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binabby:
Hi,

Just wanted to give us a quick update on how I'm faring ( guess someone might need to use that info in the future)

So I started my vitamin supplementation last week just as someone on this thread recommended.

Although I did a bit of research before commencing.

Full details:

I saw a video on YouTube where someone said they were bleeding for 4months non-stop and literally did all the test their gynae recommended - yet nothing was found to be the root cause and drugs weren't even working


Happened that someone else recommended they take iron pills considering that the heavy bleeding can make them anemic. Surprisingly, they started the iron pills and their bleeding stopped.

After seeing that YouTube video, I jumped into more research on the relationship between vitamins and female hormones

From my research, I gathered that vitamins like iron, magnesium, zinc, b-complexes, and vit c are very essential for balancing hormones

So I started taking a combination of these (excluding magnesium) on Thursday.

I took them in their right dosage and to my utmost surprise, the bleeding stopped. It didn't stop abruptly though but it drastically reduced and gradually faded away in 3days.

I'm fully okay and back to my normal life.

Additional details
- The chest pain and back pain I got as side effects from duphaston has disappeared

- Severe headache I got as side effect has also gone

- Aggression, mood swings, and anxiety signs I got during the hormonal crisis are also gone

I feel so brand new and happy.

Thanks to everyone who came to my aid on this thread. I'm utterly grateful for your suggestion.

PS: will be starting my vitex supplement next month and hoping it helps stabilise everything

Oops I lost track of this topic. I am glad to fall back on it to realise you have journeyed your way to good health through meticulous research on your condition. I'm glad you stumbled on the outstanding benefits of the micronutrient magnesium. Whilst it is difficult for healthy individuals on a balanced diet to be magnesium deficient needs may change over the course of life.

Magnesium has steadily found a place as a cornerstone in gynaecology. In women, there are various physiopathological conditions that may increase magnesium requirements, useful for both disease prevention and treatment. Magnesium use in women, both in terms of prevention and treatment, is extended to many health issues from PCOS to pre-menstrual syndrome, from pregnancy to menopause and beyond.

Steadily the importance of quality and safe natural alternatives to health are picking steam across the world with the internet giving many patients the power and knowledge to make informed decisions... Wishing you the best

Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell MEDICINA

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Most stakeholders accept the future of healthcare is in Pharmaceutical care as the full range of knowledge and skills of Pharmacists can be beneficially and appropriately harnessed.

The qualifications of a Pharmacists across different countries have morphed from Bsc (Pharm) to PharmD (Doctorate in Pharmacy) consequently receiving the same clinical instructions as medical doctors.

Therefore most Pharmacists are qualified to provide treatment options, manage medication side effects, interpret lab results, perform physical exams, and administer vaccines, among several other professional services

The benefits of integrating Pharmacists into active clinical settings have been clearly demonstrated in the US.

When Pharmacists get utilised beyond their primary role of monitoring and dispensing medications their impact can be fully felt in alleviating the huge burden on Physicians, as elderly and old old patients can get into the management roaster of Pharmacists while Physicians target new and complex cases.

Acccording to Deloitte research, healthcare in the future will become increasingly focused on prevention rather than treatment, with healthcare increasingly taking place in the home or the community. In such a future, the pharmacist workforce could move toward providing clinical services and primary and specialty care such as cell and gene therapy, as well as assisting patients with digital healthcare devices.

Federally Qualified Health Centers in the US, a community healthcare setting that provides health services to underserved populations like illegal migrants have clearly demonstrated the importance of fully intergrating Pharmacists into the clinical settings

According to a report published in the American Journal of Clinical Pharmacy on the role of Clinical Pharmacists in FQHC in the US, Pharmacists in FQHCs are providing care that is interprofessional, multifaceted, and evolving rapidly in response to environmental changes. Pharmacists are routinely involved in the traditional management of chronic disease, such as diabetes, hypertension, behavioral health, and respiratory conditions. In addition, pharmacists have forged roles in preventive care, infectious disease, and pain management.

At such it is safe to say the skills and learning of Pharmacists clearly tailored towards clinical practice can also benefit most hospital settings across Africa placing them at a role that surpasses monitoring and dispensing of drugs in both private and public practice

Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell MEDICINA

Padipadi:
You don't post educative post related to medicine or science. Your knowledge is needed here so much.

Thank you Sir. Hence forth I would make an effort to be frequent on the Health Section of Nairaland. I'm looking at starting a health blog and vlog too. For the average African there is a lot of fake health tips out there promoted through myth, folklore, superstition and social media. I wanted to set up a vlog that demystifies fact from fiction to advance health in one way or the other. My area of expertise is in Pharmacognosy which is the science of the knowledge of the physical and chemical structure of drugs of natural origin....

Zeezenho:
Ya you were right.but my doctors told me I have a rear kind of antibody that prevents me from most kind of infections.

