I've been working for three months with a reputable women's clinic in Ohio to get onto BHRT. I reside in Washington state, 3000 miles away. I completed the expensive state of the art testing offered by this clinic back in early Jan. 2018. Had to wait 2 weeks for results. 2 additional weeks for doctors to review test results and formulate a prescription based on my specific lab results. Ohio is restricted from sending compounded prescriptions over state lines so they sent the specific recommendations to a local compounding pharmacy in my area to manufacture my prescription. The local pharmacist received the recommendations but my gyn had to give final approval before they could be compounded. The local pharmacist sent over the prescription for approval and 3 days later the gyn left for a week's vacation without signing off on my BHRT prescription -The very day I was supposed to pick up my prescription. I went into the gyns clinic and raised hell. A fat nurse had the audacity to tell me that I would have to just take anti anxiety medication until the gyn returned from his vacation! My husband was livid! He demanded that they find a doctor to sign off on the prescription THAT DAY! The other gyn on staff at this office was notified and she signed off on the prescription. We were able to pick it up later that afternoon. We drove to the compounding pharmacy to pick up the BHRT and was once again facing incompetence. I was supposed to receive transvaginal BHRT as that is what was recommended by the doctors in Ohio, but the local compounding pharmacist decided to switch to transdermal and also tweaked the formula. I received the prescription and was unaware it had been altered from the original recommended formula. I began using the transdermal cream as directed and by the evening of the second day I began to itch all over my body. I called the pharmacy and found out the formula was not as per the recommended formula. I then called the clinic in Ohio and talked with the gal who has been working with me from the beginning. She said it is highly likely something in the transdermal cream that I am reacting to and that's exactly why they formulate BHRT transvaginally to avoid this potential problem. The clinic in Ohio has been treating women and men with BHRT for over 20 years and have perfected the treatment. I should have just flown to frigging Ohio and picked up the correct recommended prescription directly from them. Now, today, Monday, I have to contact the local compounding pharmacist who made my prescription wrong and discuss how we are going to rectify this situation. I am so done. So done. I have been suffering debilitating symptoms for two years now, literally on the couch or in bed most of the time, and finally get to the day where I can possibly begin to get relief and the whole thing blows up in my face. I am beyond p****d off. Two weeks ago I went in for an ultrasound to see what this abdominal mass is that's been sore for the last year and a half. Turns out it's my right kidney! My right kidney dislodged somehow and fell down and sits in my lower abdomen. I am just tired of being a slave to this degrading body.
Sorry Leslie, sounds like a complete nightmare. I can't believe you don't have any good hormone docs where you live, I always think the west coast is more advanced than the rest of the country for natural remedies.
What happens when your kidney dislodges? Is it still working? This is a new one that I've never heard.
Feel sorry for feeling so bad! I think that you can trust anymore the clinic. Maybe it’s a good idea to find a more trustworthy and caring gyn and maybe to try conventional hrt with standard doses?