Author's personal experience of moon phases during hormonal substitution
treatment at the menopause
by Marie-Helene Le Doze
It was not becoming old I found difficult to accept, but the
idea of taking a hormonal substitution treatment during pre-menopause,
which came about when I was relatively young at the age of 45,
in the same year that I set up ChronoDynamie®. What was natural
seemed of priority to me and so my becoming old seemed natural
too. At first I took a food supplement in the form of selenium
in capsules made by Fénioux Laboratories (Chatellerault-France).
I took this at my top time : I put up with hot flushes by imagining
myself on a tropical beach.
But a bit later my allopathic doctor friend convinced me that
with the asthma precedents and with the cortisone treatment that
I had had to follow since my youth to offset the more severe
crises, had made me particularly in danger of developing osteoporosis
later.
I therefore followed the treatment set up by the gynaecologist,
taking the capsules and gel at certain moments of the month.
But other problems came to the front which were far more serious
in the present: circulation problems which gave me atrocious
suffering.
I went to see the surgeon who refused to operate on my legs...because
he said he saw a lot of bad side effects, particularly circulation
problems, on patients taking substitution treatment. He advised
me to consult my gynaecologist again and reduce the treatment.
I first of all reduced the doses and took them at my most favorable
hours in ChronoDynamie® (GOOD HOURS), and I felt better in
fact; as I was no longer afraid of having to have an operation
for varicose veins and I didn't have so many hot flushes.
When running through the prescriptions relating to my treatments
I thought they corresponded to moon phases, rather like when
taking the contraceptive pill. I consequently adapted my
treatment to moon phases in the same way
I start the treatment at the new moon. I take the estrogen gel
alone during the first two quarters. In addition I take the progesterone
capsules from full moon to the last quarter. I let my body rest
during the last quarter up to the moon when I start the treatment
again.
This treatment is easy to follow as the moon phases are noted
in all good calendars and the changes in moon phases are visible
in the sky and at full moon are a reminder that it is time to
take the progesterone capsules. I like this message from above,
this intimate relationship with the heavens.
This is my personal experience. I can't explain it, but I have
been experimenting it satisfactorily over a number of years;
I feel fine, have no side effects which, for me, is the
only thing that counts.
For me, my personal experience is more convincing than all scientific
demonstrations. I believe in which I see and I see the moon changing
each quarter of the month. I have rediscovered my deep feminity
by continuing to have this secret conversation with it although
my monthly cycle has changed. And instead of feeling diminished
in my seductive powers as a woman, I feel enriched by ancestral
wisdom which gives me profound serenity.
Marie-Hélène Le Doze
The Moon's Phases during the Month
Conception and graphics by Marie-Hélène Le Doze. Prograamation by Yves Anciant. Translated by Penelope Dulling.
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