I FEEL THE LOVE!! (not) June 8, 2010
Posted by Lyn in : Case Studies In Natural Compounded Hormone Therapy, Hot BHRT Topics, Uneducated doctors , trackbackI have never been one to blog unless I felt I had something significant to say. Boy, do I have something to say now! You will never believe what happened today! We had a client come through our cottage a few weeks ago for her free consultation. We listened to her and together, developed a strategy to deal with her hormone imbalance. In essence she was on board to “get tested, get treated and get better.” At least that was our game plan! Unfortunately, when we got her lab results back and sent our recommendation for her hormone balance to her practitioner to sign off on it, and fax it back so we could make her customized therapy, there was a glitch! This client went to a practitioner who we advise against because she is non-supportive of customized therapy. She would rather slap an estrogen patch on you or presribe a one-size-fits-most progesterone capsule based on your symptoms and be done with it. We strongly, passionately disagree! We feel women deserve to be respected enough to actually check their hormone levels. How is this difficult or even controversial?? Don’t doctors check every other level known to man (and woman)?? Again I beg the answer to “WHY NOT HORMONE LEVELS?”
Why NOT check hormone levels and then plan a strategy for restoring hormone balance via natural options? Why not just customize the therapy for that client?? How hard can this be really?? You guessed it! This practitioner talked our client out of customized hormone therapy that we recommended based on HER body’s levels, and instead prescribed the commercially available prometrium capsule. Although both are bioidentical progesterone, we get far greater success with our compounded progesterone cream because we can make necessary dosage adjustments during the process of balancing your hormones. From our point of view, using progesterone cream is a superior way to treat progesterone deficiency. Being able to adjust therapy is the key to success. I fully expect to hear from this client in the future when she isn’t experiencing the success she was promised. And we have no options to adjust her dosage when she is taking prometrium capsules. OUR focus is helping women get better with strategies that are customized for them.
In this case, this client loses.
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What I don’t get is women come to you becaues their DOCTOR isn’t helping them. So why do they then take the doctor’s advice in a situation like this?!
Before I found the cottage, I had an experience where my doctor prescribed a bioidentical estrogen patch, but it was also “one-size-fits-most”. He never checked my hormone levels prior to prescribing it. It actually made my symptoms so bad – the anxiety was terrible – that I thought I was going crazy. But I never questioned or suspected that patch. I thought the problem was me. When I met Lyn and got my hormones actually checked, the true story was revealed. My doctor was offended that I had “double-checked”, although I strong-armed him into signing off on Lyn and Jeff’s recommendation. But it was adios to that doctor soon after. Now after almost 8 months on bio progesterone cream, and a doctor who listens to me and works with me, my life has turned around. I’m not quite there yet, but I didn’t get to where I was overnight. All I know is that I found hope, support, love, and access to information through Lyn and the Cottage. And what is life without hope? I will always be so grateful! Lyn is on a mission and we can all benefit from her caring about all of us.