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> Interesting tidbit at the end of the article about LSD microdosing reportedly fixing twelve female subjects' irregular/painful menstrual cycles. Thanks for c
by taxicabjesus 10y 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 10y agoIt 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 Ergotamine [1] is still used to decrease uterine bleeding after childbirth (but use has largely been replaced by a superior analogue).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