For 16 years, BHRT has been crucial to my functioning, to my mental health, and to my physical health

07.27.2022

West Virginia Morgantown

“For 16 years, BHRT has been crucial to my functioning, to my mental health, and to my physical health”

In 2006 I was seriously depressed, could hardly get off the couch. Wellbutrin and Zoloft were ineffective. After two weeks on a 50 mg bio-identical compounded progesterone, my depression was gone, because progesterone deficiency was the cause of my depression so replacing it was the only solution. I'm chemically sensitive so I avoid conventional pharmaceuticals and their side effects. I have not had a hypersensitivity reaction to and absolutely zero side effects of bio-identical compounded hormone replacement therapy in the 16 years that I've been taking them. With BHRT, symptoms indicate a need for dosage adjustment only. After menopause, I added estradiol. I am one of the few perimenopausal women I know who sleeps well all the way until morning because I have enough progesterone, don't gain weight because I have enough progesterone, am continent of urine because I have enough estradiol, and have full cognitive functioning, few wrinkles, an physically active life, and good muscle mass and skin thickness because my hormones are balanced as stably as pre-menopause. Hormonal balance is evidence-based as crucial to male and to female health because hormones affect the entire body. PCPs and Gynecologists need to promote bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) for most of what ails women. I seemed to need progesterone for heavy bleeding and for depression as early as my teen and my young adult years.

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