How Does Mainstream Medicine Treat Menstrual Pain?
Mainstream medicine's approach to menstrual pain is ibuprofen and a birth-control pill.
Cramps that fold you over. Bloat that needs a bigger waistband. "Normal." If you keep showing up: ultrasound, maybe an IUD, maybe a laparoscopy years later. Endometriosis gets a long wait. The prostaglandins and estrogen pattern get a pamphlet.
Sound like your last doctor's appointment?
What Does Mainstream Medicine Miss About Menstrual Pain?
Commonly missed root causes of menstrual pain include high estrogen relative to progesterone, inflammatory fats, adenomyosis or endometriosis, and a gut that swells with the cycle.
Pain that stops a workday is a signal, not a personality. High estrogen relative to progesterone, inflammatory fats, a uterus working against adenomyosis or endo, and a gut that swells with the cycle are mechanisms. Numbing the cramp once a month leaves the chemistry that wrote the cramp.
The Atma Approach looks at you as a unique person. Why is your cycle this painful?
Has your doctor ever talked to you about these commonly missed root causes?
Commonly Missed Root Causes
How Can Atma Clinic Help With Menstrual Pain?
Atma's doctors and nurse practitioners, certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine, work to find and treat the root cause of your menstrual pain rather than only managing symptoms.
We've helped hundreds of patients minimize — or entirely eliminate — their midol-and-miss-work week, and solve the underlying root problem.
At Atma, our Medical Doctors (MDs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) go through intensive training to become certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine. They're certified and ready to get to the root of your issue.