Leslie Carol Botha: I originally posted this article in 2009. Thought it was well-written then and still think so. However, in the past two weeks readers of my blog have dug back into the HHH archives and have commented on their own ‘hormonal anxiety’ so I decided to repost it in June 2012. Now 288 posts later – it appears that hormone imbalance has become a silent epidemic affecting women of all ages.
Hormone imbalance -in the form of estrogen dominance which can cause hormone-related anxiety, insomnia, weight gain, emotional rage, phobias, and diabetes is due to the plastics in our environment…. throw out all of your plastic water bottles – they contain high amounts of estrogen mimickers, AND DO NOT MICROWAVE IN PLASTIC. Estrogen mimickers are found in food, household chemicals and our water supply – from the high amounts of synthetic estrogen being excreted into the water streams from synthetic birth control and HRT. I kid you not. There have been plenty of articles about fishing changing their sex because of excreted hormones.
Lastly – we are now 3 to 4 generations into synthetic hormone suppression, i.e., birth control (pills, IUD’s implants, injections, rings, and patches). All of the estrogen is being built up in the body and passed in-utero to the fetus. So you will note many young women who have posted comments about hormone imbalance too. This is sad. We are upsetting the hormone – chemical balance in the body. Women are suffering. And if we do not correct the imbalance – it will only get worse. Such is the nature of not taking care of our health.
I believe that most women experience ‘hormonal anxiety’ in one form or another. Unfortunately, the medical and psychiatric professions are quick to diagnosis and label with syndromes and then proceed to treat with drugs.
Now we know that source of this misdiagnosis is, in most cases hormone imbalance it can be corrected through nutritional supplementation, and hormone balancing. Most women are estrogen dependent. I have been recommending Progessence Plus– that contains a wild yam extract infused with essential oils that repair the DNA and clear off the receptor sites on our cells so that the natural progesterone can be absorbed into the cell – and not remain in fatty tissue of the body.
What Is Hormonal Imbalance Anxiety?
ehow.com
By Shelly Mcrae, eHow Editor
2009
Everyone experiences anxiety at one point or another, such as before an important test in school, an important presentation at work, during the holidays or when experiencing a crisis of any kind. Anxiety in these instances help you stay alert, focus on tasks at hand or make quick decisions.
But when anxiety turns into an ongoing sense of apprehension, or begins to manifest as debilitating fear, it may be due to personality disorder or a hormonal imbalance. It’s important to determine the cause of your anxiety and determine how to treat it.
Features
Identification
In cases in which hormonal imbalances are the root cause, as opposed to a personality disorder, the anxiety may not be so severe as to be labeled a panic attack. Rather, it more closely resembles mood swings or depression. But rather than feeling sad or irritable, you feel apprehension and uneasiness.
Significance
Anxiety induced by hormonal imbalances, such as estrogen dominance in which the level of the hormone progesterone is very low, differs from those panic attacks associated with personality disorders such as bipolar or obsessive-compulsive disorders. But there are also similarities. Determining the root cause of the anxiety can determine which treatment is appropriate.
Types
The sense of anxiety may not be as exaggerated as for those suffering from personality disorders. Instead, you may feel uneasy in social situations, be reluctant to make decisions or continually worry over problems that are relatively minor.
But your anxiety may not be limited to the more subtle form. In cases of severe hormonal imbalance, you may suffer full-blown panic attacks in which fear, though irrational, overwhelms your reasoning. You may be unable to explain why you are reacting to a simple incident as if it were a life crisis.
Function
Considerations
In the case of severe panic attacks, such medications as benzodiazepines and antidepressants may be necessary to control the attacks. These are common treatments for personality disorders. (I DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT. LB.)
Left untreated, mild anxiety can worsen, resulting in debilitating behavior patterns due to unwarranted fear. Whether the underlying cause is personality disorder or hormonal imbalance, effective treatment is available.
Diseases Caused by Hormone Imbalance
I hope you read this!!
I’m under treatment for anxiety and depression. I have been for 11yrs. I was on birth control pills since I was 15 yrs old ( except to have my two children and I’m now 35). This past August 30th I had a tubal ligation and quit my pills at that day. Now, I find myself extremely anxious and in tears over things that I wouldn’t normally cry over. It’s worse at that time of the month. Do you think it could be hormone related? I look forward to seeing what you think!
Hi, Jennifer – first of all sincere apologies for not responding sooner.
There is no doubt that the emotions you are experiencing are related to hormones and the suppression of a vital part of your brain for 11 years. 15 years old is a very young age to be on birth control. Your neuro – endocrine – immune systems are not fully developed – and then are suppressed with the pill.
What kind of pill were you taking? That is also helpful to know since all pills are not the same.
What many women do not know and are not told – because doctors do not know is the the pill depletes vital nutrients especially B vitamins that are linked to emotional wellness.
Add in two pregnancies where vital nutrients are also depleted as everything is coming from your body’s nutritional reserve to provide the nutritional building blocks your babies need to thrive. If those micronutrients are not replaced (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes) the body becomes further weakened, the brain does not get the nutrients it needs and the emotional response to that is anxiety and tears.
Next is the the tubal. Before you were getting some hormones albeit – synthetic – and then your tubes were tied and it is like shutting the garage door. Now you are pretty much cut off from your reproductive hormones. Your body does experience some shock from that which will also affect your mental/emotional state.
So all in all – based on your circumstances is pretty much normal and expected. However, it is not you – and not how you want to feel. The good news is – is that all of this can be changed and your mental/emotional restored with the proper organic nutrients and the addition of minerals to your diet. None of us get what we need anyway.
I highly recommend the NamanaLiri minerals. I have been on them for a year and love them. The spray is wonderful for my face and for cuts, bruising and eczema. Check out their website at namanaliri.com
The nutritional supplement I recommend is Truehope – truehope.com. Pricey – but better than anti-depressants. And you many only need them for short term.
And the last product I will recommend is Crila for Uterine Health – estrogen free. Now that your hormones have been disrupted you have no idea how your uterus will react until you have problems. Why wait? Do the research and decide.
You are worth it.
You can and will get better – your body will heal given the right tools and nutrients.
You can always email me too.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hi Leslie, first of all let me say that I am in awe of your knowledge. I wish I had found this website years ago, it took me many years of research and trial and error (sometimes to great detriment to my health) to figure out even a small part of this puzzle of nutrients-hormonal balance-health and everything you’re saying here is spot on. To those questioning the role of nutritional deficiencies (and therefore hormonal imbalance) in mental illness I can attest to the veracity of the connection, back 3 years ago I was literally going insane with auditory hallucinations and formication due to an extreme deficiency in Vitamin B12, D, minerals and God knows what else they didn’t test for.
Anyway, my question here:
I’m 35 years old, no children, I have been on yasminelle for about 14 years, I decided to stop with Yasminnelle for good a few weeks ago and I’m going through a bloating-weight gain hell.
I’m pretty sure I have estrogen dominance and have had it for many years although the worst symptoms became very intense 3 years ago (fatigue, hair loss, terrible digestive issues, depression, fog brain etc ) Now I have managed to improve these symptoms quite a lot in the last few months by eating right and some mineral and vitamin supplementation but I’m still suffering from persistent fat in my tights and hips as well as disfiguring cellulite in these areas, bloating and some hair loss.
My question is, could wild yam cream help me reduce the fat on my tights and hips? Should the cream be applied to these areas only and if so how often.
Also please let me know if you have any other recommendations.
Thank you for the lovely comment – and appreciation of the knowledge that I have gained over the years.
And I am grateful for your knowledge as well…and your experience. Yes, it does sound like you are experimenting estrogen dominance. Most of us do. Basically because all of the synthetic estrogens in our environment. Plastic and BPA is the biggest and most dangerous culprit. I did a quick search for Yasminelle. Did you know there was a lawsuit against Bayer because of this pill?
It is a combined contraceptive – meaning there is a synthetic hormone called progestin which is suppressing natural progesterone production. Every symptom you described including hair loss screams estrogen dominance and low levels of progesterone. Look up Alopecia.
Natural progesterone cream – Wild Yam will help.
I am also going to suggest a new organic compound of fulvic and humic minerals. Check out NamanaLiri.com They will help with weight loss as well. We have all been duped into buying isolated minerals – when in fact – just like estrogen and progesterone they need to be in ratio to each other to be effective. These two sets or organid compounds work in conjunction with each other. The fulvic minerals are light enough in molecular weight to cross the cell membrane and nutrate the mitochondria.
The humic minerals are heavier and cannot get into the cell… but they stay in the interstitial space (water) between the cells… and transports the toxins out of the body. This is crucial – most of us are loaded with toxins without a mechanism of action to transport them out of the body.
