Carlina carlina.duggan@gmail.com Colorado Northglenn 0 0 0 0
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04.13.2021
Colorado Northglenn

“cBHT keeps me functioning. Without it, I would not be able t...”

cBHT keeps me functioning. Without it, I would not be able to have a meaningful life. I first started on it about 10 years ago. I had my uterus removed at the age of 32 in 1988 (due to prolapse), so I hadn't had a menstrual cycle in a long time. About 13 years ago, I started having the hot flashes and the usual menopausal symptoms. Those weren't too bad, except for one. I had for many years the occasional ocular migraine. I would have it for a period of 30 minutes or so. It came along with vision impairment and disorientation, and then it would go away. I had also had a history of "sinus" headaches and motion sickness, which I now know was also migraine, but I had treated them with OTC medications for those diseases. When the menopausal symptoms started up, though, I got a blinding headache that would NOT GO AWAY. It was so bad I couldn't get out of bed. It lasted for three weeks. I couldn't function at all, and I had to function because I was the sole breadwinner for my household. At that time, I had a disabled daughter and a partly disabled husband at home. It took several months of trial and error, dietary experimentation, and testing several different drugs for the acute phase, but I finally got settled on a protocol that keeps me fully functional and living a fulfilled life. If I mess with any of it, I've got trouble. If I mess with the cBHT part of it, I've got REAL trouble and that happens within a day or two. cBHT is bioidentical, so I don't have to worry about the long-term effects of a strange chemical in my system. Which, since I am also very sensitive to chemicals and artifical substances, including flavors, dyes, and other man-made strangenesses that send me into fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, is something that concerns me a lot. The power of a compounding pharmacist to help me is something for which I am deeply grateful. I am also deeply grateful that I have had now five succeeding physicians who were willing to put their trust in her to provide me with this substance that has provided me with such relief. The physicians have departed to other pursuits and I, myself, have moved to a separate town. But the pharmacist is my constant link to the medicine that I need.
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