I'm wondering for the women with lyme and have been put on hormones- bio identical progesterone and estradiol. I'm 55 yrs old and wondering do our LLMD's ever suggest us as women to get off of our hormones, if we have our lyme symptoms in check..?
Is there a time when women are supposed to come off of hormones ever?.. like what is the escape route for this expense?? Is there an age??
And how do you come off of them???
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
This is something to discuss with your gyn rather than your lyme doctor.
Each person is different. My brain cannot handle life without estrogen. My body makes none after menopause. If it was 100 years ago, I would have been locked up once menopause hit.
For women who don't need estrogen to function normally, the gyns generally tell you to takes the estradiol for a few years, then taper off of it.
So, if you are taking 2 mg per day, go down to 1 mg and see how you feel. If you feel OK, then break that in half. If OK, then take it every other day. Finally, stop taking it.
Older women generally don't take more than 1 mg per day. Many women never even need hormone replacement.
I got rid of lyme 12 years ago. It had given me a false menopause while I was in my 40s. Good lyme treatment got my ovaries functioning again and making estrogen again. For 7 years I was on hormone replacement due to lyme. I could tell when I no longer needed the hormones. It was once a doctor followed the Burrascano protocol for me. Within 3 months, I no longer needed the hormones. I just watched what my body was doing. I saw it change back to normal functioning.
Then, a few years later, the real menopause came along and I had to go back on hormones again.