Re: Off Armour and Just Exhausted and feeling terrible

[Guest guest]

, that five year limit is based on studies using synthetic hormones, not bio-identicals. Tell your doctor that he can't use some umbrella "logic" to include BHRT into that five-year limit. I've been on them now for six years, and you'd have to kill me to stop me from using them. Why should I stop using hormones that are the same as the ones my body's been familiar with all my life? I know of others who've gone off BHRT, and for most of them all the symptoms of menopause come back in force. It's like going through menopause all over again. Virginia >>He says that we should only be on hormones, bioidentical or otherwise, for a total of 5 years and I'm on them for 3 years already. So what to do , what to do? >>

[Guest guest]

Hear, hear!!

Gael

I really don't care what they say about five years max on hormones. Of course, to cover their behinds, they will say that. I am healthier on estradiol than off it. There are certainly considerations beyond "hot flashes." Start with bone density as a prime consideration.

Val

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[Guest guest]

Should I have asked him to test my iodine levels? My Vit D level was

seriously deficient.

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> A lot of these " cancers " are due to so many people being " iodine

> deficient " . Seriously.

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> Sam

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[Guest guest]

Val - I haven't taken ANY P!!!! How could I be overdosed on it? At

most, I take 1.25 mg of sublingual P every 10 days but that is it.

And the P in my blood test showed up as very low.

My estradiol is 34. Big whoop. And that was while on Biest. All

these doctors want to give us estriol but do THEY consider how it

metabolizes? THey don't want to hear it from a lay person! Why do

they think all women need all of this progesterone ? We are all

different levels.

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> > What is your experience with vaginal P?

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[Guest guest]

As I recall, you have bleeding issues?

With an estradiol of 34, it is no wonder P makes you crazy.

No telling what the biest does to you, either. I know, for me, it gave me no estradiol

and I bled the whole five months.

You are going to have to find what works for you instead of depending

on doctors. I use my doc for

ultrasounds and Pap smears. As you

know from the literature, there is no firm agreement about hormone use.

Val

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Val - I haven't taken ANY P!!!! How could I be overdosed on it?

At

most, I take 1.25 mg of sublingual P every 10 days but that is it.

And the P in my blood test showed up as very low.

My estradiol is 34. Big whoop. And that was while on Biest. All

these doctors want to give us estriol but do THEY consider how it

metabolizes? THey don't want to hear it from a lay person! Why do

they think all women need all of this progesterone ? We are all

different levels.

[Guest guest]

You can do an iodine loading test yourself:

http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/iodineindex.html

http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/loading.html

Sam

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> Should I have asked him to test my iodine levels? My Vit D level was

> seriously deficient.

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>> A lot of these " cancers " are due to so many people being " iodine

>> deficient " . Seriously.

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>> Sam

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[Guest guest]

Yes I know there is no firm agreement on this issue which is why I

can't get a damned doctor to prescribe the RIGHT thing!!

I wonder if there are any New Yorkers on this list who could give me

a willing doctor. What kills me is that this guy doesn't think

estradiol of 34 is so bad for someone MY age. Isn't that nice of

him?

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> As I recall, you have bleeding issues?

>

> With an estradiol of 34, it is no wonder P makes you crazy.

>

> No telling what the biest does to you, either. I know, for me, it

gave me

> no estradiol and I bled the whole five months.

>

> You are going to have to find what works for you instead of

depending on

> doctors. I use my doc for ultrasounds and Pap smears. As you know

from the

> literature, there is no firm agreement about hormone use.

>

> Val

>

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[Guest guest]

thanks sam

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> >> A lot of these " cancers " are due to so many people being " iodine

> >> deficient " . Seriously.

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> >> Sam

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