Re: Re: Loved Her!!!

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I also went to see Dr. Gutsmann. I met with her on Tuesday for about an hour - maybe more. I also loved her! My favorite thing about her is how healthy she appears! She is thin and energetic and her skin is smooth and glowing and her hair is thick and natural. I was very impressed. She was also very excited to hear I knew about bio-identical hormones and saliva testing. She said most of her patients don't know anything about them so she spends time explaining. In my case I had recent thyroid labs from December just prior to switching to ERFA. She wanted to wait a few more weeks to get a stable read on how I'm doing on ERFA and will then look at treating thyroid. We did go over my old test results, both saliva and blood, for sex hormones. I had very recent progesterone and estrogen results (from 5 days prior to that appointment) and she felt comfortable using that to prescribe a very low dose progesterone cream based on my prior history and experience using such from Dr. Owens. She gave me a lower dose than Dr. O and sent me to the Family Drug pharmacy to pick it up. I have only used it once because I was at day 26 in my cycle when I saw her, but I liked the progesterone cream. It didn't stink like some I've used and it rubbed in easily. I was also impressed that she took the time to explain I needed to rotate the place on my body where I apply the cream so that the progesterone doesn't build up in the fatty cells. I had read about that and was planning to ask her, but she addressed it first.She is also testing Testosterone and DHEA (blood) based on my prior results. I did not have recent tests for those. I don't have results from those yet. In fact, I didn't end up getting my blood drawn that day because her nurses were unable to do it. That was the only really disappointing part of the visit. I think they tried to go in too slowly and then they couldn't get it. I just about passed out. I have easy veins and was surprised they had trouble. That had never happened before. Other than that, it was great!I am going to send my husband to see her, too! I will continue to let you know how it goes. She seems very competent and caring and I couldn't be happier to feel I finally have a good local dr. for my hormones! (She found it interesting that I heard of her through a yahoo group where we help each other find good doctors.)Kim, did she suggest the Yeast Cleanse pill? I have a spot that flares up on my inner elbow and have a topical cream for it, but I wonder if I should ask her about another approach.Thanks so much for posting about her and your experience there!! I'm excited that you are feeling so well!Grace

I met with her for 1 hour.. She sets an hour appointment.

I happened to have some old labs - so we reviewed those. She gave me a saliva test kit - I took the test on day 21 - which was just last Monday - 1/18/10.

I've been told by her office that my results are back in - but the doctor hasn't reviewed them yet. They will phone me when she has and schedule an appointment to go over the results.

I really really like her. I've been on the compounded Armour she put me on for over a week now and I feel GREAT. I was a little worried because we did reduce my dose, but I now realize how horrible I was feeling on the reformulated Armour.

I have also been taking the Testosterone cream that she prescribed for me - and that has helped out a lot also. She also gave me a sublingual DHEA pill - no side effects - I was getting headaches from the DHEA that I received from Dr. Owens.

I was suffering from a yeast skin thingie, so I started taking a Yeast Cleanse pill from Solaray.

I don't know what is causing it, but I feel better than I have in YEARS.. more energy.. and I have lost about 5 pounds in the past 2 weeks!