And yes, I am losing weight too. The weight that is building up on your thighs and hips is due to stored estrogens. Let’s get those toxins out of the body.
Feel free to email me if you want more information.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi, I know the last post was 2017 but I’m hoping you will see this comment.
Last year I found out I was pregnant, at two months I started feeling like I would pass out and it was every so often I’d go to the shops that it would happen. 3 weeks later I got a numbness feeling in my bottom right lip and chin (which I still sometimes get now). Then at 3 months I had a miscarriage at the start of December. Which I found out I actually had a blighted Ovum. I bled heavy for 3 weeks then had a d&c to remove product that was still there and then continued to bleed for two weeks after that. I had a panic attack (which I didn’t realise at the time) and ended up in the ER, was in there for a week with mris and scans and blood work and everything was fine.
Came home after Xmas and still felt terrible, my naturopath told me I was anemic but I also felt I had bad anxiety as the doctor told me… and I’ve never had anxiety or panic attacks before. Now pls no judging, over January and feb I had 4 morning after pills. I still to this day have anxiety and panic attacks. I strongly believe there is an underlying cause! I’m seeing a 3rd doctor for an opinion as I’ve been told I just have anxiety. She did a hormonal 24hr blood test that came back fine except my progesterone was a little low and she’s telling me to go on the pill and she believes it may be a hormonal Imbalance and is also to finding it weird that this anxiety has come about before the miscarriage. Someone told me about hormonal imbalance and I was wondering if you could please give me advice!
Thanks
Sorry forgot to mention, my last period was 6 weeks ago and I’ve had random blood clots and light bleeding the past month and the doctor said from the blood results I should be half way through my mesntrul cycle but I’m not, I have random light bleeding sometimes when I wipe but other than that nothing
Hello, are you still answering questions on this subject?
Thanks.
Emma
Hi Emma – yes I am – going through the comments now. My website has been down for the last month. I feel so bad for my readers… but am back and interested in helping you all the best I can.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Yes, I am Emma – thought I did respond. Am sorry the lack of response. We moved my blog to a new platform and I had to be offline for the better part of the month. Will be glad to answer any questions you might have.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
You are mistaken in your link of personality disorders to those requiring medication for anxiety. I have no personality disorder, and have severe anxiety and panic, without irrational thought patterns. People with personality disorders often need medication and therapy, but the need for those is not exclusive to personality disorders. Try reading the DSM. Generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and bipolar are examples of people who need medication/horomal balance who do not have a personality disorder.
Hi Holly – I am well aware of that. And you obviously have done your research. Please look into Truehope – They are the leaders in brain health and have helped thousands of people with hormone imbalance, anxiety and bipolar disorder.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi can you please tell me more about your book? I have severe panic and anxiety and have issues now with my cycle . I feel like I have morning sickness but I’m not pregnant and I keep getting a watery mouth. Please help!
Hi, Brooke – I do not have enough information from your comment to know what to do on. Are you on a form of birth control? Have you been pregnant in the past?
Please get back to me so I can understand what is going on. How old are you? That is another good question.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi , I am sara from Pakistan , age 28 . I am trying to conceive since 1 yr but all in vain . I faced many irregular periods in my life , acc to doctors mostly due to stress or diet, I used to have 2 periods in a month with not so heavy bleeding. The month I got married I went to doctor and they prescribed me progyluton as my LH was high as a result of which my periods are normalized .in between I went again to check my harmonies and everything was normal(6 months after taking progyluton) .After 6 months I went again as my follicle size ranged from 1.3cm(one month) and after 2 month it ranged 2cm ..However 9 months of hormonal tablet I went again third to check my harmonies my Fsh was 10.2 and had subclinical hyperthyroid .However hyperthyroid is normal now after 2 weeks .But am really worried about Fsh , am having nausea , bloating , migraines all the time esp before 2 weeks periods .this month am not even having period .
My question can FSH alter next month and can come back to normal range .Also how to normalize it naturally ..Really worried
Hi Sara from Pakistan – Love that you reached out. Suggesting that you get off of this pill. I would rather have high LH than be on this synthetic pill that is also used for hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women.
Here is a list of side effects for this what looks to be synthetic estrogen pill
The bloating, nausea and migraines all scream of estrogen dominance. Migraines can lead to more serious health issues – so I would go back to your doctor and let him/her know this pill is putting your health at risk.
I have not heard of any pill changing FSH levels. And you did not have two periods a month – you had one period with break through bleeding around the time of ovulation. That may be due to FSH – but it may also be due to low levels of progesterone and and estrogen pill is only making that worse. Look at everything that the pill has triggered and during the early days of marriage when you and your husband should be having the days of your life.
Can you get natural progesterone cream in Pakistan? I now you can order online. And whatever you do – do not let anyone convince you to go on synthetic progesterone. That is even worse.
I would try a natural progesterone cream or seeking out the advice of an endocrinologist or fertility doctor. The pills are only further messing up your endocrine system and not going to help you with fertility. CEMCOR is a great resource for understanding progesterone’s relationship to fertility.
Just so you know the same type of protocol is used in this country. Synthetic hormones are harmful to the body PERIOD.
Stay in touch and let us know how you are doing. My belief is that if you just relax withing the rhythm of your new marriage – that you will ovulate on your own. Stress and new circumstances can throw off ovulation… I do not think you need to be medicated for that.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
PS – you do not want to fool around with migraines. I cannot stress that enough.
Hello, I am 37yrs old and all of my symptoms started about 9 yrs ago after the birth of my second child. I have not been on birth control since then because we could not find anything that could stop me from constant bleeding. After visits with therapist and psychiatrist I have been on different antidepressants and I don’t seem to get any better. ‘My OBGYN suggested that I have a histerectomy in order to stop the up and downs. I do not wish to this since I don’t see the need. The week to 12 days before my cycle are the worst. My anxiety and panic are super high, I snap at anyone because I am on edge. I have mentioned to many doctors that my symptoms are completely related to my cycle. But they don’t get it and just give biethcpnteol pills or antidepressants.
How can I do something that will heal me?
Hi, Amie – I am so glad you reached out. No you are not going to get better with antidepressants – that is only a mask not a solution. And a hysterectomy – well, although I am not a proponent in some cases, women do find them helpful.
I am sorry you have been suffering from 9 years. This is my take. Nutrient depletion after two pregnancies. It is is very hard to replace what is given to birth beautiful babies with our diet these days. Your babies take every micronutrient you have – amino acids, enzymes, vitamins and minerals and you are left with what is left. Which in most cases these days is nil to none.
It is possible that you have developed PMDD – Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder – a more severe form of PMS – and often misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder. I happen to sit on the BOD of the National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Order (NAPMDD) – so many women develop PMDD post pregnancy. There are many support groups and pages on Facebook as well. And their web site has a great deal of information and education about the highs and lows you are experiencing.
Your intuition is correct birth control pills and antidepressants are only going to exacerbate the problem in the long run. There are two things that I will suggest – one is the EMPowerplus Q96 on my site to build your nutritional reserves.. and no I am not making any money on this… since I am not good at this type of business… and the other is natural progesterone cream – also known was Wild Yam cream at the health food store. This cream contains natural progesterone and should help with the heavy bleeding. The EMPowerplus will help with that as well. However, you can also purchase bioflavonoids at the health food store and that will also help with the bleeding since it strengthens uterine capillaries as well as blood vessels etc. The EMPowerplus contains bioflavonoids as well. I use the supplement daily and it has been so beneficial.
Hysterectomy should be a last resort… nutrition and progesterone first…
Hope this helps.
Hormones regards,
Leslie
I found your article very helpful. I was taken off Premarin and put on estradiol anxiety and weird feelings in my head are worse. I wake up to panic and or anxiety it’s worse for a few weeks then gets better. I was better on Premarin. I’ve never had anxiety and this weird feeling in my head not excessive weight gain until put in estradiol. I have severe hot flashes. I go to naturalist as he has done a one month sputum test on me I pray he has answers for me as I can’t keep going thru this alone. I have God, but alone and thts very hard and insomnia so bad. And weight gain and don’t eat.
Hi, Karla – not sure how old you are… but am thinking combination of nutrient depletion and and progesterone deficiency. Estradiol – a synthetic estrogen can exacerbate symptoms of anxiety. HRT is not healthy for women. PERIOD. Side effects outweigh benefits. The real culprit is hormone imbalance. Insomnia also a sign of estrogen dominance. Please try and get some Wild Yam natural progesterone cream at the health food store and see if that helps.
