I went through an extremely difficult time about 3 years ago when I developed severe peri-menopausal symptoms. I went from feeling healthy and strong to falling hard into a downward spiral that I could not control and ended up at the ER. My insomnia had gone on for a few months and became severe. I had joint pain, and jaw pain to the point that I couldn’t even eat. I had heart palpitations and extreme anxiety. I had twitching facial muscles. I could not function. I have a young daughter, and I could not properly care for her. I could not cope with life. A wonderful provider I found helped me find the cause of my problem, which was a decline and imbalance in all my hormones. I started on bio-identical hormones, and my health turned around completely in a matter of months. My system is very sensitive to many things (and I have serious allergies), so it took a bit of tweaking in terms of doses and bases to get to the “just-right” place. The fact that I could adjust the dose and even the topical base to what I needed through compounding, meant I could do exactly what my body needed. Bio-identical hormones truly saved my life.