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Interesting tidbit at the end of the article about LSD microdosing reportedly fixing twelve female subjects' irregular/painful menstrual cycles.

taxicabjesus 9y ago
> Interesting tidbit at the end of the article about LSD microdosing reportedly fixing twelve female subjects' irregular/painful menstrual cycles. Thanks for commenting this - I would've skipped the article otherwise. Conventional medicine doesn't have any good options for women with such problems. Two of my passengers going take home from the emergency room were monthly sufferers of dysmenorrhea. One was "economically stressed", the other was on drugs (edit: prescriptions) that never allowed her cycles to normalize themselves. Edit2: another was made suicidal with Depo-Provera... I've started drafting 'the predicaments of doctors and patients', where I have something to say about the medical industry. Maybe I'd be able to finish it if I got some microdose LSD, lol. Fadiman reads an email from a British art historian in her 20s, long afflicted with painful, irregular menstruation. “‘I only microdosed that one month. My periods are regular. You have changed my life. Thank you.’ I’ve been in psychedelic research a long, long time, and no one’s ever considered or mentioned or thought about the possibility that psychedelics had anything do with menstrual periods, particularly difficult ones. However, now that that bit of search has happened, we started looking for it.” Twelve women, he says, have reported improved menstruation after microdosing.
- castle-bravo 9y ago
  It makes sense in a roundabout way. LSD was first synthesized as part of a study of ergotamine analogues. Ergotamine [1] is still used to decrease uterine bleeding after childbirth (but use has largely been replaced by a superior analogue). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotamine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotamine
jlg23 9y ago
Searching for a relief from menstrual pain was what made Albert Hofmann research Secale cornutum and accidentally discovering LSD in the process (or how he put it "being discovered by LSD").

taxicabjesus 9y ago

> Interesting tidbit at the end of the article about LSD microdosing reportedly fixing twelve female subjects' irregular/painful menstrual cycles. Thanks for commenting this - I would've skipped the article otherwise. Conventional medicine doesn't have any good options for women with such problems. Two of my passengers going take home from the emergency room were monthly sufferers of dysmenorrhea. One was "economically stressed", the other was on drugs (edit: prescriptions) that never allowed her cycles to normalize themselves. Edit2: another was made suicidal with Depo-Provera... I've started drafting 'the predicaments of doctors and patients', where I have something to say about the medical industry. Maybe I'd be able to finish it if I got some microdose LSD, lol. Fadiman reads an email from a British art historian in her 20s, long afflicted with painful, irregular menstruation. “‘I only microdosed that one month. My periods are regular. You have changed my life. Thank you.’ I’ve been in psychedelic research a long, long time, and no one’s ever considered or mentioned or thought about the possibility that psychedelics had anything do with menstrual periods, particularly difficult ones. However, now that that bit of search has happened, we started looking for it.” Twelve women, he says, have reported improved menstruation after microdosing.

castle-bravo 9y ago
It makes sense in a roundabout way. LSD was first synthesized as part of a study of ergotamine analogues. Ergotamine [1] is still used to decrease uterine bleeding after childbirth (but use has largely been replaced by a superior analogue). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotamine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotamine

jlg23 9y ago

Searching for a relief from menstrual pain was what made Albert Hofmann research Secale cornutum and accidentally discovering LSD in the process (or how he put it "being discovered by LSD").