I want to shout from the highest mountaintop about the benefits of bio-identical hormones! Yahoooo! Helloooo sanity! As I was going through menopause (and after, into post-menopause), I was actually losing my mind. I never had a hot flash, oddly enough, but I couldn't sleep! Not sleeping made me insane, edgy, angry, frightened, depressed, and just plain weird! Then I heard about natural hormone replacement with bio-identicals. My dear sisters, don't suffer the way I did! These natural hormones come as a cream that I dab on my inner forearms once a day and rub in -- the pharmacist actually mixes them up on-site. They gave my life back to me.View Thread
Oh, dear sweetheart! -- I was the same way! Please don't take anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, and sleeping pills. The side effects are under-rated, under-reported. Try bio-identical hormones. I just wrote a short post about it in this section (WedMD Menopause Community: Try Bio-Identical Hormones). After only a few days of use, I got my life back, my sanity back. Before that, I hadn't slept normally for almost a year. I tried Ambien to sleep -- which made me hallucinate and caused an overpowering sense of hopelessness and thoughts of suicide. I took anti-depressants, which dulled me out and made my mouth incredibly dry. My advice: Go natural. Drugs are over-rated and should only be used in emergencies and if nothing else is available. Do a search on Google for your area to find a doctor or pharmacy to help. Bless you!View Thread