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Researchers administered a modified form of GnRH to five girls with the disease between the ages of two and seven. For all five, menstrual cycles and the bone-hardening process, which would have stunted growth at an early age, stopped. Both symptoms resumed when the treatment was temporarily discontinued, Crowley said yesterday...
...reporters who visited the university clinic complained of nervousness. anxiety and menstrual cramps. According to the reporters, they were given very brief examinations and prescribed a variety of medications, including a tranquilizer and a sleeping pill...
Thank you for your article "Coping with Eve's Curse" [July 27]. I've suffered for ten years with menstrual pain, and let me assure you, it's not just a figment of my imagination. Ironically, some of the most unsympathetic responses I've heard have been from other women; from the high school nurse who offered me a peppermint, to the nurse at the hospital emergency room who told me that I'd just have to wait until I had my first baby. She advised that then maybe the pain would subside. Simple acceptance...
...despite its impact, menstrual distress rarely has stirred medical interest. Some attribute the neglect to sexist bias by a male-dominated medical Establishment. Says Family Practitioner Penny Budoff of the State University of New York at Stony Brook: "Many physicians act as if pain is women's due and getting rid of it is almost sacrilegious." A more basic reason may be that doctors have been unable to explain the link between a bewildering array of physical and psychological problems and a normal physiological event. As a result, women have been urged to cope as best they can with...
Less understood than menstrual cramps is the premenstrual syndrome. Days or even two weeks before menstrual bleeding begins, many women experience tenderness and swelling of the breasts, migraine headaches, abdominal bloating and acne. They become lethargic, irritable and depressed. Researchers contend that severely distressed women are apt to have accidents, abuse their children or commit suicide or violent crime...