OI/POTS and the menopause
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Aug 2017
Summary
Combined bioidentical hormone therapy - a "healthy dose" of bioidentical progesterone plus topical estriol, topical testosterone, DHEA and pregnenolone - fine-tuned using DUTCH hormone testing. She is a cancer survivor whose ovaries and uterus were removed, followed by chemotherapy, and notes that pregnenolone and DHEA can run low in ME/CFS. She reports her menopause symptoms fully resolved, stating "I have no menopause symptoms now, only POTS." Her underlying POTS, and by extension her ME/CFS, persisted unchanged by the hormone protocol, so the benefit was specific to menopausal symptoms rather than her chronic illness overall. No relapse is mentioned, and the regimen reads as an ongoing maintenance protocol rather than a completed, time-limited course.
What they credit
Credits Sex hormones (progesterone, estrogen, HCG), Testosterone.
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