I agree with Ann that Wheat is 100% bad for endometriosis! The biggest change by far that I've noticed since going wheat and gluten-free has been with my periods. I don't know if this will work for everyone, or if you have to be gluten-intolerant. But it's taken less than three months for me to see a big difference.

I had painful and rather heavy periods as a teen, and by the time I was 19 I started missing periods for years at a time. In recent years they have been very, very heavy and painful. So much so that it actually frightened me, and I'm not easily frightened after dealing with so many health crises for decades. (Ya'll probably know what I mean. You feel like you're living at death's doorstep much of the time as it is).

I started using progesterone cream about six years ago, which helped quite a bit. The last few years things started getting out of hand, though. When I'd mention to my doctor how heavy my periods were getting he'd just say "that's your PCOS." I'd tried birth control pills in the past, but couldn't tolerate them at all. I'd get severe migraines within days of starting.

Just over a month after going gluten-free my period was much easier. Only one day with a lot of pain (and I think that was because I got overwrought about something). My last period I didn't even have enough pain to need an ibuprofen, when earlier this year I was having to take Vicodin a few days in a row, multiple times a day, just to be able to bear the worst of it! And I try to be stingy with painkillers because I don't want to get addicted.

Also my periods were getting longer and longer, 10 days to 2 weeks. The last one lasted only a week though, and was not even half as heavy as before. The change is so dramatic I half expect it not to last! Especially since I'm sure my hormonal problems are a result of mercury poisoning, both which I've had for decades. I feel extremely lucky that I was able to find a solution that helps as much as it does before I even get my amalgams out (which may play havoc with things all over again, who knows?) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />