Spearmint and other Herbs I use for PCOS and Endometriosis

I have tried traditional medications, they didn’t help and sometimes made matters worse. So I decided to switch to a hippie doc.

I love Xena

So let’s start by talking about what PCOS stands for.
It stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Some of the symptoms of PCOS are missed cycles, cysts on the ovaries, and infertility, inability to loose weight no matter what, male pattern hair loss, male pattern hair growth, and other fertility problems like the inability to release eggs from the ovary.
The symptoms cause immense depression and social anxiety. Some women are born with the genes that cause PCOS, all it needed was the activation of puberty.
If a cyst ruptures it can cause internal bleeding.
Personally one overy was the size of a softball, the other a base ball. If I remember correctly they are suppose to be about the size of a golf ball.

Here are some not so fun facts about PCOS.

There is no cure for PCOS, though many claim they have found it. It just goes into remission/hibernation and can/does come back.
Evil people take advantage of women suffering from this and make money from them with false hope and promises.
First thing a traditional doctor tells you is you’re fat, and that you would be fixed if you just lost weight. They also push birth control pills heavily. Then they tell you, you will never have kids.

I proved them wrong and had children, it took many years though.

After I had my children my PCOS and endometriosis came back with a vengeance. Yes endometriosis on top of already having PCOS.

Endometriosis is an invisible illness that causes immense pain. The only way to truly find out if you have endometriosis it to have surgery.
Endometriosis, or Endo for short, is when the endometrial lining starts to grow in the wrong places in the abdomen. Causing swelling and a “pregnant belly” look. No joke, it makes women look pregnant, while they are unable to get pregnant. Kinda like salt and vinager in an open wound.
Endo causes stabbing and dull pain that can last hours, days and weeks. Sometimes even longer. It can be worse when there is a spike in hormones.
It wraps around other organs and causes scaring. It can cut off blood supplies to other organs.
It caused fertility problems too. It can cause women to have very heavy cycles and can cause hemorrhaging.

When I had my children I had to have a c-section, birth plans fell through because heart rates started to drop.
I believe when they cut me open and stitched me back up it activated the Endo.

So back to the herbs.
I take:
• Gymnema Sylvestre, in place of Metformin which is force fed to women with PCOS.
• Nettle for the PCOS, for the side effects
• Spearmint tea, for the side effects and hormonal inbalences caused by PCOS. This one is new and I am growing my own.

I also take Kelp( thyroid ), Zinc, CoQ10( heart ), vitamin D3 5,000, fish oil, magnesium(for heart palpitations, prescribed by a cardiologist), and a daily vitamin.

Along with all the herbbies, I have to eat a “Mediterranean diet”.
Red meat, such as cow meat, causes pain. Cow dairy causes pain as well.
I can eat moose meat, along with fish, pork, and poultry.
I eat lentils, brown rice, and beans.

All in all I think this meme I made fits PCOS and Endo to a tee

*i forgot to add that a hysterectomy partial/full is not a cure. Endometriosis is already outside of the uterus. Once PCOS and Endometriosis is activated it is very difficult to shut it off, or stop it. It kind of has a snowball effect on the endocrine system.