Hello, I am pleading for help with my dear 15 year old sister. I am at my wits end and would do anything to bring her health up to scratch. Please pardon the delay in my lengthy post in advance.
SO... my little sister is 15. She got her periods early at 10. I believe it was because she was irresponsibly placed on ritalin for one year prior to her period. She went through a growth spurt. ( I have a background in psych and did papers on ritalin in uni and am dead against it for the control of children's behaviour). My sister didn't have a behaviour issue, she just needed to be taught how to sit, deep breath, relax and focus. She was a very sweet child.
Anyhow she discontinued ritalin and after commencement of menstruating gained considerable weight - despite a short stature. It seemed her growth spirt ceased and till this day she still wears shoes for a 9 year old. However the wight increased at its max she was 64kg (141lbs) and only 5 feet and less than an inch - no gut, just butt and chest. She has not grown any taller since she was 12. She seems stunted at this height.
In 2015 there was quite sever emotional issues going on where she was living - and her mother was involved in a violent abusive relationship, substance abuse... and the private catholic school she went to and her mother ignored her pleas for help (contrived eating disorder and suicide attempt to get mother's attention to stop her bad choices). I stepped in as soon as I saw and took custody of her in sep 2015 as there was no way I would let my baby sister live in that environment. She was having her periods as was around 121lbs still just over 5ft.
It was a very stressful time for my sister and she went through the ringer emotionally. She was upset her mother chose that lifestyle over being her parent and felt severe rejection and could not make sense of her mothers bad choices. Her mother was being brash and irrational and it was extremely hurtful for her. She lost her period by jan 2016 and has never had it since till today OCT 2017. Her last two periods were very heavy, late and only one day each.
My lifestyle is organic, whole food, homeschool peaceful country life on a farm. We are spiritual people who pray and seek help from God for all our needs and this is certainly something we have been seeking His help for!!. We have done lots in terms of emotional work with my sister which improves every day. When she first came into my care, we bought junkfood for her for about a month and let he choose to eat a healthy diet like the rest of us - so it was a natural progression. We don't eat preservatives, sugar, and only organic meat. She lost a considerable amount of weight through stress and obviously also healthy eating. She struggles to keep her weight above 94lbs (43kg) at its best. We can get her weight up to 105lbs - but her digestion just cant take eating that amount of food anymore. Plus she just cant maintain the weight and it slides right off her, and anything, really, makes her loose weight. I think she worries and holds onto lots of hurt in her sweet heart. I do believe her weightloss is purely an emotional thing as she eats well - more than me (5'6'' 199lbs) and lots of healthy wholegrain carbs and fats.
We have tried every dietary food we can think of to help restore her period. I abhor it but I admit I even tried her with some soy (sigh!). Her diet is mainly brown rice, lentils, beans, fruit, veg, mackerel, sardines, tuna, white fish, with occasionally some farm-reared red meat and chicken (she has a bizarre new-found love for all offal). We eat a good amount of home laid eggs - NOTHING PROCESSED AND WHITE (flour or sugar), only brown organic wholemeal. We don't eat too much bread or grains - only a few times a month. Lots of good healthy fat (coconut oil, ghee, butter, e.v olive oil, tahini) and nuts and seeds. She has settled into rural life and homeschool and works on herself spiritually. But not having her period is making her so miserable and depressed. Its been two years! and She isn't overly athletic... just animal chores three times a day - mainly to build character and have a meaningful purpose, not too strenuous, just watering them. I bought her a bike but she seldom uses it.
-she has very fine tiny bones (risk of osteo issues)
-weak paper thin nails (used to be very beautiful and thick)
-thinning hair (used to be sooo thick and curly, now limp)
-no breasts (from DD to 8aa - which is big on her!)
- her personality is extremely withdrawn, quite, anxious and shy, very emotional and sensitive.. (She used to be outgoing and have a killer sense of humour)
-she has memory and brain fog problems
-she sometimes get red flushed cheeks when eating
- her skin seems to be relatively normal for a teen - few blackheads but nothing major, or noticeable.
She has had her hormones tested and she has ZERO oestrogen - YES ZERO!!. and very low of everything else, but nothing remarkably high. otherwise all her results were good. Our doc said its emotions. but this is a long time to not menstruate. Doc said Thyroid good. but I am dubious of testing methods - any ideas?
