...regarding those of us who are Sans Ovarios...

[Guest guest]

Hello, rhythmicliving women -

....Ruby here, hailing from the Deeeep South...Birmingham, Alabama. A

pretty nice place to live on the whole, but not one crawling with

Practitioners of Ye Alternative Medicine, hm.

Well, we [try to] bloom where we are planted, I reckon.

I have read a good deal. I have read Vliet (my personal fave) and

Lee and Wiley [and Somers] and *quite* a few others, with extreme

interest and attention.

I am not-quite-fifty ( " not QUITE, dammit!! " ) and had the TAH

( " Fibroids...MAJOR Fibroids...talkin' not-one-but-TWO UAEs...uterine

artery embolizations...to No Particular Avail " ) a little over a year

ago. Ovaries too glommed-on to the General Mess to save.

Currently I take 2mg of oral bio-identical estradiol (Estrofem) per

day. (Yes, I am aware Th' Patch is available in bioidentical and is

better for one's liver, what with avoiding the 'first pass' and its

by-products and all. And that it provides a more uniform distribution

throughout the 24-hours. FWIW, I take my 2mg/day in two divided

doses. But I myself could not BEAR the patch...the grungyness and the

redness, ok.) I have been taking this amount of E for 'about' 14

months year. I have not been *cycling* E, but would be happy to be

advised...

Also I use a *very* moderate amount of DHT gel (Andractim, which I

buy from online pharmacy) since March, and I am just *extremely*

happy with it...no facial hair growth, no 'roid rage, and it has

*def* improved my energy level and libido. (Although my libido is,

shall we say, Still Not What Once It WAS, hmm. It is not what it Was

*Immediately* Pre-Hys, in fact....when I was likely what yer'd call

Estrogen-Dominant, in order to feed fibroids the size of a volleyball

after two UAEs..., erhm, I digress, don't I...)

Also I do progesterone cream (Pro-Gest) for a week-to-10-days-at-a-

time...but not *every* month...maybe one such P cycle in two

months 'or so.' (Maybe I should do every month??? Even without

uterine lining to consider...the bone cycle which Lee and other

describe, and all...)

Also I take DHEA 5mg per day, for some years now, and I take 1 grain

per day of Armour Thyroid.

I have not had my hormones tested since TAH (or, hmm, BEFORE, for

that matter...) but intend to do so upon my 50th bday, impending.

My question is this...

I look Here and I look There, and I do not find specific

recommendations of What One Is To Do when one is Sans Ovaries.

You know...the Ovaries that, even after menopause, are still DOIN'

STUFF. Like, say, converting DHEA...and pregnenolone...and so forth

and so on.

[LOOK ::: SHE'S FINALLY GETTIN' TO THE DAMN QUESTION :::]

Can any of y'all Enlightened Ones direct me to some Fonts of

Knowledge regarding what adjustments one is to make when one has

been...erhm...Neutered???

[always] hopeful regards,

~ ruby ~