rozzy...thanks to totaldisPAIR. She told me about a book she read, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty, by Dr. John Lee. He also wrote a book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone, which I have read. They're both about $11.00, plus postage, at Amazon.com. Well worth it.
Through his book, I have come to believe many "symptoms" are hormone balance related!! Like hair loss, loss of libido, fibrocystic breasts, poor sleep, headaches, irritability, allergies, etc., etc. These are symptoms of estrogen-dominance.
He goes on to say, that we take synthetic BCP and HRT, eat meat laced with hormones, among other things. Our bodies cannot
fully recognize and utilize these synthetics. It eventually throws our bodies out of whack, hormonely. Women are losing their hair earlier, girls (and boys) are developing earlier, women experience more infertility, etc.
He talks about hormone imbalance and cancer, heart disease. bone loss, pelvic disease.
It justs makes sense, we put these chemicals into our bodies and do we REALLY know the side effects. For that matter, does the medical profession really know the effects of synthetic hormones. Don't get me wrong, they were all we had for years. But the "establishment" medicos don't seem to want to hear "natural hormones".. Could the drug companies be "in" on this??!?? 8O Also, at the risk of sounding sexist, after all, in the early years, most of the researchers were men ormale-dominated.
My derm. buys this idea, completely. Of course, it helps she is menopausal and into some alternative care. After my disasterous endo visit, my derm gave me a scrip for 100mg. Prometrium.. We'll see, its only been 5 days.
Back to the disaster at the endo: she doesn't "do" female hormones???!?! She did some other adrenal, thyroid, diabetes screens. We'll see what she says. She did say, I may have more than one thing going on, hormonally. She thinks my cortisol levels are off, and if true, may prescibe oral spironolactone. She said she has women patients who have had luck with it.
She did refer me to women gyns, and I have an appt with one on August 7. I'll bet she also validates this imbalance stuff.
Hell, all over the site you hear the men (and women) talking about hormone RATIOS! We all can't be wrong. :rockon:
I'm on the natural hormone bandwagon, and I'll be sure to post
any results, good or bad. I'm confident they will be good.
There really is no baldness in my family, esp. for my age (50). And, this all started happening about 4-6 months
AFTER is started synthetic HRT, femhrt.
I'm sorry to go on so, but I get on a roll.
By the way, Dr. Lee has a webstie,
http://www.johnleemd.com/
Keep in touch...and I'll do the same.
