***Wacky Hormones**

[NautyOne]

I was just reading someones journal and she said that she had her hormone levels checked.  WTF  My NP told me they cant do that......Now I am flaming!!!!!!  Should I see my Primary and see whats up?  She just gave me a bottle of clonodine and said .......Good luck......I hope it works for you.......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr  I am mad and scared to take the clonidine b/c She says take at bedtime for night sweats & hot flashes......how am I gonna know if its gonna kill me if I am sleeping b/c I have pretty low bp in the first place.........argggggg

Nauty.........

[GoingToMakeIt]

I thought NP was Naturo-Path. Have you tried a ND before? They have helped both my wife & I.

[newgirl2708]

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[newgirl2708]

take a half or quarter dose of clonodine just to get the 'edge' off..you're wound up toooo tight..you won't die from such a small amount...probably...maybe...but I sure would try it for the weekend then get to the real dr on monday....no np's...just dr's...

[cathy5841]

nauty, i had a hysterectomy at 23. since that time i have had my hormones checke every year to year and half.  about 8 years ago my levels dropped dramatically.  they tried my on hormones replacement.  i could not tolerate the hormone because theey caused me to have migraines everyday.  so i suffer all the symptoms of low hormones...i know how you feel.

[LateAugust]

Like Cathy I also had a complete hysterectomy when I was 30, due to medical issues.  The docs can check your estrogen level via a simple blood test, which is how the doc determined the amount of estrogen prescription.   There are so many "opinions" regarding HRT so I won't even go down that path!.  Replacement treatment has been a god send for me,  but that is a very personal decision that each person needs to make for herself after reading all the info available.

Good luck to you,  I think you will be releived after talking to your doc.

Jeanette

[NautyOne]

Well this is what I think may be going on......she told me my only options would be a low dose birth control, but because I smoke, she can't prescribe.  She said there is no reason to bother checking for anything unless my periods have stopped??huh?  I feel like she was just blowing me, but then again, maybe their isn't anything else they can do for raging anger and night sweats.  I get hot flashes maybe 1 a month if that, she also told me to try the OTC estroven stuff and calcium.  The clonidine is only when I get the sweats and thats only about 5 days a month.  So, I wonder if there is anything they really can do?.....ahhhhhh  I was taking Ativan but stopped taking it because it was actually making it worse.  I got the opposite affect from it......that stuff made my wired, thats not what I needed.  I will not take xanax Ever!  valium maybe, but I don't think that will work.  Man am I screwed, but I will see the DR. anyway.

Frustrated.....Maybe I need to start exercising again ......get it out on the old treadmill God I am so frustrated.  I have broken things, throwing things, kicking things, yelling at my dogs.......that kills me.  and in two weeks it is gone and I am back to me.  Maybe I am mental?  I just don't know anymore.  Boy do I need to see a doc.

GTMI  I have almost given up all the diet coke....Yea. I feel so much better for it.

Thanks guys for all your responses.  I feel better already.  I feel like I am going insane literally....its scary.....phewwww

MissNauty...........