometriosis because it is caused by the pain keeping them awake during the night.

Think on the right side and put on a happy face, endometriosis is controllable and treatable with conventional medicine, nutritional supplements, and natural remedies together with a change of diet, you should recover soon.

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Ednometriosis and Chemical Cells Salt – Calcarea Phosphorica (Calcium Phosphate, Ca3(Po4))

Comments: 0April 8th, 2010 by admin



As we mentioned in other articles, endometriosis growing somewhere else other than the endometrium also reacts to hormonal signals of the monthly menstrual cycle, building up tissue by breaking it, and eliminating it through the menstrual period. As we know chemical cells salt play a very important role in some culture in treating some kinds of diseases. In this article, we will discuss how Calcarea Phosphorica (calcium phosphate, Ca3(Po4)) helps to treat endometriosis.

I. Definition

Calcarea Phosphorica (calcium phosphate, Ca3(Po4)), also known as phosphate of lime. it plays an important role for body growth and nourishment. It has been used in treating people with anemia in homeopathic medicine.

II. How Calcarea phosphorica (calcium phosphate, Ca3(Po4)) effects endometriosis

1. Anemia
Calcarea phosphorica is a homeopathic medicine that is said to helps increase the production of red blood cell and blood. It is essential for women with heavy blood flow during menstruation for replacing blood loss.

2. Tissue relaxation
It is also said to help support the body tissues, including the abdominal muscle tissue, thereby it helps to relax the muscle tension caused by hormone imbalance resulting in decreasing the menstrual cramps for women with endometriosis.

3. Coagulation
Calcarea phosphorica is also helps to support body tissues by blood clotting that helps to reduce excessive menstrual flow by helping the capillaries and blood vessels in the abdomen to clot.

4. Water retention
It also helps to stimulate waste disposal through lympathic functions thereby decreasing the risk of water retention caused by excessive sodium and deficiency of potassium.

5. Numbness and crawling
Numbness and crawling is caused by irregular function of tissues due to tension of nervous system. By improving the body tissues’ function such as muscle and blood flow, calcarea phosphorica helps to relax and reduce pain for women with endometriosis.

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The Ovulation Process

Comments: 0October 31st, 2009 by admin



Interestingly, a woman is born with all of the eggs that she will ever have. In other words, she does not produce any more eggs once she is born. During puberty, a girl begins the menstrual cycle, which is the process of preparing the body for possible pregnancy. One important phase in the menstrual cycle is called ovulation, where you monthly release the eggs present in your body.

First, it is important to understand the basic structure of a woman’s reproductive system. A woman’s ovaries are connected to the uterus by fallopian tubes. Your eggs are nestled in the ovaries in an immature form. Your body’s hormones help regulate the maturation, release, and flushing out of your eggs. All of this, save for the actual bleeding of the menstrual cycle, is part of the ovulation process.

Ovulation is divided into two different portions. These two parts are called the follicular phase and luteal phase. The follicular phase begins on the first day of the last menstrual period, and it can last 7-40 days. Over this time, your body has a rise in follicle stimulating hormone, which eventually leads a follicle to produce a mature egg. At the same time, the follicle itself releases a form of estrogen that causes the lining of the uterus to thicken, to prepare for a possible fertilized egg.

Next, you undergo actual ovulation, when the egg bursts from the follicle. The egg travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus, and it can be fertilized in either location. Additionally, you cannot predict whether only your left or right ovary will release the mature egg, or both. After release, the egg can survive for 12-24 hours.

Ovulation is the first day of the luteal phase, which then lasts until you start your next period. During this time, your body produces hormones that would help the egg to implant in the uterus should it be fertilized. 12-16 days after ovulation, the luteal cycle ends as your body flushes out the egg and lining of the uterus so that you can prepare again for ovulation.

One of the ways that women prevent unwanted pregnancy is by controlling ovulation. Oral contraceptives such as YAZ, Yasmin, and Ocella use special hormones to prevent early ovulation so that you can avoid pregnancy. However, these hormones have also been linked to serious health problems such as heart attack and stroke. If you have suffered from the negative side effects associated with YAZ, Yasmin, or Ocella, visit the website of the YAZ attorneys from Williams Kherkher today.

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Endometriosis and Vitamin B12

Comments: 0May 15th, 2009 by admin



As we mentioned in other articles, endometriosis growing somewhere else other than the endometrium also reacts to hormonal signals of the monthly menstrual cycle by building up tissue, breaking it, and eliminating it through the menstrual period. As we know nutritional supplements play a very important role in some culture in treating all kind of diseases. In this article, we will discuss how Vitamin B12 helps to treat endometriosis.

I. Definition
Vitamin B12 is a water soluble vitamin and a member of vitamin B complex. It plays an important role in treating women with endometriosis, such as reducing symptoms of endometriosis during menstrual cycle, maintaining protein and fat metabolism, avoiding iron deficiency, etc.

II. Endometriosis and vitamin B12
1. Anemia
Women with endometriosis are found to have low levels of vitamin B12 during menstrual cycle for what ever reason. Deficiency of Vitamin B12 deceases the production of red blood cell in the blood stream causing depletion of levels of iron in the blood leading to anemia.

2. Nervous system
Vitamin B12 is vital for protein and fat synthesis that helps to strengthen the function of nervous system resulting in lessening the nervous tension such as irritation, loss of memory, depression and mood swing.

3. Insomnia and fatigue
Besides helping in protein and fat synthesis, vitamin B12 also play an important role in carbohydrate metabolism that helps to provide energy for our body function and aids in insomnia and fatigue.

4. Immune system
Liver required vitamin B12 to function properly, deficiency of vitamin B12 causes enlarged liver resulting in decreasing the function of liver in fighting against environment toxins leading to high levels of bad estrogen in the body resulting in menstrual cramps for women with endometriosis.

5. Cell abnormality
Vitamin B12 is vital for the synthesis of DNA. Deficiency of vitamin B12 increases the risk of abnormal cell growth in the body such as endometrial cells growing somewhere else in the abdomen.

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