What I’m Doing This Year to Heal My Hormones (High FSH and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency)
So it’s a brand new year. A clean slate. A fresh runway to chase your dreams and soar. If you’ve landed here on this blog post, you’re probably hoping that this year will be one of healing for your hormones, fertility, and more. Living without a period is a scary place to be—I understand completely! In fact, I’m still there.
Current goals for hormone healing and fertility
What are your wellness goals for this year? What big questions surrounding your hormones and health will you pursue answers for? What positive, lasting changes do you want to see?
Here’s a transparent look at what I’m hoping to heal and uncover for my own tricky case of “premature ovarian insufficiency or failure” (or to put it more accurately, “high follicle-stimulating hormone”).
Important side-note: if you’re also dealing with POI or mysteriously high FSH, your ovaries are likely just hibernating; please don’t worry about whether or not you still have eggs because the body does not simply flush them away.
So, right here, right now, take a few calming deep breaths to alleviate some of those heavy worries. Don’t listen to the search engine results on this one, trust me.
MAIN FERTILITY GOALS:
to completely eliminate my hot flashes within 3 months
to learn WHY my FSH is high
to lower my FSH to a normal range within 6 months
to get my period back within 6 months
to become pregnant (acknowledging God’s timing here)
Writing that last goal is scary—especially to put it out into the world in a blog post, but I’m going for it! I’m taking back the reins of my health and my life! At the same time, there’s a huge element of surrender in this goal, too, because I know that God is sovereign over my life. But I also know that God designed me to have a healthy body. So basically, I’m finding the balance between “letting go” and surrendering to Him all while doing everything I can to restore my body to how He created it to work. Trusting God with the rest!
So those are my main goals. In order to make those goals happen, there are a bunch of small steps I’ll be working on each day to support my fertility. I’ll share those in my next blog post.
What I’m doing in 2024 to heal my hormones
I’m sure I won’t be perfect about doing all of these things, but this is my current list of things to try. It definitely feels like a lot, but I’m hoping to land on something that shifts some gears back into place.
ACTION STEPS FOR Q1 OF THIS YEAR
My fertility action steps for the first quarter of this year include…
continue to eat at least 2,500 calories a day
cook more meals
increase protein even more
reduce processed sugar by a lot
add more veggies to my day, including raw ones
drink 1/2 cup of cranberry juice throughout the day
drinking my daily water goal
stay consistent with my supplements and electrolytes
fertility massage throughout the week
castor oil packs
start stretching daily
30-minute walk every morning with light jogging to stimulate lymphatic system
spend time outside by the ocean and barefoot on the ground
spend at least 2 hours on things that bring me joy each day
read, research, journal
spend more time reading my Bible
stay motivated and encouraged
and a few other things that I’ll write about soon
Main goals for optimum hormone healing during the next 90 days
Since I have SO many things on my fertility to-do list, I also want to create a smaller, more focused checklist of the most important tasks. When I’m trying a bunch of different things, it’s easy to miss a few here and there if I get distracted or overwhelmed. So I’m choosing a select few to focus on daily. These are the goals I think are most important for me to reverse my high FSH and wake up my sleepy ovaries.
A sweet friend who is also working through similar fertility issues reminded me last week that it can take 3 consistent months to see improvement from a supplement, and that it takes 21 days to form a new habit, so I’m setting a few specific sprint goals with items to check off every single day. These will be my priorities for the next 90 days.
KEY 90-DAY SPRINT GOALS
90 days of high-protein meals
90 days without missing a supplement
90 days of zero constipation (thanks to a few key supplements)
90 days of grounding outside (standing outside barefoot to ground my body to the earth)
90 days of stretching / simple mat exercises
3 months of fertility massage / castor oil packs routine (might not be every single day)
90 days of daily Bible reading and journaling time
There are a hundred little things I’m incorporating into my fertility restoration plan, but if I commit to doing these tasks without skipping any days, I know I’ll stay on the right track and make progress towards major hormone healing.
Of course, if I miss a day, it’s not the end of the world, but it creates a fun challenge around eating the best foods for my body, taking all of my supplements, keeping my detox pathways moving, grounding, stretching, and reading my Bible every day. I’m also creating a castor oil pack and fertility massage routine to do throughout the week. I know these will be key to reestablishing my hormone connections.
I have a few more tests that I’m waiting for, so I’m sure I’ll have several more things to add to my goal lists later this month.
I plan to talk about what I’ve healed so far in another blog post soon.
CHIME IN & SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS IN THE COMMENTS
What are your fertility and wellness goals for this year? What steps are you currently taking to learn about your hormones?
