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Your Story Matters.
 

 

PCOS - Fertility

Are you suffering with breakouts, trouble getting pregnant, weight trouble, anxiety/depression, cravings, irregular cycles, bloating, pelvic pain, abnormal hair growth or loss? Click below to read about Beths story.

Preconception & Prenatal Care

1 in 2 kids today has a chronic health problem.  Are you making plans now to avoid this statistic for your child later? Click below to read about Anna’s story.

 
 
 

Hormone Health

Are you having terrible or irregular cycles, low libido, mood swings, weight gain, brain fog, hot flashes, bloating, trouble sleeping, IBS symptoms, or entering menopause? Click below to read about Liz’s story.

Metabolic Health and Stress

Do you suspect your thyroid is off but told your labs are normal?  Are you taking meds but you still don’t feel right? Click below to read about Marie’s story.

 
 
 

Sexual Wellness

Does your desire for sex seem to be missing? And things don't feel right?  Maybe it's stress, or hormone imbalances . . . Maybe it's past traumas in the nervous system, your pelvic floor, or chronic issues with the vulvar and vaginal tissues. Click below to read about Diana's story.

 

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Beth has had irregular cycles for as long as she can remember. She was put on a birth control pill in high school to regulate them, and has been on it since. She’s thinking about stopping them soon because she wants to have a baby. Recently she has been having worse problems with keeping weight off – the scale seems to climb too easily. She’s also having embarrassing breakouts, bloating, hair changes, and funny twinges in her pelvis. She had some blood work and a pelvic ultrasound with her doctor and was told that she has PCOS, and she would need to start a medication called metformin and possibly another medication to make her ovulate when she is ready to get pregnant. She is worried about how these problems will affect her health down the road, and how they may affect her baby if she is even able to get pregnant with those medications. She is having increasing anxiety over why her body is not functioning normally. It seems like all her friends don’t have to struggle so much. She suspects there has to be a better answer aside from just taking a birth control pill to artificially control her cycle, and then taking more meds when she’s ready to get pregnant. She wants help getting to the root cause of the problem and working to fix it now so she can avoid the diabetes, depression, heart disease problems, and cancer that run in her family.

Liz had a hysterectomy 6 years ago for heavy cycles, so she hasn’t had a period for a while, but she feels that she must be entering menopause now because something is just not right! She’s holding so much more weight around her mid-section and can’t lose it, waking up at 3am and can’t get back to sleep, sweating more than ever, and finds herself extremely annoyed or just plain crying because . . . . she’s not even sure what. Getting through the work day without crashing in the middle of the afternoon is a real challenge, and she feels like her brain can’t focus or get any work done. She went to her doctor for a checkup and had some labs done. Her blood hormone check indicated that she was not in menopause and that her thyroid was normal. Really! No way! Something must be wrong. She talked with her doctor about some things that could help her, and she recommended considering a trial with Prozac to help her mood, and possibly some Adderall to help with focus and attention. Liz is worried about the possible side effects (her sex drive is already in the dumps!), and wonders if this is the beginning of the slippery slope to being on 10 different medications like her mom. She is only 47 years old, and was planning to have another 40+ years of feeling great, traveling, spending time with friends and grandkids on the way, working on that painting hobby she’d always wanted to develop when her kids got older. Well it’s not going to happen feeling like this, and she suspects there has to be a better answer than Prozac and Adderall.

Anna has two adorable little boys – 2 and 5 years old. They are the light of her world (along with her husband!) but she feels like they have too many health issues for their little bodies. Both had terrible colic as infants, then recurrent ear infections as babies and repetitive antibiotic treatments. Her youngest was recently diagnosed with eczema and possibly asthma, and her oldest is having trouble in school, and the teacher wants him evaluated for ADHD. Anna and her husband are ready to have another child, but she is starting to wonder if she can prepare herself better, get her body healthier before and during pregnancy, take some other actions, to decrease the chances of their third child having the same uncomfortable early start in life. When she asked her doctor what to do, he told her these are just typical things that many kids and parents have to deal with. But Anna has read that more and more kids are having these types of problems – why is it increasing so much? She’s read some things on the internet that she wishes she’d known before and during her first two pregnancies, and needs to find a doctor to work with who “gets it” and can help her. One of her friends has thyroid problems and IBS and had a lot of complications in her last pregnancy, and Anna wants to help her find a way to not repeat that, too! She just has to know it’s possible . . . . .

