Chapter two

Coming back Home..

Coming back home.. Wow it has been quite some time since I wrote anything. So many life events have happened since opening this blog several months ago and I hate to admit I left growing cold. However it is 2023 and we are in an era of improvement.

Why welcome home you might be thinking.. or not. I’ll explain regardless of interest, maybe it’s a form of catharsis.

In order to be in the present I have to pull some archives to explain, let’s go back to 2003 where I got my first period and it was a mess. In the sense of I was being compared to other people and their cycles although every person is different. I had cycles that spanned 8 days sometimes up to 14. I would get my period for a consecutively at first and it was heavy. Maybe 3-4 years later I noticed that I started missing periods for months and then it’d come back pretty regularly then ghost me again for months. This brings me into my first appointment with a gynecologist (hmm let’s call her Dr. M). It was HORRIBLE, she kept insisting I was pregnant and I was lying to her. Sometimes Doctors suck and sometimes they are a God send.

She then kicked my mom out of the room and started with an ultrasound. Before she start’s she again repeats that if I’m hiding anything she’ll see it. I was not, simply I did not get a period. She then prescribed me birth control, which I took for some time. Being so young you don’t know what to say or how to act or even if you should question the decisions being made. Fast forward 3 years and I’m now in college and hemorrhaging for months, have to go to Urgent care then almost the hospital for a transfusion. I’m changing every 40 minutes (if you know you know), this was not convenient at all. I was given a strong birth control to stop the bleeding. I go back to the Bahamas and speak to my amazing Colombian Doctor. She refers me to Dr. H (for now this is what her name is), it was an amazing visit. She does an ultrasound and listens to me, to my symptoms and asks questions on medical history. She sees I have PCOS and confirms with bloodwork. She begins to explain to me what it means.

PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) is a Hormone problem that affects women in their childbearing years. That is the short of it, pretty much your hormones are all messed up and there are only so many ways to regulate it and the most common people gravitate to is pharmaceutical. Metformin along with birth control. I now 16 years later this is still the same approach.

I start seeing a different gynecologist in 2016 and I’ve stayed with her over the years. She did not address the issue at its root however management symptoms with Birth control, IUD and D&C or two to control my bleeding. It was difficult over the years and only now in 2023 have things really turned around. I started taking Ovasitol twice a day along with metformin. I also have epilepsy which means I take too much medication to be “normal”. During this journey of wanting to look for a Holistic approach I stumbled into integrative medicine. This is a Holistic approach that is all encompassing.

My doctor sat with me for one hour and listened to EVERYTHING. My lifestyle habits, my eating habits, my family history and the products I use. So you can imagine how intensive this appointment was. She then got into my immediate changes:

-       Change number 1: Drink green juice every morning to receive the vitamin K you are missing.  

-       Change number 2: Switch to plant based for a month, you can eat chicken but that’s it. No red meat or meat at all.

At this point I’m willing to try anything, so Plant based here we are. The difficult part of it all is that I have no idea where to start. This is my journey on a plant based life/hormone friendly life. I’ll be reviewing products that I’m introducing into my routine as well as talk about many things that come with making lifestyle changes.

Glad to have you here and hope to keep moving forward.