😅😅😅😅
Lucky You

lomaxx:
Nah. Science is science whether it’s HIV or Covid-19.

HIV Exposure means one has been in contact with the virus but cannot ascertain whether they have been infected.

Case in point: HIV Exposed Infants. They are exposed because they are in contact with an HIV-infected mother.

Contact with body fluids of an infected person is the only way to get the virus, why should the definition of HIV exposure via sexual intercourse be different?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines exposure as the state of having no protection from something harmful. In the case of Covid people were required to wear masks and social distance irrespective of wether it was obvious the parties around were positive or not.

I don't know if you in the health field but there is a non Occupational Post Exposure Prophylaxis treatment known as nPrEP recommended by the WHO in 2013 to be offered to victims of rape. In most cases the victims dont need to proof whoever raped them was HIV positive. So long as the degree of sexual assault is deemed risky based on the exchange of certain fluids, they get administered Post Exposure Treatment. So yes each time you have unprotected sex with someone whose HIV status you can't ascertain, you get exposed to their bodily fluids and Potentially Exposed to HIV and other STD's

Zeezenho:
I dated an Hiv positive lady we had unprotected sex for years before I found out she is positive surprise surprise its over 10 years now and am still negative.

If she was on antiretroviral medications as it should be the case her viral load would be non detectable, making it hard for her to pass on the virus

NaughtyBrainiac:
What do you people mean by "After exposure" ?

Is it After unprotected sexual intercouse with someone you don't know his or her status OR

After having unprotected sexual intercourse with someone that is HIV positive?

In the case of HIV, having unprotected sex with anyone whose HIV status you can't ascertain as of the time of the sexual encounter is an exposure to their bodily fluids which might contain HIV. Even more damning is the fact that once you sleep with someone whose status you can't ascertain it means in principle you have slept with everyone the have slept with

omejeb:
Thanks a lot sir,I will be going for a confirmation test by the month end..and I have questioned the lady I had sex with she told me she too feels scared and haven't had sex after since she gave birth as a single mom

I suppose your fear stems from having unprotected sex with someone whose HIV status you can't ascertain. Since you guys are still in communication you can ask her to run an HIV test too. I'm certain you are negative based on your 10week results but it's safe to have a confirmatory at 12 weeks per regulatory. I suppose you learned your lesson this time and would be more careful next time..All the best
Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell MEDICINA

omejeb:
I have done about two tests within the window periods..the first was 3weeks after exposure then the other one I did was 10weeks after the exposure but all came out negative..but the lab scientist told me I have to come back for a confirmatory test in three months time and that should be next month...i don't know the chances of it still going to show negative...fear wants to kill me here 😪😪😪😪

The window period for most HIV antibody tests is 3months (12weeks) after exposure. I don't know which test assay is popular in Nigeria, but in Cameroon the test kit DETERMINE is a first line cos of it's high sensitivity. That means it will for the most part pick up antibodies. Oral Quick is used for confirmation cos of it's high specificity. This means sometimes cos of DETERMINE's high sensitivity it could show a false positive that needs to be confirmed with a high specificity kit like Oral Quick that's good at detecting antibodies specific to HIV..

If you tested negative at the ten week mark it's very very likely you would be negative at the 12weeks mark. Most rapid tests in use in 2023 can accurately pick antibodies at the 6weeks mark. However in line with regulation do test again at the 12 weeks mark post exposure to have a confirmatory result

Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell MEDICINA

seborrhic:
Simple sense will tell you Russians and Russia couldn't have got richer,at best they weren't worse off.But of course commonsense died in some Nigerians ever since Buhari ruled these shores because one undisputed achievement of Buhari is making more Nigerians to have lower IQ
Did they sell more oil or wheat or weapons?
Or did they sell those items at higher prices or the subsidised prices they did to likes of China and India to attract buyers?
So where did the extra wealth come from.Oh,I know because one suspicious online propaganda blog wrote it,so of course there are f ools that would believe it.
Just like when Putin told supposedly presidents of some African countries that Russia would forgive their debts and they believed it like mentally retarded people.

You are pained by a publication from the Swiss Bank that Russia got richer. I doubt you read the article. Instead you choose to script out of emotions, hate and ignorance

Ibeme:
Your ignorance has been noted, with all due respect

Russian millionaires is not Russia, and American millionaires is not America

Russian millionaires wealth is tied to oil price while American millionaires wealth is tied to stockmarket

Wealth of Nations is measured by GDP and Russia got poorer by 2.1% while America got richer by 2.1%. Those are the facts, not the headline this clown OP put out

Next time make sure you know what you are talking about before you quote me.

