For decades, my doctor had a hard time getting my thyroid levels correct. I had headaches, weight gain, and low energy. Once I started bioidentical T3 and T4 at Pharmacy Solutions, my levels are perfect and my symptoms have improved. My insurance doesn't pay for bioidentical medication, so I pay for this myself. The number of people who are willing to pay out of pocket for bioidentical medications and compounded pharmaceuticals, as opposed to insurance-reimbursed synthetic medications, should tell you something.
As a menopausal woman, I'm disappointed in modern medicine's failure to truly understand hormones and how they all affect one another . My wonderful internal medicine doctor says they don't really teach much about hormones in med school. I went to an endocrinologist, thinking she would know how to optimize and balance all my hormones (thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, adrenals, testosterone, etc.) but no, she just treats thyroid and adrenal disorders and diabetes. She had no training in estrogen or progesterone or testosterone.
As important as hormones are, it's crazy that medical doctors know so little about them or how to keep them in balance.
Medical doctors are also prone to prescribe synthetic thyroid medication and synthetic progestin, both of which have caused women all kinds of problems. This is likely because pharmaceutical companies benefit more from synthetic prescription medicine than what is found medically superior natural hormones.
No one cares about old women, but unbalanced hormones affects men and women of all ages. Lack of testosterone and heart disease. Low progesterone and PMDD and mental health issues. Synthetic birth control and metabolic syndrome and vascular dementia. According to Medscape, 75% of patients feel better on natural dessicated thyroid than synthetic Synthroid, yet most doctors prescribe Synthroid.
If I were younger, I would become an M.D. or D.O., but I would also travel the world to learn everything I could about hormones. Helping people to balance their hormones so that they work together optimally could reduce all kinds of illness and disease.
Healthcare needs to get back to focusing on the patient rather than profit, including releasing the chokehold insurance companies have on doctors and patients, where they control much of healthcare, such as what medications are prescribed, how long a patient can stay in the hospital, how long an elderly patient can receive physical therapy or stay in a nursing facility.
Please do NOT take away the people's choice of bioidentical hormones and compounded medications. Their health would suffer as a result.