Symptons Of Teen Depression
Q: I have a 17 year old who has never had a normal cycle. She had her
first period at age 15...a few days of spotting basically. It stopped
and never came back. We took her to OB/GYN at 16 who put her on BCP
which finally got her period up and going and cleared up her skin.
After a year I asked her to go off them to see of her body would
naturally do its own thing. It did not. After three months she went
back on the pill. Now I've taken her off the pill again determined to
find out if she's ovulating. I've taught her how to chart and she just
started doing that. Her temps on the whole are very low ranging in the
96.6 to 97.0 range. Its only been a few days so I can't tell much.
I think I'm on the right track of getting her off the pills for now to
see what her own body is doing and why. I don't want her to have
problems dealing with IF like myself years from now (she's my
stepdaughter). But if she doesn't have spikes in her temps what could
that mean or if she does and yet doesn't have a period what could that
mean and even further: are there natural remedies to this problem.
Too many questions I know but some wisdom would be greatly
appreciated!!!!
A:Anovulatory cycles are becoming more and more prevalent in today's
society. This is mostly due to Oestrogen Dominance symptons. Man
made chemicals found in the petrol chemical industry (which are all
oestrogen based) are finding their way into our foods, air and water.
Plastic comes from a petrol base - think about it 99% our food comes
wrapped in plastic in some form or another. Our foods are chemically
enhanced (chicken, beef, pork and lamb are all given growth stimulants
(oestrogen) in order that they fatten quicker so that the farmers get
faster turn around making more profit, Non organic vegetables are
given stimulants so they last longer etc (You get the picture). Most
women are put on the pill so they don't fall preganent and then from
pill they move to HRT's (another oestrogen hormone).
When we women enter puberity there hormones are basically instable as
the body adjusts - terrible teens. Teens are moody, depressive, have
bad skin, develop a sex drive, put on weight etc. Why?
In a womens natural cycle 26 - 28 days, the ovaries receive messages
from the brain to get ready for fertilizaton. Eggs begin to mature
inside the follicles. After 10 days one egg is ready and bursts
releasing the egg into the fallopian tube for its journey to the
uterus. The follicle then becomes the corpus luteum.
Oestrogen levels rise during the first half of the cycle. Oestrogen's
role during the fertile female cycle is to build up the endometiral
lining quickly. This becomes thick and engorged with blood that will
nourish the growing embryo. Oestrogen levels peak on about the 12th
day and then tapers off just before ovulation. Genetisist, Dr Formby
found that Oesrogen switches on the onca gene, the BCL2 Gene, that
gives the message