Women’s stories
“Nothing had helped me.”
Lisa is 54 and menopausal. She had used high-dose Premarin for the past eight years
to help with her symptoms, and it had been effective. But this year her doctor advised
her to stop HRT — pronto.
His advice was to wean off her Premarin in only a month. (Not recommended!) Her
symptoms returned as soon as she began to reduce her dosage. The only option her
doctor offered was the antidepressant Paxil, but Lisa refused. She knew she wasn’t
depressed and didn’t want the side effects.
A month after stopping her Premarin Lisa felt like she was coming apart. She suffered
severe hot flashes and sweats day and night, and could hardly sleep at all. She
tried other products, such Estroven, to no avail. The final straw was that her vaginal
tissue became extremely dry and uncomfortable, leaving her with no interest
in sex for the first time in her life.
Lisa began to search for alternatives. She read Suzanne Somers’ book, The
Sexy Years, and began to search the web for information. That’s when
she found us. She joined the Personal Program immediately.
Within a month Lisa’s hot flashes and night sweats were almost gone, and she
was sleeping through the night. There was new hope!
A couple of weeks later her advisor at the Personal Program called to see how she
was doing. Lisa said she was very pleased but only wished her vaginal dryness would
go away. We told her about our Vitamin E vaginal suppositories.
About a month later Lisa spoke with one of our Nurse–Educators. She was feeling
even better and loved the Vitamin E vaginal suppositories. We explained that sex
drive — and vaginal tissue — can take a long time to recover after weaning
off a powerful estrogen like Premarin.
We encouraged her to keep using the vaginal suppositories in the meantime, and be
patient with herself. We recommended she read How to Make Love the Way We Used to
– And Better, by Harvard physician Dr. Alan Altman. And we told her
about the bioidentical estrogen vaginal creams that she could request from her doctor
if she didn’t feel she was making progress fast enough with the Program alone.
Lisa was grateful for the choices we gave her, but said she preferred to give her
Program time to work first. She promised to call us back in a couple of months to
update us on her progress and talk about next steps.
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The Personal Program promotes natural hormonal balance with nutritional supplements,
our exclusive endocrine support formula, dietary and lifestyle guidance, and optional
phone consultations with our Nurse–Educators. It is a convenient, at-home
version of what we recommend to all our patients at the clinic.
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Last Modified Date: 05/25/2011