HRT saved my life!

05.27.2022

Tennessee Greeneville

“HRT saved my life!”

I have recently retired at the age of 65 and have recently moved to Tennessee with my husband. My career was in nursing as a trauma unit nurse in the emergency room. About 10-12 years ago I started feeling like I couldn't concentrate, organize or remember anything and felt unusually physically exhausted. Sure, the emergency room does that to you, but this was very different. I felt like I was fading away, something really bad was physically wrong with me. I felt like I need to quit my job because I wasn't able to keep up mentally especially since I wasn't sharp enough to do this job anymore. One of the emergency room doctors was telling me about how he had had some hormone testing done. He referred me to a doctor where we worked on my hormones virtually. She did the HRT testing until we uncovered so many hormone imbalances, and realized there were so many reasons for my symptoms, "no wonder you feel like you're dying". With the approval of my doctor, she had troches compounded for me. Within a month of taking this HRT troche, I was brand new. She saved my life. I can't even put into words what taking this hormone replacement has physically and mentally done for me.

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