You honestly think Russia's millionaires made 650Billion dollars without Russia benefitting through taxes and increased sales in petroleum products as indicated by the article. Besides the headlines across BBC and Reuters reads "Russia got Richer"

dreu2fine:
This is foundational or course in d family

We hear you Senior Pastor

fx45:
There's a reason why you cannot vote until you get to the age of 18... Same way you can't prosecute anyone below the age of 18. It is called the age of consent. Until you attain the age of consent, you're not liable for criminal prosecution

This is not accurate

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binabby:
Thank you so much Dr

I find every part of your response helpful. I'll do some research before taking the next line of action.

But in the meantime, I'm taking zinc and vit c as someone suggested here and I'm seeing some improvements.

Thanks again for the help.

You can never go wrong with the antioxidant effects of Vitamin C. I'm glad you getting better. Health is wealth. Wishing you all the best.

As the regulations change worldwide, Pharmacists are beggining to have an active role in consultations and patient care. Most PharmD degrees are now clinically oriented, placing Pharmacists at the forefront to better manage patients with their wealth of knowledge on the dos and dont of both prescription and OTC drugs

Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell MEDICINA

binabby:
Thanks Dr

I'm currently reading up on vitex and how it can help with abnormal bleeding. I've seen tons of testimonials on YouTube on how effective it works. My only confusion right now is most users said one can't take it while on period which I guess I'm not allowed to use considering that I'm still bleeding.

Do you have any other suggestions(supplements) that can help or what do you recommend (maybe take the vitex regardless)?

I'm just confused and worried that I'm losing tons of blood. It's day 4 since I stopped duphaston and have been bleeding for 3days straight.

Looking forward to your response.

I wish I knew how to send you a free bottle of Fallovel so you could feel it's quick magic on your situation. I will make some enquiries though. Where in Nigeria are you located? (Town).

Vitex agnus-castus is good and comprises one of the ingredients I use for my hormonal balance supplement. I do blend it though with other potent herbs like Black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa), Cramp Bark (Viburnum opulus) , Black Haw (Viburnum prunifolium), Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), Helonia (Chamaelirium luteum) Raspberry leaves (Rubus idaeus) etc.

If you can get a supplement from your area with a collection of two or more of the above herbs then you good to go. That said you definitely can start with Vitex. As a rule of thumb women using it to enhance ovulation are advised to skip the five days of menstrual flow. This shouldn't apply to you at this point

Without going into the nitty gritty Vitex works by decreasing the hormone prolactin which in turns helps to balance the estrogen - progesterone ratio. Vitex doesn't poséss phyto hormones that work directly on the ovaries. Instead it raises brain dopamine levels which blocks Prolactin levels, reduces FS hormones and raises the Luteinizing Hormone to raise progesterone and decrease estrogen.

I dont like that you losing much blood. If at some point you feel the need to revisit your gynaecologist for an emergency intervention don't hesitate. Vitex agnus-castus does take a little while to reap its benefits but when the set in, the results are near perfect and long lasting.

Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell MEDICINA

I am sorry to hear about your health travails. Gynaecological problems are as old as biblical times, thus you not alone. You mentioned seeing a doctor without specifying a Gynaecologist. You do realise your condition would be better handled by one.

Your symptoms are consistent with low levels of progesterone. I agree with your Dr mere symptoms and low progesterone doesn't always translate to PCOS. Whilst PCOS sufferers do suffer low progesterone levels that affects their ability to ovulate it takes a bunch of other hormonal tests and scans to confirm its presence.

If your Dr did rule out PCOS means he ran other hormonal profiles for LH, FSH, Total and Free Testosterone, DHEAS, Prolactin, Androstenedione and even insulin resistance as recent PCOS research now points to insulin resistance as a culprit.

I'm sorry the drug dyhydrogesterone (Duphaston) didn't do you much good either. Often prescribed for a wide range of Gynaecological disorders like painful period, progesterone related troubles, endometriosis, miscarriages, infertility and utérine bleeding, sometimes for some people it gets to promote more vagina bleeding it was intended to treat.(Drugs for you)

Unfortunately you are not in Cameroon I would for free have offered to you one of my approved Medicinal Supplements brewed into capsules from a bunch of herbs. By the way I am a Pharmacognosist with a PhD in the field. Since you mention being on folic I would recommend you add a supplement with Chasteberry (Vitex). It is good at balancing progesterone falls at a gradual to sufficient level.

Dr Ayukebot O Rowland
Pharmacognosist
Flavell Medicina

Vagina is the right word

Moneywirer:
Rubbish. Women in their mid 40s still give birth to very healthy babies. With zero complications.

True and so are girls in their late teens. However at 40+ a woman's healthy egg reserves would have dwindled considerably whilst the risk for genetic birth defects should have upped. Mind you I said risks. In my opinion there is no such thing as a perfect age to give birth. A successful pregnancy involves much more than age. That said the study is perfectly inline with modern research for the general population

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