Playing with hormones not a good idea

[Guest guest]

Read your post this morning and don't exactly know what you're changing but what I do know after spending more than 3.5 hour with Dr. Schwarzbein is that hormones are messy to 'play with' if you don't have a doctor guiding you. She told me things about the high levels of Wiley Protocol hormones that were a wee bit scary...most of it has to do with how the E & P affect the rest of our hormones, specifically adrenaline and and cortisol levels in the body. The other thing is that evidently we don't really know how much estrogen is in our tissues because much of it is carried in our lymph system. 

In so many ways, we (menopausal women) are but guinea pigs but the thing that I sense is that only trained endocrinologist that have really studied estrogen and progesterone and menopause have a clue. There are too many other types of doctors out there who think they understand but really don't...mostly because it is so complicated and it's just not their area of study.

Even though you say you don't feel toxic, you probably are but just don't know what you're feeling and I say that from experience. When we start to feel a little worse than we used to feel but it's not bad enough to really notice, this becomes our new normal. It's only through getting the system in balance that we begin to realize, " Oh, I really DIDN'T feel well. "

I do suggest that you not just stop the protocol. I had a doctor a couple of years ago (thinking he knew what he was doing) tell me I HAD TO get off the WP and put me on a patch. Well, I was sick for 3 months...terrible diarrhea, started having the most massive calf cramps (painful beyond belief and I still have them once in a while), exhausted...anyway, several doctors tried to figure out what was happening but I finally realized that the only difference was the patch. I watched my cycle and on day 1 put myself back on the WP and the diarrhea immediately went away. THAT was not fun.

For what it's worth, Dr. S is having me decrease by one line of E morning and night this current cycle and in a couple of days we're going to lower it by one more one morning and night. That puts me at E+2 instead of +4 which I have been on for a long time. We already lowered the P to P-2 morning and night. Not sure what we'll do starting with my next cycle in a couple days. Will keep you posted.

-- beth DonatiThe Financial Literacy Lady