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Diet, Hormones and Prolotherapy
Ross
Hauser, M.D.
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.
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