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[quote=Anonymous]It's been horrific for me. I have suffered for years with hot flashes and night sweats and my pcp and my gyn ignored it and never even mentioned hrt. After getting frustrated with not being able to get in to see my pcp (the wait for annual physical appts was 6 months and all urgent/sick visits meant seeing the NP who messed something up for me), I started looking into concierge doctors and found Ms. Medicine. Eileen West in FFX has a lot of knowledge about menopause, and once she put me on estradiol and progesterone I've been fine. Hot flashes and night sweats are gone, and I'm sleeping through the night. I hadn't known that my insomnia was the peri/menopause, but it was. HRT fixed it pretty much immediately. I thought I would never sleep through the night again, and now I do.

I'd been suffering since my hot flashes started in 2019. I was officially menopausal, one year period free, September of 2023. Got my hrt a couple of months ago, and feel so much better. Wish I'd had this treatment years ago.

So many problems that could have been avoided. My psychiatrist actually put me on klonopin for my insomnia, and that was awful and coming off of it was months and months of nightmarish withdrawal. I also got an awful skin yeast infection in my groin area because I couldn't keep it dry at all with all of the constant sweating. Those are almost impossible to get rid of completely and the itching is awful. I wish someone had just given me the HRT years ago.

I work at a med school and heard one of the obgyn faculty telling a student about black cohosh for peri symptoms, and I tried it, but it did nothing. YMMV on that. [/quote]

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