September 28, 2019
Ok, I’m going to be a share-bare with you. I recently went out on my first date since my divorce. Since I do osteopathic manipulations (Visceral Manipulation™) and my date is an osteopathic physician we had lots to chat about over dinner…like dermoid cysts and impacted bowels. 🙂 So over appetizers, he showed me MRI images he had stored on his phone of an IUD that migrated into the abdominal cavity, a gunshot wound to the chest and one to the foot, and of course, he showed me a rectum that was so impacted with stool it looked like it was about the size of my thigh! (ok, read the next sentence in a soft sensual voice)… He then reached over and put his hand on my waist and looked me up and down with bedroom eyes and said, “You’re so slender you probably weigh less than that impacted bowel.” I think he was complimenting me by comparing me to a rectum stuffed with fecal matter. …Thanks? Not the first time I’ve been compared to a rectum. Anyway, at one point he told me that he always recommends hysterectomies in cases of endometriosis or other uterine problems as long as the woman is done having babies! Does he not know who he is talking to? I mean, I have been known to dance around my living room wearing a uterine suit. When I told him that hysterectomies don’t cure endometriosis he dismissed me with a wave of his hand and a chuckle. Then when I told him the uterus carries on a conversation with the ovaries for 25 years after menopause, he looked at me as though I had horns growing out of my head even though evidence of the uterus as a hormone-producing organ was published decades ago. Many doctors still view the uterus as an unresponsive blob after childbearing.
“Half of all women over 60 will have a hysterectomy, and many younger women even in their 20s and 30s, usually for benign reasons that can be treated in other, non-surgical ways. Yet 20 percent are considered medically entirely unnecessary, and only 30 percent of women who have been advised to have a hysterectomy are informed of non-surgical alternatives by their doctor.” Dr. Aviva Romm, MD
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The Uterus & The Brain
The uterus communicates with the brain “Hormones affect both brain and other body systems, and having an altered hormonal profile could impact the trajectory of cognitive aging and could create different health risks”