Thank you. Before posting here I checked the website for an ND near me and found none. That would be my 1st choice for naturopathic advice; thanks for stepping in to fill the void. It's mind boggling that scientific studies were all done on men and no one thought, until recently, to investigate the effects of a woman's monthly hormonal cycle. In my opinion it's outrageous that a doctor who specializes in treating women, who mentions a hormonal connection to a condition (which so far is causing me no problems, but they *are* growing), can propose no treatment other than "the knife."