Unexplained or Medically Induced Chronic Illness?Unexplained. That’s what doctors call chronic illness. Conventional medicine says, ‘learn to live with it.’ Rather than
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Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing Alyssa Chavez about her journey through the challenges of endometriosis and infertility. In this
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Menopause is barreling down with a ferocity that is difficult to ignore. Like many women my age, I’ve had my share of
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Sometimes I just want to say stop the excuses, stop the rationalizations, just stop defending the pharmaceutical industry and those giving hormonal
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When I had a stroke at age 28, my doctors did some tests and found that I have a fairly common clotting
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Pulmonary emboli are notoriously difficult to diagnose clinically, especially in otherwise healthy young women. The early signs include such nondescript symptoms as
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As a child, at around age 5, I started experiencing severe pain in my legs and back. I had migraines from hell
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Women who undergo chemotherapy for any cancer often face infertility due to premature ovarian failure. The chemo drugs themselves deplete ovarian follicles
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