When I entered my 50's, I began experiencing many of menopause's negative symptoms. The worst was my inability to think coherently! I felt like I was swimming in a dense fog. In conversation, I would string together sentences that made no sense whatsoever. Just so much "word salad". At the time, I still can't believe how badly I itched! I scratched myself raw. Night sweats soaked my bed. Good fortune sent me to Suzanne Somers' book about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and I gratefully realized I didn't have to continue to be miserable. With my very first cream application my nasty hormonal migraine disappeared. That same day I felt so much more comfortable in my own skin. And the fog lifted and I could think! I run a business and I have to have all my faculties working optimally every day. Now 17 years have passed. I will be 70 years old in December. When I compare myself physically, mentally, and health wise with other ladies my age I give deep thanks for the positive changes bioidentical hormone replacement therapy brought to my life.