Frequent, painful menses 11635...India
A 20-year-old woman suffered from frequent menses with heavy bleeding, abdominal pain, and fatigue since her menarche four years ago. Her periods occurred every 15 days and lasted 8 to 10 days each time. The USG scan and thyroid tests advised by her gynaecologist were normal. In Nov 2017, the doctor diagnosed the cause to be hormonal imbalance and prescribed iron, antispasmodic and progesterone tablets. There was no improvement except for 10% relief in abdominal pain. Even the haemoglobin level remained constant at 8. As her condition became much worse in May 2021, she began looking for alternative treatments. She approached the practitioner on 18 Aug 2021, in the midst of a heavy and painful period, and was given:
CC3.1 Heart tonic + CC8.7 Menses frequent…6TD
She stopped taking all allopathic medicines and after four days, on 22 Aug, she informed that her period lasted only four days and without any trace of pain! The dosage was reduced to TDS except during menses. For the next five months, she experienced painless menses lasting 4 to 5 days, occurring every 28 to 30 days. The fatigue also vanished. On 10 Feb 2022, the dosage was reduced to BD and gradually tapered down before stopping it on 12 Apr 2022. By 22 June, the patient’s haemoglobin level had gone up from 8 to 10.2.
As of Feb 2023, she continues to have a normal menstrual cycle with no symptoms of anaemia.