Her ultrasound showed tiny follicles on her ovaries and the doctor said it could be normal or it could be PCOS (I have PCOS and ovarian cysts myself which i treat naturally through a keto diet)... the doctor said she thought her ovaries were ok, but gave referal - which we are yet to pursue at this point.
Nothing we do can restore her period so far. I have tired iodine drops daily for 4 months, she has done the candida 6 week protocol, liver flush, lots of herbs herbs and more herbs and teas. I have tried her on my progestelle which seemed to help - we ran out and have just today purchased Dr Peat's progesterone oil as its many times more potent. I have also given her pregnenolone to help her boost in her hormones... but so far (3 weeks) nothing. maca didnt seem to do anything but give her what she says "creepy dreams". So we stopped that...
We are not into prescription medicines and we don't want to put our precious girl on the pill! (Or get her cut open by the butchers at hospital.) That's a dangerous synthetic chemical - we are doing everything to avoid that. She is against it but is at the point where she would try anything. She feels so sad about the whole matter... and i think that makes getting her period back even worse.
Our doctor is doing the wait and see approach and has given us a referral. But I do think that they are going to try and put her on some harmful fake drug that will only wreak more havoc on her body. We are very natural people and we just feel that has so much potential harm. But the pregnenolone and progesterone oil are our last attempts before we try. I do try so hard to push her body fat percentage up but its like her body is resisting. before she hardly ate a single mouthful and was overweight... now she eat a very decent amount and she is still so tiny.
I am so sad to see my beloved little sister suffer so much emotionally and physically - she doesn't laugh as much anymore. I think not having all her hormones balanced really effects her mentally. I am a worried parent to say the least. We would do anything, pay anything or drive to the end of the earth to get her a natural cure for her lack of period.
Can anyone please help me to help my sweet baby sister, I love her so much and I would do anything to see her happy again. Its very hard for me to see her suffering.
**Just thought I would add that I did treat her with abendozole when she first came into my care and we do lots of regular natural anti parasite things such as cayenne/acv/molasses bombs... So I tried to take care of every aspect I can think of! hopefully someone can show me where I am going wrong and failing!
**forgot to add we did try vitex too and Traditional Chinese medicine
SO... my little sister is 15. She got her periods early at 10. I believe it was because she was irresponsibly placed on ritalin for one year prior to her period. She went through a growth spurt. ( I have a background in psych and did papers on ritalin in uni and am dead against it for the control of children's behaviour). My sister didn't have a behaviour issue, she just needed to be taught how to sit, deep breath, relax and focus. She was a very sweet child.
Anyhow she discontinued ritalin and after commencement of menstruating gained considerable weight - despite a short stature. It seemed her growth spirt ceased and till this day she still wears shoes for a 9 year old. However the wight increased at its max she was 64kg (141lbs) and only 5 feet and less than an inch - no gut, just butt and chest. She has not grown any taller since she was 12. She seems stunted at this height.
In 2015 there was quite sever emotional issues going on where she was living - and her mother was involved in a violent abusive relationship, substance abuse... and the private catholic school she went to and her mother ignored her pleas for help (contrived eating disorder and suicide attempt to get mother's attention to stop her bad choices). I stepped in as soon as I saw and took custody of her in sep 2015 as there was no way I would let my baby sister live in that environment. She was having her periods as was around 121lbs still just over 5ft.
It was a very stressful time for my sister and she went through the ringer emotionally. She was upset her mother chose that lifestyle over being her parent and felt severe rejection and could not make sense of her mothers bad choices. Her mother was being brash and irrational and it was extremely hurtful for her. She lost her period by jan 2016 and has never had it since till today OCT 2017. Her last two periods were very heavy, late and only one day each.
My lifestyle is organic, whole food, homeschool peaceful country life on a farm. We are spiritual people who pray and seek help from God for all our needs and this is certainly something we have been seeking His help for!!. We have done lots in terms of emotional work with my sister which improves every day. When she first came into my care, we bought junkfood for her for about a month and let he choose to eat a healthy diet like the rest of us - so it was a natural progression. We don't eat preservatives, sugar, and only organic meat. She lost a considerable amount of weight through stress and obviously also healthy eating. She struggles to keep her weight above 94lbs (43kg) at its best. We can get her weight up to 105lbs - but her digestion just cant take eating that amount of food anymore. Plus she just cant maintain the weight and it slides right off her, and anything, really, makes her loose weight. I think she worries and holds onto lots of hurt in her sweet heart. I do believe her weightloss is purely an emotional thing as she eats well - more than me (5'6'' 199lbs) and lots of healthy wholegrain carbs and fats.
