When you suffer from hormonal problems like PMDD or PMS, your doctor’s stock response is likely to be to prescribe hormonal birth control or antidepressants (SSRIs) as a “treatment” for these conditions.

 

There are significant issues with this approach. Using hormonal birth control as a “treatment” essentially transfers the management of your hormones to an external source, completely overriding your body’s own hormone processes. This approach can be acceptable where birth control is needed and if the particular Rx has the desired effect of minimising symptoms. However, this “treatment” will do nothing to resolve the root cause of your hormonal problems. It is a sticky plaster approach, kicking the can of healing down the road at best.

 

However, the scenario in which different birth control options aggravate our symptoms or introduce unmanageable side effects is very real for many. The birth control approach is completely hit and hope. The patient is encouraged to try each new option for a good six months to allow their body to settle into it. But when you’re suffering from hormonal symptoms and side effects, waiting each new option out for so long can lead us to lose many years to poor mental health, searching for a solution that works. Trust me; I have lived this pain! And if we do find a solution that works, it may not even be appropriate for long term use due to changing risk factors or family circumstances.

 

For many of us, we end up going through this process of testing different options at the same time as raising a young family—what a difficult time to experiment with things as fundamental as your moods and hormones. Personally, I’ve had intense reactions to several different birth control options. On the whole, I feel cheated about the number of months and years I’ve spent feeling terrible due to trialling different hormonal birth control options. I feel like I’ve lost big chunks of my kids’ childhoods.

 

Similarly, using antidepressants to treat hormonal problems will commonly introduce significant side effects that negatively impact patients’ quality of life. Often a patient will choose these side effects over the severe PMDD symptoms they were experiencing, but this is a disappointing choice to make;  It’s a loose-loose situation – choosing a crap that is slightly less crap than the original crap.

 

When I hear of women making these kinds of sacrifices to alleviate their PMDD symptoms, I feel so gutted. My passion is that all PMDD sufferers at least be aware that an alternative natural treatment option is available. Treating the condition by natural means is not only effective and long-lasting, but it also creates a complete u-turn in your health and your life, bringing results you didn’t even imagine possible.

 

Another issue with using antidepressants as a “treatment” is that the body builds tolerance to the dosage over time. The same amount of antidepressants stops having the same effect on symptom management, leading the Dr to increase the dosage, amplifying the side effects. And so the approach goes on until it becomes unviable to continue.

 

The alternative natural approach to treatment is to heal the body and balance the hormones using Rx-free techniques. My job as a hormone health coach is to help you achieve this level of healing in the quickest possible timeframe. And the only side effects you can expect from this treatment is super-charging your health, catapulting you to new highs of wellness you’ve never experienced before, leaving you with an abundance of energy and resolving many nagging chronic health conditions along the way 😍

 

When you work with me as your hormone health coach, I will be your guide, your coach, the cheerleader in your corner. I will offer you the tools and ideas you need when you need them to super-charge your healing journey in the most profound of ways.

 

When we work together in a coaching container, we will first do a DUTCH test – an easy, comprehensive at-home hormone test. The results of this test will show us exactly where the problem in your hormone balance lies. It might be in hormone production or the processing or elimination stages of the process. The insights gained from the DUTCH test is invaluable in speeding up your healing transformation. It enables us to focus in on a tailored solution from the get-go, super-charging your body’s healing. During the sessions and in between, I introduce different concepts and practices that will help you build the tools to heal your hormones and maintain balance moving forward throughout your menstruating years.