I sent the following email to my sisters and decided to post it here for my many friends.
I was watching Oprah yesterday (January 23rd) and they were talking about how peri-menopause and menopause made women feel. Robin McGraw talked about how she was feeling at one time and how the Dr. treated her. She said, she was down, kind of depressed, irritable, etc., so she went to the Dr. and she (the Dr. was about 30 years old) told her that she had started menopause and tossed her several prescriptions and told her she would need to take these, and, oh by the way, here was a prescription for an anti-depressant. Robin later attended a ball game where her son was playing and sat next to another Dr. who was one of her friends and described what was going on and what her Dr. had said. The friend said that she might not need all of the prescriptions and to have her hormones checked. So Robin began researching menopause and then wrote "What's age got to do with it?" describing the end results of her research. Another woman, Dr. Christiane Northrup, wrote a book about her research into menopause, "The Wisdom of Menopause." These two women both came to the same conclusion, just because you're in menopause you DON'T have to feel bad mentally or physically.
You should have your hormones checked, specifically, progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone. Apparently the doctors replies about these hormones tends to be, "Oh yours are in the normal zone!" Just because they are in the normal zone does not mean they are normal for you. I think you should get these two books, read them and check into "Bio-identical Hormones". Also, check www.oprah.com for their discussions on yesterdays show. I learned quite a bit watching the show and would like to see you and Carol feeling better. The woman, Robin McGraw, said she had never felt better since she had begun the bio-identical hormone treatment. They had several women interviewed that had done the same thing after reading the books and said that after 1 week they were feeling like their old selves.
I was watching Oprah yesterday (January 23rd) and they were talking about how peri-menopause and menopause made women feel. Robin McGraw talked about how she was feeling at one time and how the Dr. treated her. She said, she was down, kind of depressed, irritable, etc., so she went to the Dr. and she (the Dr. was about 30 years old) told her that she had started menopause and tossed her several prescriptions and told her she would need to take these, and, oh by the way, here was a prescription for an anti-depressant. Robin later attended a ball game where her son was playing and sat next to another Dr. who was one of her friends and described what was going on and what her Dr. had said. The friend said that she might not need all of the prescriptions and to have her hormones checked. So Robin began researching menopause and then wrote "What's age got to do with it?" describing the end results of her research. Another woman, Dr. Christiane Northrup, wrote a book about her research into menopause, "The Wisdom of Menopause." These two women both came to the same conclusion, just because you're in menopause you DON'T have to feel bad mentally or physically.
You should have your hormones checked, specifically, progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone. Apparently the doctors replies about these hormones tends to be, "Oh yours are in the normal zone!" Just because they are in the normal zone does not mean they are normal for you. I think you should get these two books, read them and check into "Bio-identical Hormones". Also, check www.oprah.com for their discussions on yesterdays show. I learned quite a bit watching the show and would like to see you and Carol feeling better. The woman, Robin McGraw, said she had never felt better since she had begun the bio-identical hormone treatment. They had several women interviewed that had done the same thing after reading the books and said that after 1 week they were feeling like their old selves.
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