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Well, I decided to go ahead and try hormone replacement therapy because I was so desperate for anything to help me. I still felt bad, so only started with a half of a Duavee pill. OMG!!! Game changer!!! I have been on it for three weeks and I feel amazing! Like almost 100% normal. Usually medications make me feel really bad. It's like they build up and become too much for my system to handle. It was the opposite with this. I actually felt better. You are supposed to take a whole pill (one dose, one strength Duavee) but I was scared and cut it in half. I cannot imagine my life without this medication right now. There may be risks with hormone replacement therapy, but I'll take them as the benefits currently outweigh them. I may progress to trying the full pill in a week, but I'm doing really well on a half dose. My anxiety is gone, and so is my sensitivity to noise, light, brain fog much better, my hair is growing back in on the left side of my temple, I sleep through the night, my ocd-ishness is really dialed back, my heart rate and blood pressure normal. I feel like a human being again.
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Oh My Gosh!That is so Amazing!!!!I am so happy for you!That is crazy that prerty much all of your symptoms have iimproved on this.I am going to look it up and ask my gynecologist about it.I meet with her soon because my three week severe periods have started up again.I am going to have them check for cancers,endemetrosis and estrogen,progesterone,etc.I have gone to the GI Doctor and had several procedures and they can't find a thing.My endricinologist ordered more tests,but think what I have is neurological.The neurologist I met with told me he thought I had a metabolic muscular disease.They have no idea.They just keep sending me in circles.I am glad you told me that you are just taking half a pill.I do not do well with hormone replacement at all.I just know what I have is more than one thing.I did have the low iron from the severe periods/perimenopause and than covid or vaccine got me.I have to start trying everything because the Doctors just can't find anything.Please keep ke posted!This is very exciting news and gives me hope!I would be so excited if it could help with my all over weakness.