(03-04-2014, 03:35 PM)Karren Wrote: I still have a half bottle of those breast pills in my drawer! lol.... I think I got into NBE because I was cheap and didn't want to go get a prescription for anything stronger... which I feel there's nothing wrong with.... if it gets you to where you need to be!
(03-04-2014, 02:27 AM)Samantha Rogers Wrote: An interesting series of thoughts, Annie.
I suppose, risking branding on this board as a heretic, I should confess that what originally brought me to this board was a mix of ignorance and laziness, and had nothing to do with being "natural"
After years of "dressing", I knew I needed more...of what, exactly, I did not know. I was in a drug store and saw a bottle of pills in the women's health section that promised to boost breast growth. On a whim, I bought the bottle and took the pills for awhile, feeling foolish as I knew I was a sucker. But I looked at the ingredients, and the pills contained a cocktail oh herbal ingredients. Researching those ingredients brought me here, and the rest is history.
But it was about convenience, you see?
Had that same drug store shelf contained bottles os over the counter estradiol, I would have bought that.
However, at the time I was convinced the only path to a supply of regular HRT hormones led through. Therapist and at least a year of living full time as a woman.
This was four years ago and the depth of my ignorance at that time was staggering.
Yes, I now have a supply of estradiol, but only through a series of happy coincidences that led me to it without any of the baggage involving long term therapy, living as a woman and so on. Granted, I am now using the services of a TG therapist, but this came about more in connection to stress after coming out to my wife and the ensuing problems associated with that, rather than an attempt to gain access to a scrip.had I not stumbled into the office of an unbelievably open minded, TG friendly endo, I expect I would still not be using estradiol, and would still be happily scarfing handfuls of PM.
It isn't, for me about whether the "tool" is natural, but about whether it is most effective, and readily available on my terms.
And, yes, I expect PM is far more complex than syn E. On the other hand, I think I had gone maybe as far as I could on PM, and that I needed a change.
We will see where this goes, won!t we?
. LOL
(02-04-2014, 10:44 PM)AnnabelP Wrote: I wish I knew my own T level. I'm still trying to extract the results of the blood tests I managed to persuade the NP to order and have an appointment with her on Monday. I am interested that your endo said, Iif I understood you correctly, that loss of male function is usually reversible - I was certainly under the impression that mine had gone for good.
(09-04-2014, 03:03 PM)ClaraKay Wrote: Annie,
I, too, have noticed how vague and reluctant doctors are to give detailed, precise information about my health. It's maddening how they think I'm incapable of understanding anything remotely technical.
I remember after my latest colonoscopy, I asked about the results and got the same vague responses about the discovery of a couple polyps and their nature. I got the feeling he didn't want to be bothered discussing it. When the doctor was suddenly called away from the examination room, he left the official medical report on the monitor, so I walked over to read it. It was very interesting and answered all my questions and more -- how clean the colon was, how much of the colon was inspected, no sign of diverticulitis, polyp locations, tissue type from the biopsy analysis, no swollen hemorrhoids, etc. Why are doctors so protective of giving out the straight scoop?
Clara
