I don’t know where to put this so I am putting it here. Mew, if I am making some mistake , I appologise in advanc.
Guys we have been thinking 5AR inhibitors are affecting only us (males) but I found this from an old book. there is case of lady doctor who used saw palmetto. Note how describe here feelings, especially brain fog. At the end she describes some remedy. I am not recomending it.
This is from a book written in 1897. For full detail and other proving click on archive.org/stream/sawpalmettosaba00halegoog/sawp….
Do you think I should try Silicea? I am very excited but don’t know the dose and strenth. I will highly appreciate any help.
The following proving was made by Dr. Freda M. Langton, of Omaha, Nebraska: it seems incredible that a few doses could set in motion and continue such a disturbance last- ing several months : ** Had I known the torment," writes Dr. Lang- ton, " that was to be exchanged for comfort, I fear that science, so far as my effort in this direction was concerned, would have received scant assistance." The proving was begun with five drops of the tincture four times a day, which in a few days was increased to ten drops. For the first three days no effect was noticed, but after the third day symptoms in abundance rapidly accumulated. " There was no perceptible effect until the third day. I HAD A MOST UNUSUAL, FULL, CONFUSED SENSATION IN THE HEAD, THINKING WAS DIFFICULT, CLEAR OR SUSTAINED THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE. IN READING I WOULD FIND MYSELF GOING OVER AND OVER THE SAME SENTENCE OR PARAGRAPH, NOT BEING ABLE TO THINK OF WHAT I SAW, NOT GRASPING THE MEANING. THE FOLLOWING DAY THERE WAS BELCHING AND ACIDITY OF THE STOMACH ; THIS WAS ALSO UNUSUAL, HAVING HAD PERFECT DIGESTION AND ABIL ITY TO EAT ANYTHING EATABLE WITHOUT DISCOMFORT. THE CONFUSION IN THE HEAD CONTINUED, TO WHICH WAS ADDED SHARP, NEURALGIA PAINS, COMING AND GOING SUDDENLY, LIKE BELLADONNA, NOW HERE, NOW THERE, IN THE SIDES AND TOP AND BACK OF THE HEAD, THROUGH THE EYES AND IN THE TEMPLES. I now increased the dose to ten drops ; I WAS BE COMING VERY MISERABLE, AND IT WAS WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY THAT I ATTENDED TO MY WORK. MY APPE TITE BECAME POOR AND CAPRICIOUS, and one pecu- liarity which made a great impression upon me was the constant desire for milk, an article of diet for which I had a great dislike in my nat ural state of health. At this time, on the fifth day, there came on suddenly, while out making professional visits, the most intense pain through the abdomen. It was more like the cramps of colic than anything else, and I tried to think what I had taken as food that could have caused it, not at first attribating it to the remedy I was taking. (It soon radiated in different directions, down into the legs, up to- ward the stomach, much like Gimici/uga, then to the ovaries, where it settled. I had never had a pain in my life in those much talked of and greatly abused organs. I had never before realized their exact location, but did so now, for the first time, since this pain came on.) I concluded that it was from the medicine, and not from food or drink. I took one more dose that night and determined to continue the next day, but when I awoke with all these discomforts, to which was added painful urination, my courage vanished and it then became science versus sufifering. Supposing that these conditions would gradually subside after stopping the medicine, I endured them with what fortitude I could. THE PAINS IN THE HEAD WERE NO LONGER SHARP AND STITCHING, BUT HAD SUBSIDED INTO THAT DULL, LISTLESS, CONFUSED FEELING IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE AND EQUALLY AS DIFFICULT TO BEAR. THERE WERE CONDITIONS OF MIND SEEMINGLY ANTAGONISTIC, INDIFFERENCE AND IRRITABILITY. INDIFFERENCE AS TO THE WISHES AND WANTS OF OTHERS AND IRRITABILITY, IN PLACE OF SYMPATHY, WHEN THOSE WISHES OR WANTS WERE EXPRESSED. I WISHED TO BE LET ALONE, THE MIND SEEMING TO BE CONCENTRATED ON SELF AND PERSONAL SUFFERING. I had a clear picture of those women who seem unable to get their minds off personalities, who think and brood continually upon their pains and aches, to the exclusion of all other matters ; and, indeed, if they have as many as I had at this time there is no lack of cause for this self- attention. Sympathy did not make me worse, as in Natrum mur, — it made me angry. It was bad enough to suffer without having to answer questions and receive attentions. Like the poor animal who crawls away to die alone, I felt that I, too, would gladly do the same. The head and stomach symptoms gradually disappeared after a few days, but not so with the ovarian and bladder irritation. These remained for days and weeks. There was tenesmus equal to a true cystitis, with, at one or two evacuations, a few drops of blood. (The pains in the ovaries were not acute after four or five days, but. there remained a soreness which was constant, a dull, heavy ache, difficulty in walk- ing or riding. This was much like Bell, again, and it was much more pronounced on the right than on the left side.) (Menstruation was in- creased and painful, especially on the right side.) I tried different, seemingly well-indicated remedies as antidotes.^* A good many remedies were tried to relieve this distressing condition, but of no avail. At the expiration of three months of suffer- ing, I had occasion to make a careful study of Silicea in connection with a case under treat ment. A case which I diagnosed as neuralgic dysmenorrhoea. There was pain and soreness of the ovaries, cephalagia, acid stomach, flatulence, etc., and I was struck with the similarity to the condition produced by the Saw Palmetto. THE THOUGHT CAME THAT POSSIBLY IT MIGHT BE ANTIDOTAL ; I HAD COME TO HAVE BUT ONE DESIRE IN LIFE — TO FIND THE ANTIDOTE, and so stop the action of this drug. I took Silicea two doses per day, with relief in two hours, and cure in three days, and have had no more cystic or ovarian trouble. They vanished like mist before sunshine.