Once more, the reply is perhaps. We don’t have strong scientific analysis on this but.
Whereas researching matters associated to girls’s well being, I attain out to Natalie Gukasyan, MD, on the Middle for Psychedelic and Consciousness Analysis at Johns Hopkins College College of Drugs. My intent is to ask her about her work on psilocybin and consuming problems. That’s when she tells me she’s about to publish a case collection on menstrual modifications and psychedelics. She sends me the small print by way of e-mail, and I’m giddy over the truth that researchers are trying into this. In her case collection, coauthored with Sasha Okay. Narayan, MD, Gukasyan interviewed three girls ages 27 to 34 about their cycles after psychedelic use. Two of the ladies used psilocybin, so I’ll concentrate on their stories.
The primary is a 27-year-old with premenstrual dysphoric dysfunction (PMDD) who ingested round 1.5 grams of dried psilocybin mushrooms when she was 26. Her interval got here eight days early. And he or she famous worse-than-usual cramps and temper swings. Later, the girl microdosed psilocybin and famous a profit to functioning within the face of her PMDD signs, although she didn’t expertise symptom enchancment.
One other lady featured within the case collection, now 31, was 28 when she ingested chocolate that contained psilocybin and a element of ayahuasca, one other psychedelic. This lady had skilled amenorrhea (an absence of a interval) for 5 years. The morning after consuming the psychedelics, her interval arrived, and he or she skilled regular cycles for the subsequent three months earlier than noticing some irregularity once more.
A yr later, she was recognized with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Menstrual irregularity is a typical symptom of the situation. She used basic psychedelics once more no less than a dozen instances at average to excessive doses and reported {that a} third of these situations seemingly influenced the early arrival of her interval. After her PCOS analysis, she additionally reported microdosing magic mushrooms and that whereas doing so she skilled menstrual regularity.
Excerpted from The Psilocybin Handbook for Ladies by Jennifer Chesak. Copyright © 2023 Ulysses Press. Reprinted with permission from Ulysses Press. New York, NY. All rights reserved.