And also consult with Dr. Michael Platt – http://plattwellness.com – he is a fabulous resource for what you dealing with. Has written extensively about benefits of progesterone.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi , I’ve suffered anxiety for a few years. Last year I got bloods took and it came back i was post perimenopause yet this year it was all fine. I am 38 and have now just come of cilest birth control and I feel so low because of feeling anxious and thinking constantly. I feel exaughsted, I don’t know what to do or take to help this, I was prescribed antidepressants last year and couldn’t take them I made 11 days of hell then came off them as I woke up at 4 am every morning wrenching I felt like I was crazy. I do shake a bit when anxiety through the roof I feel gittery and get palpitations I’m very irrational at times which scares me I have 2 boys and I can be quite snappy and flip which isn’t setting a good example but at times i feel uncontrollable. Please help I don’t have much look at the Dr , I got told to give it 6 months after coming of birth controll .
Hi, Michelle – I am so sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you. Yes you are probably going through perimenopause… Antidepressants are not going to take care of it… and if your doc says give it 6 months – when you know it will be 6 months of hell – get another doctor. I suggest trying natural progesterone cream which you can get at the health food store… and if that does not help I would seek out an endocrinologist. Endos are trained in hormonology – doctors are not.
Also after having two boys you may be nutrient depleted – find a good multi-vitamin and start that immediately. And also check out the National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder site – http://napmdd.org – there is a lot of great information there. You are not alone. Thousands of women (and probably so many more than that) are experiencing what your are going through. There are many support groups for PMDD on Facebook and I think that this sounds like what you may be experiencing.
Hope this helps.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Not sure if you will see this since the article was written in 2009 but thought I’d give it a try. Ive been diagnosed with pcos and never had any physical or mental symptoms other than my hair falling out. Now since I had my 3rd baby nov of 2015 I have been dealing with severe anxiety non stop 24/7. I’m not on any meds because I just simply don’t feel they will do anything for me other than make my symptoms worse. What do you think I should do? I think it could be hormonal since I only have one ovary. And since I had the baby my periods have never been the same. I just really want relief so I can enjoy my life and family. Please help! Thank you..
HI Bety – so glad that I did see this.
Please read this article posted by my colleagues at Hormones Matter – Thyroid Hormones, Mitochondrial Functioning and Hair Loss
That being said – I will now provide you with my version on what is happening. You might be experiencing postpartum depression or PMDD – premenstrual dysphoric order. There are many groups on Facebook that provide support to mothers with these issues. Also please check out this organization that I belong to – National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.
Your severe anxiety could be due in part to low progesterone levels – especially since you have one ovary. I would purchase Wild Yam cream at the health food store and apply as directed. Severe anxiety is also due to estrogen dominance – and we are surrounded by xenoestrogens in our environment. Hair loss is also known to be a result of low progesterone levels. And it will come back when the body has what it needs to heal.
Please eliminate as much plastic in your life as possible. And do not microwave in plastic… it sets off a chemical firestorm that we cannot see, smell or taste. And ditch the plastic water bottles. They leach BPA – estrogen mimickers into the water or liquid.
If the natural progesterone cream makes a difference then I would do a teleconsult with this doctor – who I highly respect – Dr. Michael Platt – http://plattwellness.com. He is an expert in natural progesterone and has developed his own cream with 50% more progesterone.
Now let’s get down to some common sense. You have had 3 babies… And where do they come from? No, not the stork… but from every single ounce of micronutrients in your body – (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes.) It is getting harder and harder to replace those vital nutrients that affect our mental/emotional and physical health through our diet – most of which is made up of processed foods.
After 3 pregnancies I can guarantee you that you are nutritionally depleted. And you need to replace those micronutrients. If a car runs out of gas – it will not move right? Well, the same can be said for our body. When we run out of fuel – we breakdown. And out mental/emotional health is always the first to go.
I highly recommend this company – they are science-based and have developed a perfect combination of micronutrients that have helped tens of thousands of people with bipolar depression, anxiety and depression. Women with postpartum depression have used this supplement for years and bounce back to their normal selves.
http://truehope.com.
If you cannot afford to use them – find some organic micronutrients that are similar. And you will feel better immediately.
Give your body what you gave to your beautiful babies – the nutrients of life.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
I have a question, I’m 41 and I had a full hysterectomy at 17. I had never even started my period. I have had no hormone Eola cement in my life. Can you tell me what this would do to my mental state? I can’t seem to etc people on understand I can’t ontrol my moods they just happen. I have yet lost another relationship due o lack of knowledge and understanding. I need them to know I can’t help the anger paranoia sadness tiredNess crying it’s alot. Can you help
Hi Jonie – I am so sorry to hear your pain and loss…. not sure what Eola cement – Try two site – http://truehope.com for a nutritional supplement that helps with anxiety, depression, paranoia and sadness. It is a lack of micronutrients that affects our brain chemistry – which is why you cannot control your moods.
Also check out this site – http://napmdd.org. The National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. They offer a lot of advice for PMDD – which is something you might be experiencing on a cyclical basis.
Hope this helps.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I had a miscarriage, then got pregnant three months later. I am 42 had a baby 2.5 years ago. I started suffering scary thoughts about hurting my baby when I was 6 months pregnant and I went for help two weeks after the first thought. Never got much in the way of help at all the doctors call it harm OCD ppd ppa ajustment disorder.. but it feels like a hormon thing to me it gets worse about week before my cycle. Gets a better. My cycle is not on time every month but pretty close..can anyone help. I am going to add to this if I may( HOW ON GODS GREEN EARTH DO YOU GET YOUR HORMONS TESTED) they just tell me they can’t test for that because hormones are to sensitive and it wouldn’t make any sense because they change so much. I have very scary harm thoughts and I am scared to death to be alone with my daughter… this is no way to be a mother. I might have some sleep issues and middle aniexty before she was born but nothing that really caused me concern. What happened to me. And why can’t any one help me.
Hi Cindy – what you are experiencing is postpartum depression that could lead into PMDD. Take a look at this very valuable web site. – http://napmdd.org. There are thousands of women in Facebook support groups who suffer from premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Most of them experience this post-pregnancy.
Now for immediate – relief – suggesting that you get some Himalayan salt (packed with minerals) and start using that liberally on your foods. It has a much better taste that table salt… more on this in a bit.
The other suggestion is to get natural progesterone cream from the health food store – you can get the salt there too and start applying the cream as directed. When you are pregnant you progesterone levels increase significantly (10x’s normal) and when pregnancy ends the levels go back to where they were pre-pregnancy. For some women it is like free-falling off of Mt. Everest. If you had low levels of progesterone prior to pregnancy that is what you will have now.
You doc is right hormone levels do change throughout the month. Glad to hear him admit that. On the other hand – it is not the levels that are important it is the ratio between estrogen and progesterone that is crucial. Most of us are estrogen dominant because of our exposure to plastics and other estrogen mimicking compounds in our environment – like shampoo, laundry dryer sheets, perfume, sunscreen, water, air, food, birth control, household cleaning solvents.
Now here is the other deal. 42 is on the older side of having kids… and that means over time you (all of us) deplete nutrients. During pregnancy the developing fetus takes every available micronutrient vitamin, amino acids, minerals and enzymes. You are left with what is left. And for most women that is not enough and they suffer from anxiety, depression and other behaviors.
You need to start replacing those nutrients and they will not come for your food sources… not even organic foods. Our soil no longer has minerals left. Which is why I suggested Himalayan salt. And most importantly all of these micronutrients need to to be ratio with each other to function optimally.
The product I recommend is the EMPowerplus Q 96 on my web site.
I have worked with many women who fear the same about self-harm or harm to their child. Following these suggestions will help as it helped them. And please, please know that these feelings are not who you are or who you have become… they stem from a biochemical imbalance – and nutrient depletion that can be corrected.
There are a lot of great resources on the NAPMDD web site. Please make sure your visit that as well.
One last thing – at 42 – you may also be transitioning into perimenopause… hard to say – but that hormone shift can be hard on women too.
Please stay in touch and if you feel like you are in crisis… do not be afraid to reach out and get some help. Do not be afraid of the stigma. Get help. Some women have their husbands or mothers or friends take their child when they are in crisis. Do what you need to do… but taking the progesterone and the minerals should help immediately.
