{"id":2868,"date":"2019-03-04T21:57:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T21:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vickygooden.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2021-10-05T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:59:17","slug":"castor-oil-therapy-for-endometriosis-fertility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vickygooden.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/04\/castor-oil-therapy-for-endometriosis-fertility\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor oil therapy for endometriosis (& fertility)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

{Caveat: I\u2019m not a medical or alternative therapy professional. Me doing castor oil therapy does not mean you should do it on a whim. I did research into lots of different things to help my endometriosis and settled on this as one of them, with a particular personal interest of mine on how it is also said to help fertility.}<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In line with Endometriosis Awareness Week 2019, I\u2019ve decided to finally put finger to keyboard and write about how I use castor oil therapy as a form of relief and treatment as I\u2019ve been asked a fair few times about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was three years ago now when I was diagnosed. Almost two years into trying for a baby naturally. My endo was classified as stage 2-3 with the most troublesome being stage 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It had glued one of my ovaries down somewhere it shouldn\u2019t be. There were patches of it all over my reproductive organs. They burnt it off via laparoscopic surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve written before about how I was actually a little shocked to receive the diagnosis. I\u2019d always had horrible periods and excruciating period pain (hello symptoms) but never in my adolescence or young adulthood had I heard the term \u2018endometriosis\u2019. Over many years of me complaining to doctors about my monthly misery, being prescribed countless contraceptive pills that made me MENTAL and being told I probably had IBS, it is now clear that the medical knowledge of this condition was fucking shit. How it continues to be fucking shit is beyond me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was finally told that I might indeed have it by a gynae and fertility consultant based on the answers to some of his questions, well by then I knew what it was. I had googled things like \u2018why am I not getting pregnant\u2019 \u2018weird periods\u2019 \u2018painful periods\u2019 and had had it suggested to me by the pissing internet that perhaps what was going on in my insides was a real life disease that could explain the pain and the no pregnancy. Not one natural pregnancy, still to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, anger and frustration aside, I always try to gain a little control back when I\u2019m told something I don\u2019t want to hear or that ends up ultimately being in someone else\u2019s hands . I *think* it served me well during IVF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve written before about overhauling my diet, household cleaning products and cosmetics as a direct result of the diagnosis – here<\/strong><\/a>. And I\u2019ve breezily mentioned castor oil therapy on more than one occasion but have never gone into detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is castor oil therapy said to help endometriosis?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor oil once heated up using the hot water bottle is said to be able to penetrate through the skin and to the organs underneath. It is said to help shrink cysts, fibroids, patches of endometriosis, soothe pain and reduce inflammation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what about aiding fertility?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castor oil is said to help detoxify the reproductive organs and the liver which has a positive impact on the balancing of hormones. It also helps the function of the lymphatic system. It helps warm the womb and promote important nutrient rich blood flow to the reproductive organs. It is also said to help thicken a thin uterine lining.  Only use castor oil therapy once a period has finished and up until ovulation\/embryo transfer (IVF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here it is. What I do and how I do it. Why<\/em> I do it is because I\u2019m a huge fan of natural therapies, the importance of detoxification and didn\u2019t see any harm in trying. Once I was up and running with it I found it of such comfort. It would chill me out, warm me up and I would envision the oil seeping through into my troubled pelvic area, believing it to be breaking down all the stagnant bloody shit inside me, oiling the organs allowing them to move freely and supporting a more nutritious blood flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I make and use castor oil packs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I use:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n