“My loss of hormones after menopause and then retirement was ...”
My loss of hormones after menopause and then retirement was devastating: I lost interest in most activities, experienced debilitating fatigue and spent hours on the couch every day, with no desire to do anything. I was neither dead nor alive: I was just taking up space. It was my "zombie year" in 2014. I finally found a doctor who didn't want me to be merely healthy, she wanted me to be well. A hormone panel showed I basically had no hormones.
Once I started on estrogen and testosterone creams, with oral progesterone, it was AMAZING. I became an alive human person.... a female one too. I was motivated to eat better and I began to walk daily. I walked 1800 miles in 15 months and 69 pounds fell off. I felt so much better, but with weight loss at age 61, came a lot of sagging. I didn't recognize the body I saw in the mirror, and that reflection didn't fit my mental body image. Some judicious plastic surgery (breast, arm face and neck lifts) fixed that. In July 2017 I began strength training at a gym and still workout five days a week. I have gained muscle and bone mass and look and feel fantastic. I have energy to spare after lifting pushing pulling pressing or raising 20,000 pounds. At age 64, I became able to do push-ups and my last goal... Pull-ups... Is nearly reached. My recent DEXA scan shows spine bone density on the 97 percentile for a 21 year old woman. I am 66!
I am a retired allopathic MD (neurosurgeon) and was highly skeptical of BHT when I read about it. I was reading the wrong things, essentially lies promoted by Big Pharma and the health care industry.
Admittedly, there are providers trying to make a fast buck promoting and overselling this treatment as an anti-aging program. My internist does not profit by selling me the products she prescribes nor dies she do saliva testing.
It is my personal and medical opinion that BHT is a valid and valuable treatment for age related hormone deficiency. As a human being, I want to put human hormones in my body, not synthetic analogs or hormones synthesized from horse urine. It took a year for my prescriber and me to arrive at the right dosage for me, based on clinical results and lab tests. Only a custom compounded preparation offers this possibility which a one-dose-fits-most drug does not offer.
Compounding pharmacies are an OPTION that health care providers and patients need.
BHT has enhanced my life, possibly even saved it. The option to obtain this medication thru reputable regulated compounding pharmacies needs to continue as this kind of therapy is simply not available from large commercial pharmacies or giant pharmaceutical companies.
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