Please check into this doc’s web site. His has written extensively about natural progesterone for anxiety etc. http://plattwellness.com
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I had a miscarriage, then got pregnant three months later. I am 42 had a baby 2.5 years ago. I started suffering scary thoughts about hurting my baby when I was 6 months pregnant and I went for help two weeks after the first thought. Never got much in the way of help at all the doctors call it harm OCD ppd ppa ajustment disorder.. but it feels like a hormon thing to me it gets worse about week before my cycle. Gets a better. My cycle is not on time every month but pretty close..can anyone help
BTW – having a miscarriage is a sure sign or low progesterone… that hormone is needed during pregnancy to maintain the uterine lining and protect the baby. It is also needed post-pregnancy to prevent heavy menstrual cycles. How are your bleeds?
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi… now-most ‘mental’ problems are being related back to hormonal balance… have been scouring the net since I collapsed 18 months ago…. 63 yrs of hell-all hormonal… I collapsed after ‘another’ antidepressant poisoned me.. I broke out in disgusting weeping rash over my left leg, blew up like a balloon and barely functioned…. I have discovered bioidentical hormones and after 5 x weeks I am able to get of the house approx 3 x times a week..I am actually walking…Slowly getting off antideps/sedatives.. Even people who ‘hear voices’ etc have had it stop when hormones have been balanced…Mental illness is on the rise.. Actually-all the chemicals in our bodies are affecting our hormonal balance…No wonder the western world is getting sicker..
Hi Ingrid – Thank you for sharing your experience. You are absolutely right it is the chemicals and the heavy metals that are affecting hormone imbalance and your mental/emotional and physical health. The stats on women’s health in this country are appalling.
It is so important that we use passive detox methods and increase out micronutrient intake so that we can heal. Drugs are not the answer. A toxic body leads to a toxic mind. What is going on in our country is appalling.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hi there, are you still providing support? Thankyou, Shontel from Australia
Yes – always providing support Shontel. I was at a conference last week and came back exhausted so am behind in offering consults and responding to comments but am always here for support.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I am having some issues with a hormonal imbalance and I’ve found this website to be very helpful in answering some questions.
I have been on birth control (Yasmin/ Ocella then LoEstrin FE) for the past 10 or so years. In January, after speaking with my doctor, I decided to come off of it. I had my normal period in February after stopping and I did not get my first “real” period until the middle of April. I figured this was totally normal. My next period didn’t come until the end of May. Two nights prior, I couldn’t sleep and I felt like my whole body was tingling and I couldn’t relax. Normally I am the complete opposite. I am very relaxed and could sleep all day! This was weird for me and it turned into anxiety and I wasn’t sleeping for weeks. My PCP prescribed me with ambien and Zoloft, which I was scared to take. It was only a few weeks later that I realized it could have been a hormonal issue. I was scared and immediately got back on LoEstrin. I feel constantly fatigued but cannot sleep, I have no energy which makes me depressed and I have not been able to breathe normal since June!
I was diagnosed with fibrocystic breasts back in January at my yearly examination which I have found to be related to estrogen dominance. My breasts have completely shrunk since then and I cannot even feel the cysts anymore. Could this issue I’m having be from low estrogen levels after stopping birth control? After not getting my period in August (and still having irregular periods May-July) I decided to get back on Yasmin because I know it was fine for my body in the past and I figured a higher dose or hormones was what I needed. I just feel as if this is something hormone related and not anxiety or depression. I have never had anxiety or depression while I was on birth control. I am sure that it does not help that I am switching my prescription so many times because my body is still trying to adapt. I am going to see my doctor next week but they always act as if it has nothing to do with the pill :/. I constantly feel fatigued (even if I do get sleep), I get rushes of adrenaline or tingling sensations in my arms/hands/feet/legs, I get irritated very easily, I can barely concentrate and stay motivated and I am just not feeling well enough to be interested in doing things I would normally enjoy. Any information would be greatly appreciated. My breathing is what has been scaring me the most. It makes sleeping so much more difficult. It’s like a vicious cycle. It is a constant tight chest and when trying to exercise it only gets worse (even just walking). I have already had a chest x ray and I am getting a cat scan done today. I feel if it was anxiety it wouldn’t be a constant thing, just in anxious moments. I am not sure if this is a low estrogen or progesterone dilemma. I just want to know if I should wait out on the Yasmin for two months or so since I just got back on it. It’s already been so hard feeling miserable since June!
Hi everyone – just so you know Alyssa emailed me personally after posting here and I have been sharing information with her that way.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
I’d rather explain or have private chat or email. Really need help. Severe hormone imbalance, depression, generalized anxiety and panic, fibroids n suspected endo, PTSD like stuff three injuries n chronic stress
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
Will watch for your message.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hello!
I just started getting these symptoms a week ago. I haven’t gotten my period in a little over a year. Im 20 years old,not sexually active and have no children. Hormonal Imbalance runs on my mothers side of the family, she also has it. I started with really bad heart palpitations, shakiness, anxiety, I could hardly breath. Now, I’m very spaced out during classes and can hardly focus. The shakiness and nervousness comes and goes. I’m just trying to get help as soon as possible! Not sure if I have a B12 deficiency but I just started taking b12 vitamins on my own. please and thank you.
Hi Brooks – lets see a week ago it was the waning moon and we were all falling down the collective conscious rabbit hole. New Moon is want on Sept. 1 and things should be better in the coming weeks… until the next waning moon. Start living with this and you will understand what is going on with you.
But in the real world… have you had the Gardasil vaccine? Have to get the question on the plate first.
We all have hormone imbalance these days.. but you are right – it is passed from mother to offspring. This does sound like a nutrient deficiency… more like minerals could be B12 – really do not have enough information to go on. Could also be a progesterone deficiency due to estrogen dominance which most of us experience. I would suggest seeing an endocrinologist or consulting with one. The doc I refer to is Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – my favorite endocrinologist and who offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
Also check out the EMPowerplus Q96 on my blog… that is an optimal micronutrients that helps with all the of the symptoms that you mentioned.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hello
I’m 30 and have been dealing with similar issues for a few years now. At 23 I got married and swapped birth control pills. About a month later I experienced what other women on this site have. I was put on Paxil. It took about a year to get to where I didn’t think about my anxiety daily. I’ve not had a period in a few years. Actually I’ve had 2. One lasted 16 days and another about a week and it was so heavy I considered the ER. I’m mostly good to go but currently feeling some anxiety symptoms with rapid heart beat. I’m also starting my form of a period, which is less than spitting and some dark clumping. I just want answers. I can elaborate more but wants dot keep this short.
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Hi Andrea – Appreciate your keeping this short… but still your story is similar to so many other women. Drugs – are not the answer – I know you know that. Not having a period is not healthy.
Am thinking hormone imbalance and perhaps progesterone deficiency. You are way too young to be experiencing this. Where are you located – in the states? I would suggest consulting with an endocrinologist – Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – is my favorite endocrinologist who offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/.
Please check out her site…
Your heavy periods are an indicator that one you may be progesterone deficient. Progesterone is needed to maintain the uterine lining. You did not bleed for 16 days – or a week – you hemorrhaged. There is a difference. I would get some natural progesterone cream from the health food store and see if that helps. Progesterone is also needed for ovulation. So if you do not have enough – you may not be ovulating and therefore not menstruating.
Also you could have a bioflavonoid deficiency. Bioflavonoids are necessary to strengthen uterine capillaries to prevent hemorrhaging – as well as all arteries and blood vessels etc. You can also find this supplement in the health food store.
Please stay in touch and let us know what you are doing.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hello! I am wondering if I too have this problem! For the last 4 months before my cycle starts, about a week before, I get chest pains! I have been to a cardiologist and had ekgs and a stress test and blood work! They all say my heart is fine and that chest pains are caused by anxiety! Except I’m not anxious! Well I am now about the chest pains! The doctors want to put me on yaz BC to control hormones and lexapro for anxiety! But I feel crazy taking these meds! I haven’t started them yet! I was on a low dose BC for several years but stopped it back in May when this all started! Please help! Could this be hormones and has anyone else had chest pain before their period like this?
Hi, Pam – so glad you reached out. I apologize for not getting back to you sooner.
I suggest you seek out an endocrinologist instead of a doctor. Doctor’s are not trained in hormonology… cardiac problems are related to hormones just like anything else. Anxiety is also involved. And going to the doctor around ovulation for a cardiac test is going to bring different results than is you went during the paramenstrum.
Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – is my favorite endocrinologist and who offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
She will get you on track… w/o drugs.
My guess is you are peri-menopausal?
