Hi , I am in the US, in the state of Minnesota. You are right it is a huge struggle, and any comments are welcome to me!!! Just so glad that I am not alone in this struggle.
Thank you! I appreciate your impute.
Thank you for your imput, I am going to give it a try, and see if things change.
thank you for responding!
I quite agree with Jaynee on black cohosh!
One thing I have learned about "trochs" or lozenges is that the hormone is better absorbed due to delivery, hormone is absored slowly into blood stream, different delivery to creams or other oral method...I read about this, has not occured to me before now.
So I would say that your "trochs" may help you better, small uptake by liver more of hormone slowly released into blood stream.over a period of time..this sounds like the perfect way to take hormones..I am guessing...?
I think in US things slightly more advanced than here...or maybe we just have to pay more...but the idea of saliva testing rather than a blood testing seems to be the more sensible thing..
I think in London we'd pay through the nose..ie a thousand or so..last time I looked Dr Studd and his peers were all charging quite a bit, and what concerns me is the one glove fits all approach...
good luck with your meds, sounds like your on the right track!
weary of Wiltshire!
Also just want to say that I am going for some adrenal tests nest week all thankfully on NHS - my own muddled thinking tells me that if the adrenals are stressed than possibly nothing will help until adrenal problem is addressed..just thought I'd mention this one ....still looking into this..
Hi GG, whereabouts are you? UK, EU, US? Bioidenticals can be prescribe by standard doctors and they exist in pharmaceutical brand names too. So you have them compound - for this you'll have to go a private consultant and you have the prescription type. typically estrogen = estradiol patches or rub-on gels (several brands) ; progesterone = progesterone capsules in the UK= Utrogestan; EU = same + Progeffik, in the US = Prometrium. If you go through the posts here you'll find lots of info on it. If you wish to know what's bioidentical pharma and what's not in google "Harvard bioidentical hormones" and you'll find a list.
i sure appreciate your help, and thank you!!!! I will be starting them this evening, and will let you know if something changes. Hopefully the rocking boat fun will go.
Let me know what you find out, I have been reading on them also, and have wondered if that was not the problem. I feel like my body is exhausted, and at the end.
Thank you Teresa! I will start using a troche approach, as that is what is offered where I live. I near a small town in north central Minnesota. I will google that site, and check it out. Thanks again.