Added: 01/16/2007 |
A Topic of Interest to Women: Menstruation and its ProblemsDuring "Breast Health Awareness Month" of 2006, one web site presented a forum, a forum directed at women. Menstruation problems represented a sob-topic discussed by the experts who presented material in that forum. One of those experts felt strongly that the forum&'s subtopics begged for further discussion. She has used the following article as a motivator for such discussions.
That fact has influenced the development of American femininity for more than a century. Some women have uttered constant complaints about the pains they felt while having a period. Other women saw a challenge in the ability to carry-on despite such problems.
The ladies in the latter group represented a more sophisticated collection of women. Menstruation issues had not been seen by such women as impediments to a satisfying life. Such sophisticated women passed on to their daughters their willingness to confront any and all menstruation issues.
Take, for example, one woman and her two daughters, a trio that once lived in a suburb of Philadelphia. One of those two daughters matured into a woman at the expected rate. The other daughter, however, showed some preliminary spotting at the age of 14, and then her “periods” stopped.
The resourceful mother located doctors who were familiar with the multiple causes for irregular menstruation. Their examining rooms were equipped with the table and stirrups that are familiar to many grown women. Menstruation problems could be addressed in those examining rooms, using the procedure known as a pelvic examination.
That pelvic examination revealed the cause for a large number of menstruation problems. At times, however, it suggested a need for more tests. Some of those tests brought objections from younger women. Menstruation problems, those women found, could sometimes require the premature breaking of the hymen.
That invasive procedure permitted the insertion in the vagina of a small camera. Yet that invasive procedure could not promise to provide all of the answers, as they related to an irregular menstruation. . It did allow for the elimination of certain possibilities.
The performance of such a procedure showed that the young girl who had failed to mature fully did not have abnormalities on her ovaries. What no one realized at the time was that the malfunction in the young girl’s menstrual cycle stemmed from a the absence of the chemical that should cause the pituitary gland to release follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). In the absence of FSH, the ovaries could not mature, and could not release an ovum.
In the absence of a released ovum, the uterine lining would not form a cushion of blood cells. In the absence of those blood cells, the young woman had failed to have a regular period. The case history for that one young girl thus underlined clearly the strong link between the brain and the endocrine system. That case history almost remained unwritten, until the young woman chose to follow the doctors, and to move from Pennsylvania to Texas.
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