Diet, Hormones and Prolotherapy
A patient who had received 95% pain relief of neck and TMJ pain with two Prolotherapy treatments back in 2006, recently contacted us because her pain was recurring.

She was pregnant for most of 2007 and felt great. She is currently breast feeding her infant son and her pain was coming back. She stated she also felt like her neck and TMJ pain occurred with greater frequency at the time of ovulation (mid cycle), though currently she was not having menses because of breast feeding. She wondered about getting Hauser Diet Typing and hormone testing, along with more Prolotherapy. These are great questions.

The best time to get Diet Typing and hormone testing is when you are having pain. She is currently having a recurrence of her pain, so now would be a great time to get testing. I think she should get food allergy testing also because this will not only help her but also her son. We have had cases where the child had terrible colic because the mother was eating foods she was allergic to and somehow transmitted that the infant. I can’t prove that, except to say when the mom stopped eating the allergic foods, the baby’s colic went away (in babies that are getting breast fed).

Bottom line is food can cause pain. Hormones, in a sense, can cause pain as well.

When a person is pain-free with pregnancy and then pregnancy is over and the pain recurs, it makes one think that the elevated progesterone levels during pregnancy were helping relieve the pain. So supplementing with some progesterone or chaste berry may be indicated in these cases. Chaste berry, in some female patients, helps raise progesterone levels. We have also found that eating the correct Hauser Diet Type helps some folks balance their hormones, which is another reason for this patient to get Hauser Diet Typing. The other clue in this case that hormones are associated with her pain is that she has had increased pain at ovulation in the past.

This is the time in the cycle that estrogen levels are their highest. So it seems that this patient has increased pain when her estrogen/progesterone ratio is raised. By helping her lower her estrogens and raise her progesterone, I suspect her pain will be greatly diminished. The manor that this can be done depends on the patient. She could use diet alone, diet with hormones, diet with herbs, herbs, or just hormones. Obviously, this will be discussed with her. In a natural medicine office, clinical decisions are made always with the patient's preference in mind.