Guest guest Posted February 4, 2003 Report Share Posted February 4, 2003 Sui, based on your two messages, I'm not sure why you want to use natural hormones. Are you referring to birth-control pills or to hormone-replacement therapy, for post-menopausal women? I'm not 100% sure of this, but my impression is that all birth control pills use synthetic hormones -- estrogen and progesterone. For HRT (hormone-replacement therapy), however, there are natural hormones available, not always in pill form however. Vivelle, a soy-based estrogen, is available as a patch that you wear and delivers estrogen through the skin (transdermal delivery). I think there are a few other natural estrogens out there but off-hand I don't remember the names. Premarin, the widest-selling (and most heavily advertised and heavily-promoted to the doctors) estrogen is, strictly speaking, a " natural " estrogen, as it is made from pregnant horse urine (or, as someone once said, it's a natural estrogen if your natural food is grass). I personally would not take it. While it contains the 3 types of estrogen produced by the female body, it also contains 11 estrogens specific to horses, and why someone thought women need horse estrogen is something I don't understand. There is also a natural form of progesterone out in pill form, called Prometrium. This is supposed to have many, many fewer side effects than the synthetic progesterones which are widely used (Provera being the most common of these). You can also get a prescription for compounded natural hormones from your doctor, assuming he or she is up on this, and as followers of this group will not be surprised to learn, many GYNs don't know much about this. Compounded hormones are actually made up to order by special pharmacies, known as compounding pharmacies. If I ever do decide to use hormones, it will be compounded natural hormones. Hope this gives you a start. Leonie -- " Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground " __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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