Re: New to Group

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I am wondering why you are bothering to read messages on this board and Suzanne

Sommers' books if you feel fine without hormones. Your mother's story is tragic,

but if she

had hot flashes and " felt crazy " for 36 years after a hysterectomy, she was

obviously

getting an insufficient dose of estrogen. Saying that estrogen didn't help her

is like saying

" I gave that dog 1/4 cp of food a day, but obviously the food didn't help him

because he

died of starvation. " Every woman needs to take the exact amount of estrogen

(not horse

estrogen like I'm sure your mother was taking) that makes her feel good and

takes away

her symptoms--no more and no less. If she feels she doesn't need estrogen or

want

estrogen, then that is her choice, and nobody is going to force her into it. But

some of us

desperately need our estrogen in order to keep from suffering horrendous

symptoms, not

because we are trying to pretend we are 20 again.

>

> I recently read the posts on this website for the past year. I'm 54 and

> post menopausal, I take no hormones, no type of HRT. My mother took Estrogen

> for 36 years, she had a hysterectomy at 39, felt crazy, started on Librium

and

> graduated to Valium. To make a very long story short, she ended up in drug

> rehab 5 times starting at the age of 72. I had watched my mother have hot

> flashes for 36 years, I knew the Estrogen wasn't helping her much! My mother

> recently had hip replacement, her bones are in horrible shape, they had to

put

> metal mesh around the bones to hold them. The estrogen obviously didn't do

> much for her bones.

>

> I read Dr. Lee's book, thought Progesterone was something for me to

> try, can't say it did much, so gave it up. I had horrible periods, went to

the

> Health Food store, found a knowledgeable woman in the store that suggested

> something called Menopautonic, a liquid you took sublingually, it tasted

awful

> but after a 45 day period I was willing....period stopped after another day

> and I was pretty happy about that. That was about 4 years ago, never had

> another period and never took anything else.

>

> I read Suzanne Somer's book, watched her on HSN have hot flashes and

> listened to her talk about her bioidenticals. Suzanne Somer's a very

attractive

> woman but I watched her lips changing and her face wasn't moving as much as

it

> did before, I knew she had to be using some type of filler in her face and

> was very disappointed in her talking about her bioidenticals making her skin

> look so smooth and her face exercise machine as her favorite beauty item.

Then

> I read the letter from the doctors interviewed in her books about the T.S.

> Wiley Protocol. Honestly I don't know anything about T.S. Wiley, never had

> heard of her and her protocol.

>

> I don't want to be 20 again, I like being 54. I feel really good, I'm

> thinner than I was in my 40's and my skin looks better than when I was 20, I

had

> acne in my 20's, 30's and 40's. Yes, I had a inner thermostat that had no TOP,

> I got really hot and the only way I could cool off was stop doing anything

> and it would come down, I had a little demon that lived inside me that could

> make me lose it! I had mood swings but that has all gone away, I think I'm

on

> the other side of the " change of life " . One day soy is good, the next day it

> isn't....it was too scary for me to try anything so I choose nothing and yes

> for a couple of years I was challenged off and on. I can't imagine that my

> body will sing if I take Bioidenticals that take me back to my 20's...that

> doesn't sound natural to me.

>

> So another point of view, taking nothing worked for me. I hope all of you

> find what works best for you. Good Luck!

>