Women’s stories

“Don’t you ever get tired?”

Phoebe is 49 and has been on the Personal Program for two and a half years. She found that going through menopause left her with very low energy and moodiness. Once starting the Personal Program, she gained her energy back and leveled her moods. Here’s what she told us:

“When my menopausal symptoms began, I started taking estradiol pellets.  Even though using the pellets required cutting my skin a little every time I had a new pellet put in, I liked the fact that my body could take and use as much estrogen as it needed when it needed it. In the beginning of the cycle, when the estrogen was high, the pellets worked really well, but coming down was horrible. As my estrogen levels dropped, my menopause symptoms returned. And sometimes my blood would still show high quantities of estrogen even when I didn’t feel it, which meant I couldn’t get another pellet until the numbers came down again.

“I wanted a change. My moods weren’t steady and I was feeling exhausted in the afternoons. Sometimes even at one o’clock I would lie down to rest. I needed extra energy and did some searching on the internet for a quality vitamin. I found Women to Women and started the Personal Program. Within a few days, I noticed a difference. I no longer needed to lie down in the afternoon. It was a very subtle change, too — nothing like the estrogen pellets where I knew instantly when I didn’t have enough. I just all of the sudden thought, ‘Wow. I feel really great.’ Now, my friends always ask me, ‘Don’t you ever get tired?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, at ten o’clock at night!’

“After being on the program for a year, I’ve noticed some other great changes as well. First of all, I never get sick. I used to get a cold or get sick with allergies at least once a year and I haven’t been sick in the two and a half years I’ve been on the program! Secondly, after menopause, my coping skills are not what they used to be. But as long as I take my vitamins and eat right, I feel really good. My mood is much more stable and my husband says I’m more tolerable to live with. He likes me a lot better now!

“What I love about your program is the flexibility of it. I get my products in the mail, and I can pick up the phone for a consult whenever I want. Without Women to Women, I’d be up a high creek!”

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Original Publication Date:01/03/2007
Last Modified: 02/16/2010