We have tried every dietary food we can think of to help restore her period. I abhor it but I admit I even tried her with some soy (sigh!). Her diet is mainly brown rice, lentils, beans, fruit, veg, mackerel, sardines, tuna, white fish, with occasionally some farm-reared red meat and chicken (she has a bizarre new-found love for all offal). We eat a good amount of home laid eggs - NOTHING PROCESSED AND WHITE (flour or sugar), only brown organic wholemeal. We don't eat too much bread or grains - only a few times a month. Lots of good healthy fat (coconut oil, ghee, butter, e.v olive oil, tahini) and nuts and seeds. She has settled into rural life and homeschool and works on herself spiritually. But not having her period is making her so miserable and depressed. Its been two years! and She isn't overly athletic... just animal chores three times a day - mainly to build character and have a meaningful purpose, not too strenuous, just watering them. I bought her a bike but she seldom uses it.
-she has very fine tiny bones (risk of osteo issues)
-weak paper thin nails (used to be very beautiful and thick)
-thinning hair (used to be sooo thick and curly, now limp)
-no breasts (from DD to 8aa - which is big on her!)
- her personality is extremely withdrawn, quite, anxious and shy, very emotional and sensitive.. (She used to be outgoing and have a killer sense of humour)
-she has memory and brain fog problems
-she sometimes get red flushed cheeks when eating
- her skin seems to be relatively normal for a teen - few blackheads but nothing major, or noticeable.
She has had her hormones tested and she has ZERO oestrogen - YES ZERO!!. and very low of everything else, but nothing remarkably high. otherwise all her results were good. Our doc said its emotions. but this is a long time to not menstruate. Doc said Thyroid good. but I am dubious of testing methods - any ideas?
Her ultrasound showed tiny follicles on her ovaries and the doctor said it could be normal or it could be PCOS (I have PCOS and ovarian cysts myself which i treat naturally through a keto diet)... the doctor said she thought her ovaries were ok, but gave referal - which we are yet to pursue at this point.
Nothing we do can restore her period so far. I have tired iodine drops daily for 4 months, she has done the candida 6 week protocol, liver flush, lots of herbs herbs and more herbs and teas. I have tried her on my progestelle which seemed to help - we ran out and have just today purchased Dr Peat's progesterone oil as its many times more potent. I have also given her pregnenolone to help her boost in her hormones... but so far (3 weeks) nothing. maca didnt seem to do anything but give her what she says "creepy dreams". So we stopped that...
We are not into prescription medicines and we don't want to put our precious girl on the pill! (Or get her cut open by the butchers at hospital.) That's a dangerous synthetic chemical - we are doing everything to avoid that. She is against it but is at the point where she would try anything. She feels so sad about the whole matter... and i think that makes getting her period back even worse.
Our doctor is doing the wait and see approach and has given us a referral. But I do think that they are going to try and put her on some harmful fake drug that will only wreak more havoc on her body. We are very natural people and we just feel that has so much potential harm. But the pregnenolone and progesterone oil are our last attempts before we try. I do try so hard to push her body fat percentage up but its like her body is resisting. before she hardly ate a single mouthful and was overweight... now she eat a very decent amount and she is still so tiny.
I am so sad to see my beloved little sister suffer so much emotionally and physically - she doesn't laugh as much anymore. I think not having all her hormones balanced really effects her mentally. I am a worried parent to say the least. We would do anything, pay anything or drive to the end of the earth to get her a natural cure for her lack of period.
Can anyone please help me to help my sweet baby sister, I love her so much and I would do anything to see her happy again. Its very hard for me to see her suffering.
**Just thought I would add that I did treat her with abendozole when she first came into my care and we do lots of regular natural anti parasite things such as cayenne/acv/molasses bombs... So I tried to take care of every aspect I can think of! hopefully someone can show me where I am going wrong and failing!
**forgot to add we did try vitex too and Traditional Chinese medicine
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