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My sisters are going through some wicked perimenopause symptoms which include very much bleeding (so much so that one sister had to leave work early one day). These two are scheduled to have some procedures done. Is anyone familiar with the following books? Another sister, who seems not to suffer the same symptoms, recommends them below:
The books I just ordered are by Dr. John Lee and Virginia Hopkins: Hormone Balance Made Simple and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause.
I just started but it looks like many women have avoided surgery and corrected many annoying problems. The main remedy here seems to be Natural Progesterone Cream or at least a balance of progesterone and estrogen. A friend recommended this years ago and I've been using it for 1-2 years. Ask your Drs. about it. Have lots of reading to do yet. It looks good. They were cheap from half.com. You can most likely pick them up at the library too. Another one that a friend recommended is Natural Hormone Balance for Women by Dr. Uzzi Reiss. Haven't cracked that cover yet. It just came yesterday. I hope you might find them useful.
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"What your Doctor..." was also recommended to me a couple of years ago. I do not have any serious symptoms, but found the book very enlightening and encouraging in that there are other alternatives out there. You just have to make the effort to find them. This book should be helpful for your sister, to at least discover what else is out there in the traditional and alternative medical fields. I hope your sister is able to find relief through an understanding practitioner and she is informed enough before meeting with a "knife happy" gynocologist.
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You can gain a lot of inside info. on the Dr. Lee book by reading the reams of comments on Amazon. That's what I did when I was looking at this book.
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Fwiw, about 1/3 of women have no symptoms, about 1/3 have mild symptoms, and about 1/3 have significant trouble. I am in the last group (lucky me!), and I attribute that to the impact of excessive stress in the last few years. I find that when I can exercise, that really seems to help, but I also did take hormone replacement for a brief time. I hadn't realized that HRT is basically oral contraceptive, and even though I was well beyond the age when I could probably conceive, my husband and I still abstained during the fertile period of the month. I was fortunate to have a dedicated Catholic ob/gyn who doesn't prescribe contraceptives explain the teaching of the Church wrt taking this medication.
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stellamaris wrote:
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Caroline,
Are bioidenticals like an oral contraceptive as well? I'm on natural progesterone cream for the last half of my cycle. Just wondering!
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Sue,
I'll check on this and get back to you, but I think they are a little different. I needed something stronger because I was basically bleeding every two weeks for about ten days, and also I was totally unable to remember anything, even important things like my son being in the bath! I put him in, went to grab his jammies, and forgot he was in there...only for about 30 seconds, but still it was scary because he is special needs and even though he was safe for a minute or two, he really couldn't get out or be left long on his own. Mentally, perimenopause made me feel like I had ADD...I just couldn't focus on anything, which had never been a problem before. So there are physical symptoms (exhaustion, bruising,sleep disturbances, bleeding)and mental/emotional symptoms (unstable emotions, loss of memory and focus).
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I checked with a doctor, who told me that any oral treatments which work by altering hormone levels probably all have the contraceptive effect. A cream might have some of this effect, also, but less so. The use of these hormones for perimenopausal symptoms is acceptable for a faithful Catholic because you are not trying to prevent the conception of a child; the contraceptive effect is a side-effect to a medication you are taking for another problem. This is the same reason that a hysterectomy is not immoral if it is done for reasons that do not have anything to do with preventing conception (e.g., cancer, chronic bleeding). We abstained during fertile periods because of the potential abortifacient effect of the medicine.
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