Please respond.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi Leslie,
I’m very concerned that I have extreme hormone imbalance!! From ages 9-24 I was put on antidepressants & anti-anxiety drugs. From ages 13-25 I was on every variety of birth control (pill, depo shot, ring, iud). But finally after realizing how toxic it all was, and after loosing a great deal of hair from Mirena IUD, I got off everything. I can’t tell you what a rollercoaster of negative emotion my whole life has been as far back as I can remember!! Absolute hell! About a year ago, when I took out the IUD, I also started loosing a lot of weight. My beautiful large C cup breasts shrank in a few short months to A cup…and they are still sore all of the time. Really lumpy and sore! My hips and butt are non-existent…lost all the “Good fat” I had…I feel so unwomanly! I have no appetite…I’m only 26 but feel so aged, it’s awful and I’m so sad about my body. On top of all this, long hair is growing under my chin, under my belly button, and around my nipples, it keeps getting darker & thicker! I have to wax it and it’s so embarrassing!! It makes me feel manly and unattractive. I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m desperate for answers! Should I get my hormone levels checked? I’m worried Drs won’t understand… Please help me!
Holy Hormones Honey Kay! That is quite the story… yes it appears you are experiencing extreme hormone imbalance. It breaks my heart that young girls are being put on hormone birth control at such an early age – before their reproductive/endocrine system even has a chance to develop. Thank you so much for reaching out.
Doctors are not trained in hormonolgy so that may not understand all that you are going through… I do have to ask – have you had the Gardasil HPV vaccine at anytime?
I am going to recommend that you seek out the counsel of an endocrinologist. The integrative functional endo I recommend is Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/. She does teleconsults and is a wealth of information. Endocrinologists are well-versed in hormonology and balancing the endocrine system.
Come back if you need more support.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Ive had panic att and anxiety since 6 yrs old. lips an eye wld swell up.then at 16 i saw a wreck.i kept screaming i was dying cld not breath -lost the world around me.had them till i also left a abusive hubby at 21 had a long break thought i grew out of them. now there back racing heart in early morning nausea chills then sweats. so bad I had to go to ER,stress gen anxiety every test come back good. i had a complete hysterectomy at 27 im 58 anxiety or perimenopause take no estrogen. I take xanax 1 mg 4x a day not helping anymore plus prozac. i hate mornings to come. I know what you all feel like its been my life.lost my entire family an friends have only myself an 3 grown kids lost all 3 of my hubbys at a young age. God Bless you all
Hi, LynnAnn – thank you for sharing your heartfelt story. I am so sorry you have suffered so long… but we both know – as well as all the other women who read this – what a common story this is becoming. Are you seeking support?
Please reach out again… and I will be glad to provide references.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
I am on a new therapy for my hormones, my son says I am turning into a teenager. For two weeks I didn’t know if I were coming or going. I even did something so stupid that it caused problems at work.
Hi, Lea how is the therapy going? Reach out if you need some help.
And if the therapy is not working out… perhaps you should seek out an endocrinologist.
Thanks for reaching out.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hello I’m 41 years old and for the last 2 years I have been back and forth to Doctors Appt. After basic blood work my Doctor finds everything is good that going through depression and want to put me on medication. I refuse to take the medication and have been monitoring my periods. For the last 3 months I have notice that 7-10 days before my periods Im a mess. I cant sleep feel shaky all day and worry about everything. I have not been the same and at times feel like Im going crazy. I have a 3 children with a 5 year old being my youngest and feel like when this is going on I cannot function. I feel that the people around me think its all in my head my Doctor wont run hormone test don’t know why? please help I want my life back again. 🙁
Hi, Jackie – thanks for reaching out. Yes, 7 to 10 days prior to menstruation our hormone levels drop and out immunity also becomes more compromised. I applaud you for not going the medication route and wanting to focus on healing instead of masking. Doctors are not trained in hormonology so they are not going to be helpful. You do need to consult with an endocrinologist and the woman I recommend is Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – who is my favorite endocrinologist and who offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
She uses an integrative approach including nutrition and is very knowledgeable. Especially at your age and the number of children you have – I can guarantee that you are nutritionally depleted in some vital micronutrients. It is very had these days to replace the nutrients needed to bring our babies into the world…
I can assure you that Dr. Ochoa-Maya will be glad to give you a hormone test.. even as a teleconsult and that she will tell you as she also told me that it is not the hormone levels.. it is the ratio between the hormones that are crucial. Most of us are estrogen dependent because of all of the estrogen mimicking chemicals in our everyday household products.
This is not all in your head it – is real. Eve Ensler wrote in her book “In the Body of the World,” “Hysteria is a word used to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.”
On the other hand what is going on is all in your head…. crazy huh? But from a biomedical standpoint. Your brain also known as the “motherboard” is lacking in the vital micronutrients needed for hormone production and that transition into menopause. Many, many women are endocrinally whacked out by the time they get to this phase in their life. Nutritionally depleted and worn down from not living with their hormone cycles.
Something that you might want to try is to get some natural progesterone cream and apply that on a daily basis. See if that helps – particularly during the premenstrual phase.
Another doctor I recommend who is a pro at understanding progesterone therapy is Dr. Michael Platt – http://plattwellness.com
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I’m 42 I have anxiety, and cyst in my breast and plus my PMS fixing to started in about a week or sooner my breast hurts every month but this time hurts more then ever. It’s my right breast. I been having cyst 10 years. ( 2006 ) I got checked for breast cancer can it came out negative about 7or 8 months ago. Can you please tell me why my breast hurts this bad ?? Please ?
Hi, Wendy – I am not sure why your breast hurts so much… but I can suggest that it may be due to estrogen dominance… which my also be behind the cycles.
I would suggest doing a teleconsult with this doctor who is a leader in progesterone cream therapy. Dr. Platt offers teleconsults. If you want to test the waters yourself, get some progesterone cream from the health food store and apply as directed. See if that will make a difference. But the cream is just a temporary fix. What you really want to do is to get your hormones in ratio/balance so to rid yourself of anxiety… (also may be due to estrogen dominance.
If you are going to seek out professional help closer to home – make sure you see an endocrinologist. They are trained in hormonology.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hormone imbalance turned me from being my happy go lucky self to a suicidal mess in literally 3 days… Beginning of Feb I took an antibiotic while on my period. It had made my usual 4 day period last 9 days. I started the antibiotic 3 days into my period and on the 6th day I started feeling really weird. I felt generally sad, and just out of it. Eventually the sadness was accompanied by day long anxiety, and by day long I mean ALL DAY. I woke up with it and went to sleep with it (when I could get to sleep…). My period had gone completely off track and I would bleed a few days randomly until March when I had a normal length one that was extremely painful and was accompanied by excruciating anxiety. After that my period disappeared for 2 months. During this whole time I have been experienced anxiety, depression, mood swings, jaw clenching, dizziness, derealization, night sweats, poor concentration, memory loss, fuzzy thinking, and fatigue. My doctor, along with a few want in clinic doctors and hospital doctors were no help and kept giving me antidepressants and birth control prescriptions. One of the really bad days out of desperations I filled one of the prescriptions which was for Effexor and Aitivan. Took the stuff for 3 days when I said “fuck this, they need to figure out what is wrong instead of just cover it up” so I threw the rest of that stuff in the trash and went to a naturopath who did a punch of tests. I eventually came across something online about hormones causing anxiety. The fact that my period was also messed up led me to believe this might be what is going on with me. I took this thought to my naturopath and in a heartbeat he gave me a requisition to get my hormones tested and what do you know, I have low Estrodiol thanks to the antibiotic I took as well as the birth control I stopped taking months earlier. 2 weeks ago I finally got me period, it only lasted 2 days but I got it! I have a feeling it had somehting to do with the hormone stimulatin accupuncture I got done. Starting a week ago we are working on naturally re balancing my hormones and I hope to god this works and they get back on track. I want to feel myself again so badly, I am 23 with a 4 year old son and this had really done a number on us. The depression and anxiety got so bad I was bed ridden and suicidal most days. My boyfriend had to take time of work to stay with me and help out with my son. I slowly am feeling better but I will forever be amazing at how much hormones can change a person. I thought I was going crazy, never in my life did I ever think I would be bedridden with suicidal thoughts…. I am so glad I can put a name to what I have been going through now. I have to admit though I am a little scared my hormones will never be the same which in turn will keep me from never being the same… Trying to stay positive while waiting to see if I get my next period but the hormones right now are obviously making it a teeny bit hard lol…
Hi, Vanesha – what a brutally honest – yet profound post. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Most of us have no idea of the importance of hormones and how they create the symphony or mash that we call life – right?
I am taking an excerpt from an article I wrote years ago – to share how profound our hormones are.
Hormone Imbalance- The Silent Epidemic
Our bodies are comprised of an exquisite network of communication, and functioning properly, provides us with a sense of peace and well-being. The communication network is a
transfer /relay of signals from the brain through the nervous system to every cell in the body. Not only is our body communicating internally with every cell within, it is also receiving communication signals from external stimuli, interpreting those signals and forwarding that information through the nervous system to be received by every cell in every muscle and organ in the body.
