April 2009

to check out bomamed blogs as well as this blog bc I more often than not, do not double post. And, often there are interesting points over there that, although are not specific to IC, related to your general health.

For example, today I did a reminder about cold and flu remedies. Please remember to tell me
if you get sick with a cold or flu so that I can guide you through! The remedies we use in general
Chinese medicine as well as the ones we use at Bomamed that we developed ourselves are
outstanding for the treatment of colds and flus and work very effectively. This includes the
accompanying symptoms of these pathogens.

In my dissertation I discuss the importance of the ovaries to the health of women and how
removing the ovaries may negatively impact and inter-relate to IC.

Dr. Parker, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at both Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and, most recently, at Saint John’s Health Center- also a Clinical Professor of Ob/Gyn at UCLA since 1995, has been a supporter of my work for years. He has been a part of publishing recent research that substantiates the importance of the ovaries and discusses why physicians should not necessarily take them out as a matter of course as they have been trained to do when performing hysterectomies. 

ICAMA was a vision of mine that developed and evolved over my extensive clinical and academic
years of experience that spans nearly a decade and a half. IT is really now only at the 
beginning because there is so much more that I hope to bring to those with IC.

It has always been my goal to bridge the gap between Western and alternative medicines, but
even more so since my deepened experience with IC.

My dissertation and my Ph.D consumed an additional six years of my life over and above the
six years of education that it took to earn my Master's  and become licensed.

My Ph.D dissertation, based on my area of expertise, is rich with Western clinical research

IF people missed this, it is a great post/response about pregnancy on my pregnancy blog post:

I am currently pregnant with my second child and wanted to write in and share some of
my experience.  I have been symptom free from my IC for almost six years now.  
While pregnant I did feel the "normal" pregnancy bladder pressure but that was all!!!  
I lead a very sugar-free life with the occasional agave sweetened treat.  I know that
during pregnancy it is extremely hard to curb the cravings and it feels like a time where
it is okay to indulge.  The thing that really prevented me from indulging in my sweet
cravings was reminding myself that whatever I eat my baby also eats.  Did I want her