Hormones

katie1859 · ‎06-25-2022

Ok ladies, I need or would love feedback. Sharing. What are you experiences in your over 55 ages with hormones. Taking hormones.

Testosterone

Progesterone

Either cream, pellets, or tablets.

As I go in for my yearly physical I'm asking bc I'm requesting my hormones levels be tested.

I know I'm not alone in this. I'm wanting optimal health and I know my hormones are key.

Ainhisg · ‎03-09-2010

I take oral HRT and use vaginal estrogen, too. Watch several of the Menopause Taylor (Dr. Barbara Taylor, MD) videos on YouTube for a wealth of information including benefits, when you should start it, and so forth. There are a LOT of misconceptions and misinformation out there. Even if not having symptoms, there are many benefits to taking it according to my own doctor.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

I had breast cancer in my 30's. No way would I ever take hormones. I would not take the risk.

curlygirl13 · ‎07-31-2010

OK, I have to tell you my experience. I went into full-blown menopause 2 years ago. Decided to do HRT and did it compounded with bio-identical hormones. Fast forward, I woke up in March 2023 one morning bleeding like I was hemorrhaging. It turns out all the hormones created so many polyps and cysts in my uterus and my uterine lining I had to have surgery. My doctor made me stop everything. Now my GYN is not the doctor who was managing or prescribing my hormones. I went to a hormone specialist for that. It was a nightmare. I'm off everything now and it's been hard but mine is a cautionary tale. I was very sick. Everyone is different but be careful. I was using progesterone and estrogen.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

I am 71, never took any hormones, whether oral or creams and never will, just my 2 cents.

msgb · ‎08-30-2010

I am on bio identical progesterone in the brand name pill form. I have been on for over 20 yrs. I am not on estrogen at all.
I am a different case as I developed a DVT and was on blood thinners for almost 3 yrs. I hemorrhaged and had to have some blood transfusions. It turns out I am allergic to synthetic everything and I have something where I do not process vitamin B properly.

Hence the blood clot. The blood clot never went away and even now I have some issue. I will not go on anything synthetic--even vitamins as a result.

The bio identical progesterone helps with all sorts of issues. I look into everything before I fill a prescription and I did a boat load of homework looking into this hormone.

I tried going off and found out that my B/P went up.
With the discussion of my doctor I am on it for some time more and it is fine with me.

You might want to discuss the side effects of synthetic and the bio identical hormones and also the generic vs the brand name. (I have to be on the brand name as I found out that I was allergic to something in the generic).

Look into all you can prior to your decision.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@katie1859 I'm 75 so it's been some decades for me. When I hit menopause my doctor put me on HRT. I felt so crappy after 2 months (the info was coming out about the ill effects of this) that I called her and told her I was stopping them as of that day.

I didn't like her attitude so switched to another doctor in that practice. He was completely supporitve of my decision.

There's NO way I'd ever go along with HRT therapy for myself.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

My gynecologist put me on an estrogen patch and progesterone pills. Can't take the estrogen without the progesterone. For whatever reason, I was finally able to sleep again. Not sure if it's because I wasn't having the hot flashes/night sweats or if there was some other benefit such that the combo helped me to sleep. I highly value my sleep.

Her rule was that I had to be off of them by 65 though, so I started weaning off of them earlier this year and was off of them by April. She did tell me I would hate her at first, and she was right. Not sure I ever stopped hating her since tne night sweats came back with a vengence. I was having to get up at night and change PJ's, AND I was having trouble sleeping.

At my last visit she came in with this brand new wonder drug Veozah. It's different in that it acts on the hypothalamus which is the organ that controls our body temps. I got to try that out for a couple of weeks. Sadly, I couldn't stay on it since it's uber expensive and the manufacturer wouldn't let me participate in their price-cutting program because I'm now on Medicare. So, now I'm on a very small dose of Gabapentin (Neurontin) which keeps the night sweats at bay but does nothing for my sleep issues.

pdlinda · ‎10-23-2011

@Shelbelle You speak FOR ME! I will not take any hormones regardless of type.

I have a rectocele prolapse that I "manage" and go for pelvic floor PT to try and maintain it as it is now. The urogynocologist I consulted and my Pelvic floor PT provider mentioned hormones to me but it was a short conversation. It was never mentioned again.