This communication network is known as the neuro-endocrine-immune system or the “NEI Super System.” The internal and external signals are relayed by chemical messengers, seeking cell receptors to relay their message.
When the signals go awry, are misinterpreted, or the messages not received, the cells are left in a state of confusion. Think of it this way – when you pick up the phone to make a call – and no one is there to answer, your message does not get relayed – and the intended recipient may not get the vital information you were attempting to share. Or if there is too much static on the call, the cell receptor may interpret the message differently than what was originally intended.
Hormones are the body’s chemical messengers. They communicate with every system in the body and they instigate and regulate all body functions. When hormone imbalance occurs – every system in the body is affected. The root cause of any disease is hormone imbalance.
The endocrine system is one of the body’s primary structures for communicating, controlling and coordinating body functioning. This vital system works in alignment with the nervous system, immune system, reproductive system and the kidneys, gut, liver, pancreas and fatty tissues to help maintain and control the following:
• Energy levels
• Reproduction
• Growth and development
• Internal balance of body systems, called homeostasis
• Responses to surroundings, stress and injury (known as the fight/flight response)
Hormone stimulation is initiated in the brain. In fact, the word ‘hormone’ means to excite or spur on. Hormones are controlled by the endocrine system – a delicate rhythmic system whose foundation is circadian rhythms – biological clocks, influencing physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle.
Most women do not realize that the endocrine system is the primary source for the body’s biological clock. External circadian rhythm impulses enter the body through the pineal gland and travel via hormone messengers to every other organ in the endocrine system. Scientists now know that circadian rhythm disturbance or hormone imbalance can lead to infertility.
Glad you followed your intuitive ‘fuck this shit’ path that led to understanding and healing.
Keep us posted on your progress.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Before 10 days I feel uneasy,feels ballet becomes weighty and week feelings.But when period starts gradually feels well.some times blood clots come out instead of bleeding and some times plain water comes out.i am 27 yrs aged and married.pl advice for remedy.
Hi, Krishna – 10 days before your period, your hormone levels drop and immunity becomes more compromised. Once you get your period, hormone levels begin to rise within a few days which is why your begin to feel better. As to the bloods clots or the plain water – I suggest that you seek medical guidance. And I suggest that you see and endocrinologist who is trained in hormonology.
Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – is my favorite endocrinologist. She offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I forgot to add that this quit coincides with my period, so if this anxiety is caused by progesterone withdrawal, how is a woman supposed to deal with this on a monthly basis? My prescription has me on 21 days/off 7 days. That would cause a monthly bout of anxiety!
Hello,
I know this article was re-posted years ago, but many are still commenting. I hope to also receive some much needed advice. I was diagnosed on 5/4/16 with hypothyroidism. My nurse practitioner prescribed Armour Thyroid along with Bio Identical hormones: DHEA, Tesosterone, and Progesterone. I was not first tested for the additional hormones, just given them for “good measure.” All of my symptoms got worse and I got cystic acne, sore breasts, and worse mood swings. I had no symptom relief. After 16 days on all this junk, I decided to stop all but the Armour Thyroid. I go back for blood work July 7, and I want an accurate hormone check. I fear that I did not need the DHEA, Progesterone, and Testosterone but was given them anyway because “they will make you feel better.” Why do doctors and NPs prescribe these hormones without being sure they are needed? So now that I’m two days off of all but Armour, I am having anxiety. It’s not so severe that I cannot function. But I have the gnawing sense of dread in my stomach. It’s not crippling, but it’s still horrible. How long do you think this will last? Do you think it’s a withdrawal from one or all of the stopped hormones? I feel so overwhelmed and stressed out. I feel like a science experiment. I just want to feel healthy, have energy, sleep well, and have a healthy libido for my husband. I’m only 39, and have not started menopause that I am aware of. Please give me some guidance and advice. I do appreciate it so much.
Hi, April – there are over 800 comments on this post… and I believe that I have answered them all.
You hit the nail on the head with your comment below:
Doctors and NP’s re not trained in hormonology. We need to look at hormones as the chemical messengers that are transmitted back and forth between the endocrine glands and the brain – as we all as to all cells in the body. There is a field for the study of the endocrine system and it is called endocrinology. Those who are trained in endocrinology and hormones are called endocrinologists.
I would like to refer you to Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – my favorite endocrinologist and who offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/. She and I will be presenting together at the National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder conference in Philadelphia in September.
You need to seek out an expert in the endocrine system and hormones – otherwise, the doctors and NP’s are inadvertently going to cause more hormone imbalance and ultimately suggest synthetic hormones, or hormone replacement therapy and psychoteopic drugs – because they do not know what else to do.
Actually, this doc – is also well versed in thyroid issues and you may want to check in with her too – Dr. Joni Labbe – http://www.MojoGirlfriends.com 858-284-9501 -support@mojogirlfriends.com.
She is a thyroid expert.
I have done my best to guide you to the next step that you do need to take.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Leslie, I cannot thank you enough. I’m amazed and in awe at the time and care you take for perfect strangers. I assure you, it means more to us than we can appropriately express. Thank you so much for your guidance. I will definitely be contacting both doctors you referenced. Thank you, thank you; a million times, thank you!
Thank you April – your expression of gratitude has made it all worth it.
I research these doctors before I even suggest them to women.
I hold them in high regard.
Keep us posted on your progress.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Thank you very much Leslie.
I was on many generic pills over the years but the most recent ones I can remember were Falmina and most recently Orsythia. I will definitely look into an endocrinologist, thank you. I am doing what I can naturally to get well enough that I can seek treatment without panicking. It’s such a terrible thing that birth control pills could throw my system so out of control. I regret the day I started taking them as this has totally turned my life upside down. I am hopeful that I can return to my normal functioning self one day, but sometimes that seems like such a far away reality.
Have you ever encountered someone with similar symptoms after taking birth control for many years? I have extreme panic, jittery muscles all the time, and even semi-loud noises make me jump. I get this intense flush of anxiety/pressure that rushes up to my head even doing normal things like watching an exciting television show, or a funny ncomedy skit on tv make my heart race – therefore it isn’t just negative things that makes me panicky or anxious. It’s just absurd and it’s hard to wrap my head around all of this. I seem on edge all the time and my adrenaline feels like it’s so high. Some days are better than others, maybe due to my cycle. It’s hard when doctors just tell me I have anxiety or panic disorder and tell me to try drugs.
Thank you for replying, you’re a great help!!
Hi Kimi – glad you appreciate the information shared. Yes, please consult with a endocrinologist. Your life will start making sense.
Unbeknownst to most women – birth control depletes vital nutrients.
Keep checking in. Let us know how you are doing.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hi there,
I stopped taking birth control pills over 3 months ago after being on them for 10 years or so. I am only 27 years old. Since stopping, I have suffered from extreme and frequent (almost daily) panic attacks, terrible anxiety and depression. I also have dizziness, heart palpitations, weakness and jitteriness in my muscles, chest pains once in a while, light-headedness, fatigue, numbness in legs once in a while, etc… I had mild generalized anxiety while on the pill and some health phobias, but nothing that debilitated my life at all. I had a happy life and was a busy girl with a new career. Now these past 3 months I have gotten to a point where I can’t work, can’t do normal things like simply driving by myself, and have a hard time leaving the house some days without a panic attack or feeling a flush of anxious pressure in my throat/head/eyes (that makes me feel like panic is coming). Not to mention feeling panicky in where I feel like I can’t escape (like a crowded restaurant for example). I am super sensitive to loud sounds, exciting television, or even reading about my health or anxiety sometimes makes me feel like I’m going to panic. It’s so extreme and I can barely handle any stimulation some days and have to turn my phone off and sit in my room/house. I feel like all of this has to be due to my hormones being thrown off when I stopped birth control because my whole life has turned upside down since I stopped. My blood tests said I have “normal” levels of hormones, and my thyroid came back normal. I’m hoping you have some advice for me as I really don’t want to get on antidepressants or benzos because I want to do this naturally, but some days I’m so anxious/panicky/depressed that I can’t function at all and just want to give up. My cycle last month was 33 days and this month its been 36 and still haven’t gotten my period…is this all because of birth control pills/imbalance hormones or could this be my new normal?! I know I had anxiety before, but this is so extreme that I know these darn BCP’s did something terrible to my brain and I just want my old brain back. Please, any advice you have is a god-send. Thank you!!!
