randibear
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this is absolutely crazy or at least i think it is...
my obgyn put me back on cenestin pills and premarin vaginal cream..
the sweating was driving me crazy and he said this would help...
the sweating has really gone down, the joint pain is not as bad, some of the twitching is reduced....
so why would hormone pills reduce these symptoms? i guess i'm trying to decide what's lyme and what's not...
still, hope springs eternal...
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TheTruth
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Are you in menopause? Joint pain is very common in menopause. Maybe your joint pain was never from lyme disease at all. Or, at the very least, the pain was multifactorial. By taking exogenous hormones to treat the symptoms of menpause, you improved your symptoms. Therefore, it would seem logical to me that at least a portion of your symptoms are related to hormonal dysregulation.
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randibear
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well i had a hysterectomy at about 45. the really heavy sweating and all started about two or three years ago and i would have been about 55 at that time.....
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A hysterectomy (assuming it was a TAH/BSO) is the exact defintion of "surgical menopause". In medical menopause women's ovaries shut down...in surgical menopause women's ovaries are removed. The end result is the same.
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Lymeorsomething
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Sex hormones will usually give you some kind of charge. The only danger is in potentially masking lyme symptoms, which I guess isn't a bad thing...
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northstar
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I ran across this article on hormones and MS:
quote:Sex hormones: Estriol is an estrogen-like hormone that may have both neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory properties.
A small pilot study with 10 non-pregnant women showed a significant reduction in inflammatory lesions as well as cognitive improvement.
Based on these results, seven medical centers in the United States are conducting a two-year trial, enrolling 130 women with RRMS to receive daily Copaxone injections along with a daily estriol pill or a placebo.
Additionally, a recent report of four women, whose MS symptoms remitted during infertility therapy, adds weight to the concept that sex hormones may be a viable anti-inflammatory therapy.
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Lymeorsomething
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Yes, I know testosterone works as an anti-inflammatory of sorts. It also helps general sense of well-being so I would imagine estrogen would do the same for women.
I've read studies though that suggest T may actually help lyme spread or something along those lines. I'll have to get the citation.
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I will be waiting for Lymeorsomething's next post. My OB/GYN recently suggested Testosterone for me. When I asked my LLMD about it, he made the remark that it does mask lyme symptoms and that I would feel better, and he had no objection, but suggested I get to the root of the "lack of libido" instead.(read romance needed) He didn't say anything about it spreading lyme faster.
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