Re: didn't taper off the WP..now thinking twice about huge mistake

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> Hi Nanci

New to this disscuion group and reading anything I can on WP, I came

across your entry, I hope you are doing better than you were in the

Spring. I have just started ( on my 3rd month).

It sounds like your body really reacted to the E and the P, very quickly

with major side effects. I have noticed a few things but nothing to

extreme.

Where you on the E and P creams in the green and purple syringes?

How did you NP react to your side effects?

Thanks

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> Hi Laurel and group,

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> Starting on the WP on March 11th 2011 was the beginning of all my

troubles. I continued on it until April 24th 2011, so what is that

around 7 weeks. The longer I was on them the sicker I got. Caren kept

telling me to up the estradiol to more lines and then divide them during

the day instead of taking them twice a day. I followed her instruction

to the tee. nothing helped. By the time I stopped, my b/p was so high, I

thought I was going to have a stroke. my anxiety got worse and worse and

I couldn't sleep or be a functioning person in any sense of the word.

> When I stopped, and I mean cold turkey stop, a very smart gyno and one

I trusted, and who thought the WP was the craziest thing he ever saw,

lowered my doses to more reasonable amounts, but because my P and E was

so high according to saliva tests I had, no amount, reasonable or tiny

continued to keep me in misery. I couldn't take any hormones without it

making me sicker, so I stopped all of it again cold turkey. Now that I

am in Adrenal fatigue and Thyroid crisis, I don't know if it all came

from the WP or stopping the massive amounts of creams cold turkey. I

never knew anything about tapering. I think Caren told me I could just

stop as did the NP in Florida who put me on the WP. Being I was only on

the Protocol for less than 2 months. did I do an injustice to myself by

just stopping? what do I do now, now that the damage has been done and

my entire endocrine system is damaged?

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> I am seeing an osteopath and waiting for numerous blood test results

to come in. I know I have a high Reverse T3, high evening and nightime

cortisol levels (causing terrible insomnia) causing so many symptoms I

can function. I can't sleep, I can't eat, my blood pressure has dropped

to dangerous levels and had to begin weaning off my beta blocker, have

all day palpitaitons with a rapid pounding heart, headaches, dizziness,

lightheadedness,muscle aches, RLS, achiness in legs at night, faint,

weak, IBS, hot flushes, rage, brain fog, cold hands and feet, hair loss,

anxiety and depression and the list goes on and on.....

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> I don't know what to do now. I don't know if the doctor will find the

cause of all this and what caused it. I have all the symptoms of AF,

hypothyroid and menopause. I read that high progesterone levels can

cause high cortisol levels and if the adrenals burn out from anxiety and

stress, you get AF which can affect thyroid and visa versa. it's a

vicious cycle.

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> What can any of you suggest if you know?

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> I am scared now to put any prgesterone or estradiol in my body. I read

that older women don't need progesterone, only estrogen, but I also read

you shouldn't take unopposed estrogen. I am so confused and scared.

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> What did I do to myself? is there anything I can do to remedy this

mess?

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> I am still waiting for anyone interested in pursuing the WP suit to

contact me with their story in a short paragraph, so I can send it off

to my daughter.

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> Thanks for listening to my ramblings.....

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> Take care and be well,

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> xoxox

> Nanci

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