-Kimi
Hi, Kimi – Thanks for reaching out. Please read this article… Birth Control Pills Deplete Vital Nutrients
This is where I would start. Plus you went on BCP’s when your endocrine rhythm was just beginning to mature and it was halted and suppressed by synthetic hormones. What is the name of the pill you are on?
This is not your new normal…. and never accept it as such – and you are right to not want to be treated with psych meds… they will only upset the apple cart even more… (unless of course you need a short-term fix) Never benzos – very addicting and people struggle with them while they are on them and then again from the withdrawal.
I suggest you see an endocrinologist – someone who understand hormones. This is their training. Doctors and gynecologists are not versed in hormonology. I strongly suggest anyone of these docs. They all do teleconsults….
Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – who is my favorite endocrinologist http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
Dr. Michael Platt – http://plattwellness.com/
Dr. Joni Labbe – http://sandiegothyroiddoc.com/
Dr. Diane Hoppe – http://www.drdianahoppe.com/
Dr. Ochoa-Maya will work with you on nutrition as well.
And BTW – she will tell you as she has shared with me that it is not the level of hormones that is important – it is the ratio of hormones. Hormone testing is relatively new… and so many women get reading that their hormones are in the normal but the results are misleading.
I hope I have helped.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi, one month ago I had the depo contraceptive shot. A few days after I came out in spots, which was expected. I then began to feel sick throughout the day and couldn’t sleep at all. After a few days I become extremely emotional and would cry at anything!! I’m not at th stage where I feel anxious at anything. I can be happy one moment and then totally doubt my entire life including my relationship. I’ve been to see my doctor and he’s prescribed me anxiety tablets however they aren’t working. Once the depo shot runs out in 3 months, will be hormones go back to normal? And will I feel happy again?
Hi, Holly – you have had an obvious reaction to the Depo shot. Depo suppressed progesterone and replaces it with a synthetic. A lack of progesterone can cause a myriad of problems including anxiety – and no, anxiety pills are not going to do the trick. You do not want to be miserable (an neither do you want your husband to be miserable for the next 3 months… I would consult with an endocrinologist and see if you can add some natural progesterone to your regime while you are waiting for the Depo to wind down… and the effects are going to be longer than 3 months….
I have compiled a list of doctors I have interviewed and they all do teleconsults – and they all would be able to help you work through this issue.
Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – who is my favorite endocrinologists. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/=
Dr. Michael Platt – http://plattwellness.com/
Dr. Joni Labbe – http://sandiegothyroiddoc.com/
Dr. Diane Hoppe – http://www.drdianahoppe.com/
You do not have to feel this way…. and yes, you will be happy again.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
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Hi, Brenda – Thank you for sharing information about Dr. Eitan and his work.
I did a quick Google search and Dr. Eitan is listed in the WebMd Physician Directory.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi, I have been dealing with symptoms that seem similar to this since last october. I am 23 years old and last year from march-oct didn’t have any periods. I am unsure why they stopped and when i went to the dr they told me to lose weight and just see how things go until they come back.
Then in october last year i had a bit of an anxiety attack moment and suddenly lost weight pretty fast, my period then came back and since then it has been hell.
I have severe PMS symptoms, I get extremely constipated and bloating, my whole body aches and i have extreme headaches and dizzyness. During the rest of the month i am okay. some anxiety symptoms but all manageable with excercise and getting enough sleep. Its like my body just stops working other times. And each one is a bit different.
I wake in the middle of the night having massive panic attacks, i have bad acid reflux, tightness in my chest and feel like im constantly shaking. I have had blood tests and xrays and everything done and it all came back normal. I also have hot flashes alot and just overal feel really off and odd and unwell.
I went to the dr and they perscribed me with antidepressants, i have refused to take them so far as i feel like this must be something else. I would like to feel like myself again soon. I’m getting very sick of this.
Should i have my hormone levels checked?
Please help.
Hi, Elyse – I sit on the board of directors from the National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. Please visit their web site at http://napmdd.org
Chances are it could be your hormones – your diet – your heavy metal load…it is so complicated these days.
I have recommended this doc three times already today and I am going to ask that you reach out to him. http://plattwellness.com.
I would start with researching natural progesterone. His site is a good place to start. http://www.drplatt.com/natural_hormones/platt-pro-natural-progesterone.htm
Also look at this site – Truehope. They have developed a nutritional supplement that feeds the brain the micronutrients it is missing.
A look at these nutrients can also be a reason for many of your symptoms – anxiety etc.
If you opt to have your hormones checked make sure you see an endocrinologist. I recommend Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
She also offers teleconsults. But she can line up the lab work needed.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I have been dealing with un regular hormonal imbalance since I was about 12. When I was a baby I had high hormones I had lumps in my breast when I was a baby The doctors said it was something to do with hormone, and even some time I would bleed from my vagina I did grow up to be healthy but suffered from mood swingsI did try birth controls like the inplant, pills. I did have a baby the pregnancy was healthy. after about 6 months I started experiencing a bad hormonal defect. I want to be a happy healthy young lady who can learn how to manage my hormones and educate myself on healthy habbits.
Hello, Cassandra – I would be happy to help you on your path. But I do strongly suggest your seeking out integrative functional endocrinologist – to help you balance your hormones.
At first glance, it seems you might be experiencing estrogen dominance – with too little progesterone to offset the effects. Once again, I think you should do some serious research and/or seek out the educational advice from an endo – or even a naturopath. It is your right to be happy, and healthy – and your body can heal from imbalance given the right tools.
I think highly of these two docs…
Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – who is my favorite endocrinologist and who offers teleconsults. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/
Dr. Michael Platt – http://plattwellness.com/
Hormone regards,
Leslie
This is insane to see all these women who posted on here after I had posted one of the first posts back in 2009. I finally got off Paxil and since 7 years have passed I’ve found out I have endometriosis and a vitamin d deficiency. Also still have the elevated dheas level and was tested negative for cushings disease. Still having terrible anxiety / mood swings , and also have unexplained infertility besides endometriosis which I had removed. Can somebody tell me a good brand of natural progesterone?? Please I need to try something because I refuse to go back on an antidepressant. I’ve been drinking herbal teas on days which anxiety is debilitating. I’m now 29 years old and doctors are still trying to figure out why that level is high in my body.
Ashley – Yes, it is crazy how many women have posted here since your post.
Please listen to Dr. Michael Platt’s radio interview
He has developed his own brand of natural progesterone that contains 50% more progesterone than what can be found in the health food stores. Dr Platt also backed up my belief that women not living with their endocrine rhythm become run down and anxious. PERIOD.
Dr. Platt developed this cream after his mother passed away from breast cancer at an early age. He mentioned on my podcast that Dr. John Lee had it wrong when he developed his progesterone cream with 2.5% progesterone. I countered with – perhaps at that time women only needed that much – but know we are exposed to so many more xenoestrogens the progesterone ratio has to be higher. Dr. Platt concured.
For more information visit his site at http://plattwellness.com
Dr. Platt also offers teleconsults.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I found this website after trying for almost 9 months to figure out what is wrong with me…it started at work 11/17/2014..my ears statted ringing , i felt shakey and started freaking out..i left thinking my blood sugar was low. I ended up quitting my job. I started having headaches that i thought were aneurysms. I had mri ct scans and every blood test under the sun. I saw a hollistic dr and she put me on natural progesterone. However i couldnt keep up with the cost of seeing her. 500 every time. I really think all of my anxiety is hormone related as im 32 and after my last child in 2008 i had my tubes tied and have never felt the same. Im always angry moody and feel like my im a schizophrenic or bipolar freak. Im so out of touch..my cycles are terrible and i have hot flashes like none other. Also the pain i have is unbearable and at my last ogbyn appt ahe told me pain like that is normal. My digestive system is a nightmare too. Im currently on my 2nd month of lexapro and feel like its not working. Im just tired now. Help!!
I am in menopause i am diabetic, have hypothyroidism, have high blood pressure and fast heart rate at times, I am on meds for my low thyroid, my diabetes, my blood pressure, and ativan (generic lorazepam) for anxieties.
I have tried HRTs but it elevates my blood pressure, and heart rate i have tried different types of psychic meds
I have been having trouble with my sleep so my doctor advise me to take 1mg of melatonin with my ativan to help me sleep, I am fed up tired and just not feeling good please write back to me
Hello, Susan – I am so glad you reached out. Not surprised you are not feeling well. Everything you are being prescribed is acting as a mask for a each symptom – not addressing the underlying cause. I am glad to hear you are fed up and tired – it is time for you to reclaim your life. It appears to my that the underlying cause is a combination of heavy metal toxicity, nutrient depletion and hormone imbalance. How can I say that and be so sure? But we are all experiencing the same thing. How the hell will we know what is wrong with us unless we clean out the have metals and toxins in our body – replace our nutrient deficiency with essential micronutrients that can reach the cellular level and start living with cycles.
