Please don't take our bioidentical hormones away from us.

02.17.2022

Alabama Madison

“Please don't take our bioidentical hormones away from us.”

At 52 years old I had never really been sick a day in my life. One morning I was dizzy, started having ringing in my ears, and by nightfall was deaf in my right ear. Suddenly I found myself crying all the time. My back hurt, my legs were restless when I laid down and my anxiety was out the roof. I couldn't sleep a wink and I couldn't eat. I lost weight from 140 lbs, which is not that much for me as I am 5' 9", down to 115 lbs. I felt like I was dying. If they had not given me Ativan at the ER, to help me sleep, I might have died.

My OBGYN gave me estrogen, but no progesterone because I'd had my uterus removed. Nothing really helped but the Ativan. I was horrified I would become addicted and only took about half what was prescribed.

A doctor prescribed an SSRI and I was finally able to get on that and quit worrying about addiction. Although the SSRI helped and I was able after a year to go back to work somewhere, I was still not myself.

I had always been a health food fan and I went to this Naturopath that was also an MD to find out natural means that might help me. While I was there, I asked him if he could write me a refill for my estrogen. He said he could and he could also give me something that didn't cause heart attack, cancer, and stroke and could add progesterone to it, which could make it more calming. I was scared to death to do anything that might upset the applecart, but I did it and in one month I was off the SSRI I had been on for three years, which, by the way, was new and had caused liver problems and even death to one woman.

I have recommended the bioidentical hormones to many women that were going through similar circumstances and all have been helped.

Please don't take our bioidentical hormones away from us. Which is better, to spend the rest of my life on SSRIs, which only barely made me functional, or something natural that makes me feel like my old self again and has no side effects?

Thank you for your time.

Sheila Turney

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