Marie has always been a go getter, always had the energy to do whatever she wanted, burn the midnight oil, drink a little coffee and make it through the day just fine, keeping up with her exercise, her job, her kids – you name it, she could do it! But more and more lately she’s having trouble dragging herself out of bed. Her morning coffee has turned into 4 lattes just to make it through the day. She can’t focus at work and feels ineffective. When she gets home at night, she just wants to melt into the couch, and feels so snappy with her family. She’s just exhausted! She’s always felt she could handle anything that came her way, but now sometimes she just wants to disappear in a “poof!”-could she be getting depressed? Ugh! And not to mention her bowels – she thinks she’s always had the inclination to being constipated, but her doctor told her for some people it’s just normal to have a bowel movement 2-3 times per week. She finally found the time to get in for a checkup, and had some labs done for thyroid and anemia and told they were all normal. But Marie feels anything but normal – she is not herself. She just wishes someone could find something “wrong” with her so she’d know what to do to feel better!

 
Diana was feeling increasingly stressed about her “missing” desire to have sex, or any physical intimacy for that matter. This sense of loss was not just from her husband’s feelings of rejection, but also because she wondered how much longer she’d e

Diana was feeling increasingly stressed about her “missing” desire to have sex, or any physical intimacy for that matter.  This sense of loss was not just from her husband’s feelings of rejection, but also because she wondered how much longer she’d even have a functioning vagina! The regret was intense!

In her long term relationship, as she’s been with her husband John since the end of college, the initial years were great.  But after so many years of stress and lost sleep through school and law practice, then pregnancies, birthing, and breastfeeding and having little ones, then teenagers, where did their intimate physical relationship go?

As this sense of doom encroached, Diana didn’t know where to start or what exactly was going on, but she figured it wasn’t a magical quick fix solution.  Thankfully, she decided to give this area of her life some consistent attention, as she intuitively felt it was important for both her personal health and relationship with John.    

Over some months with consistent and attentive follow-up, Diana chipped away at things and had steady improvement! She learned that her pelvic floor strength was both tight and weak, despite having stayed physically active (including with yoga!) throughout her life.  With pelvic floor PT and directed breathing work, her muscles started to wake up, respond, and even her mild stress incontinence eventually resolved. She learned that her work/life “im”-balances had driven up her insulin and stress hormones and depleted her sex steroids, so she took measures to correct this with an integrative approach.

Diana also realized she had developed depression through years of “pushing through no matter what” and worked with a counselor using CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) techniques to kill her ANTs (automatic negative thoughts). Diana and John also worked with a marriage counselor to better communicate about the strains on their relationship, and recognized that especially for women, these translate directly into decline of desire for sexual intimacy. With this critical hurdle underway, she learned about additional therapeutics to improve tissue and nervous system responsiveness to be able to continue to improve desire for and full enjoyment of sex!  She was happy to be able to talk through multiple topical options and even vaginal PRP, to best choose the tools that most applied to her own body and personal goals.

Months later, not only is sex better, but she has entered new depths in her relationship with John, and her whole body feels healthier.  She knows this process in never “done” and will warrant lifelong attention as her body continues to change, but she finally feels equipped with the physical, hormonal, and emotional maintenance tools that she needs.

 
 

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Interested in a learning a more Integrative approach to your health? Learn more about what we do by watching an introductory video with Dr. Buchert and perusing our website!  

An Integrative approach does not mean that we replace what all of us doctors do in Medicine and the amazing tools that we have and use!  Rather, you will learn how you can utilize a holistic approach that helps you work through the root causes disrupting your health in the first place along with the tools and technology of conventional medicine to enhance your health, progress, and well-being!

 
 

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