Are your estrogen levels holding steady, while your progesterone levels are plummeting? Have your estrogen and testosterone levels been well above normal range, while progesterone has always been low? Or, are you adding extra estrogen unknowingly through what you are taking or maybe a … [Read more...]
Menopause and Doctors
Find a Menopause Specialist. After years of visiting local GP's and coming away extremely frustrated, and constantly being told the only thing they could do for me was to put me onto the HRT and if that didn't work then it would be ant-depressants!! I never ever felt listened too or was ever … [Read more...]
Change from HRT to Yam Cream
In mid November 2012 I wanted to stop using my patches and start using Yam cream. So over a period of 3 months I began to reduce my patches, first I cut my patch in half for 6wks and then 1/4 for 6wks and then I no longer used them. At the same time I began to use the yam cream. I was feeling quite good, … [Read more...]
Tender Breasts
I have in the past suffered with lumpy breast. On discovering the lumps it is then a visit to the doctor who then sends me off to have a mammogram and Ultrasounds who then refers me onto the breast clinic where I have had to have fine needle aspirations. Yuck!!! This always brings with it the worry of … [Read more...]
Is HRT Safe??
When discussing HRT with Dr Margaret Smith some years ago she was quite annoyed at the facts of a report that was being put out to women. These facts caused a great number of women worldwide to become scared and to cease taking HRT. I just came across an article in regards to this showing how evidents … [Read more...]
Great Doctor
I went to my new doctor for my second visit yesterday and how good is she. It's sooo nice to find a doctor who cares about what's happening for you, who understands what you are going through and who takes the time to listen to you and addresses your concerns. I loved how she took time to talk to me … [Read more...]
Just Pull Yourself Together
I have been going through menopause for 12 yrs now, the first 7 yrs were horrendous. I had friends who were going through menopause but not much was said & no one seemed to be suffering like myself???? What's that about!!! I had some friends that seem to breeze through it all & some I'm sure … [Read more...]
Meeting Dr Margaret Smith
In 2007 I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Margaret Smith who helped me immensely. After numerous visits to my local GP (who by the way is a female, a little older than myself & who I thought would understand me), asking for help as I wasn't coping with my menopause, she said "You need to go on … [Read more...]
Lack of choice in hormone therapy
Rachel Browne July 31, 2011 www.smh.com.au/national/health/lack-of-chioce-in-hormone-therapy-20110730-1i5dj.html A NUMBER of leading hormone replacement therapy treatments have been withdrawn from the Australian market over the past two years, prompting concern about a lack of choice for women. Used by … [Read more...]
Letter to Dr Cabot
"This is a letter I sent to Dr cabot 12months ago in shear frustration and desperate for help." Dear Dr Cabot, My name is Linda Butler, I am 50yrs old and I live in a suburb south of Perth Western Australia. In July 2000 I had a Hysterectomy due to having Endometriosis my left ovary was also … [Read more...]