Now a doctor is not versed in this type of knowledge. An endocrinologist is trained in hormonology. All of your endocrine organs as well as every cell in the body receives hormone messages that either create health or dis-ease and imbalance.
My fav endo is is a functional integrative doctor, Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/. She does tele-consults and will work with you on healing – not medicating.
Here is a link to a radio interview with her.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I can sympathize with every person on here. I, too, suffer from an extreme hormone imbalance. Mine started 3 years ago after I suffered a miscarriage and had to have a D&C procedure. I didn’t know what was going on with me. I was put on medications for anxiety and depression. I literally felt like I was losing my mind. It was very scary. Last year I met a very good doctor who connected the dots and placed me on progesterone. I have to admit I am about 70% better than I was; however, I am still having issues. My cycles are all screwed up now, sometimes I will get 2 cycles a month. I get extreme heart palpitations, anxiety, nausea, etc. I do feel the progesterone helped me somewhat, but I think I need to get rechecked now. I am thinking maybe I need to see a hormone specialist rather than just an MD. It definitely does get discouraging at times though.
Hi, Leslie – yes, it is amazing how many women have found this blog post.
I think you are right…. I did email you about Dr. Michael Platt, who I interviewed on my radio show…
However, perhaps you may also need to consult with another specialist – an endocrinologist who I rely on and who I have interviewed many different times.
An endocrinologist is well taught in “hormonology” – doctors and gynecologists are not.
Hope this information is helpful.
Please stay in touch.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Dear Leslie,
I have what I believe may be a hormone imbalance. I have only just stumbled across this information but all my symptoms point to it being a possible hormone imbalance.
I have been trying to sort this out since I had my little boy 6 years ago. I have tried everything I can think of but unfortunately I was only focusing on my chronic insomnia rather than all the other symptoms I had, I discounted them as being related to the insomnia or not important. I have chronic insomnia and I only sleep for a few hours a night if I a lucky, I have anxiety which can be quite severe at times, brain fog (hard to think things through clearly or even recall simple words sometimes), fatigue that makes day to day functioning very difficult and weight around my middle that refuses to budge. Don’t know if this is worth mentioning but I get horrible PMT and always have. I live in the UK and none of this would be recognised by the doctors here (NHS). I just want my life back, I’d like to feel normal again and be able to sleep. I’d like to be able to enjoy my little boy properly, instead of through and exhausted fog.
I was 37 when I had my little boy and he came at 27 weeks, they found no sign of infection. I didn’t have a very easy pregnancy and had sever nausea all the time. I think many people would right this off as depression or menopause symptoms but I’m not so sure. I have been to my dr about this and they give me anti-anxiety tablets or tablets for depression none of which have agreed with me. I would love to see what you think and what you would advise.
Many thanks,
Lindsay x
Hi Lindsay – I am so glad you found my site and that you are reaching out. There are many women who suffer from postpartum depression and anxiety. It has gotten so bad the “new label” is maternal mental illness.
Because of today’s diet and lifestyle most women are nutrient depleted going into pregnancy – and hormonally imbalanced. The developing fetus takes all of our nutrient reserve – vitamins, amino acids, and minerals – known as micronutrients – and we are left with what is left. And because are nutritional reserves have been depleted we develop chronic insomnia – weight gain around the middle (estrogen and xenoestrogens), fatigue and PMT.
I am now involved with the National Association for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder . I spoke at their conference in Denver and as you will see I am doing an encore presentation on 9/27. What is interesting about this group of women is that they all experienced PMT before pregnancy which developed into full-fledge PMDD post-pregnancy. It all screams nutrient depletion.
I will be posting the interview I did last night with Dr. Raymond Singer on neurotoxins and chronic illness. Many of the symptoms you have shared may be due to our exposure to neurotoxins – AND ALL OF HAVE – from mold – chemicals in our food, air, water and soil. Most of these toxins are in our homes.
We need to change the language from “what is wrong with me?” to what am I deficient in and what have I been exposed to. Fortunately, I work with a great company called Touchstone Essentials that offers a zeolite mineral detox – (which I love and highly endorse) and a line of organic supplements. These products can be shipped to the UK.
Let’s give the body the tools it needs to heal itself. And you are right – drugs are not the right way to go about it.
I pointed you in the right direction – so you order here or contact me @ leslie@holyhormones.com and I will email you more information. Or you can find similar products in the UK.
One other thing… if you are on Facebook there are many PMDD groups and there is a closed group in the UK. These groups of hundreds and thousands of women. Obviously, women are suffering… and we need to find a way to change that. Education, detox and nutrition are the first steps to recovery.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Quick question.. without going into the horrid details of the past 2 years, I ll get right to the point.. I seem to be backward from everyone else.. The week BEFORE my period is the only time I feel “normal”.. a little more emotional, yes, but anxiety free for the most part. The OCD intrustive thoughts, gone. This continues throughout the first half of my period. But then… it all comes back with a vengeance..by the second week, I am a basket case.. I am unable to take SSRI`s, Not a big fan anyway, but at this point, would try anything to give my mind a rest. Could this possible be due to a sensitivity to estrogen?
Hi, Dana – great question. I am interested in what the trigger was 2 years ago… and why everything shifted. That might explain what is going on now. I have heard of other women who experience a great sense of relief right before their period. You may be correct that this may be due to a sensitivity to estrogen – or just too much estrogen period. The week before your period you might be experiencing elevated levels of progesterone.
I have just been researching estrogen and progesterone intolerance and allergies… and I am still wrapping my head around that one. But before we go there… we also need to explore estrogen dominance. What have you been exposed to in your environment. Xenoestrogens are prevalent everywhere. Plastic is laden with estrogenic BPA. Please whatever you do – do not microwave in plastic… Unbeknownst to most people, microwaving in plastic (which all microwave foods come in ) sets off a chemical firestorm that you cannot see, hear or smell or touch. But it is there. And you experience it with your health and mental health – OCD thoughts, anxiety etc.
Eliminate dryer sheets, perfumes, get organic makeups. Sunscreen contains estrogenic chemicals. Household solvents and cleaners contain these compounds. Stop storing food in plastic. Get rid of everything plastic.
Detox and nutrition are the two most important things we can do for ourselves. Please check out the Pure Body from Touchstone Essentials on my web site. Gets ride of positive ions in the body – including BPA. And then look at the EMPowerplus Q 96 – works like a dream (25 published studies) for anxiety, ADHD, OCD etc.
Glad you are avoiding SSRI’s.
Please email me @ leslie@holyhormones.com if you want more information.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hey, I’m Mimi…umm..im 28 years old and for the last two years I have suffered from massive mood swings. I’m talking…my mother wanted to have me committed because she swore I was going through menopause and I just wouldn’t accept it. I moved out of her house and have been suffering massive anger, anxiety and depression for almost 4 months now. The crazy thing is that my worst times are during the month and around ovulation, but, on the first day of my period, its like a soothing blanket was dropped over my sensitive nerves and I am so happy, no anxiety or depression…its like my cycle is backwards. The week leading up to my period I am a nervous, angry, depressed wreck…then my period hits and I feel elated.
My kids suffer the most. They want me to come play, but, I’m so depressed and sluggish and irritated through the month that I don’t want to. I want my old self back! I was such a happy, life as the jokester kind of girl…now…now, I’m this miserable shell of who I used to be. My doctor checked my “thyroid” and said everything was fine…but she only took one vial of blood and didn’t even understand what I meant when I said I wanted my hormones checked. I’m so confused and scared and I feel so alone.
Hi, Mimi – you have come to the right place. And I can provide you with a network of women who are experiencing similar monthly cyclic symptoms. A new organization has been formed called the National Association for Premenstrual Dysphorder (PMDD). More and more women are coming together on this issue. We just had a conference in Denver earlier this month (August). Please check out http://napmdd.org.
If you are on Facebook there are dozens of PMDD groups with thousands of women. So you are not alone… you just did not know what you had or where to turn. I say this because it is so hard to see women suffering – from extreme hormone imbalance that is causing inflammation and depression. There are many reasons for this – but it seems that our exposure to the chemicals in our environment – including pesticides, GMO foods and glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup. My interview with Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America on “Glyphosate Poisoning of our Children” speaks to environmental toxins and hormones.
Now as to your doctor, if they are a GP or an OB/GYN they are not trained in understanding hormones. Endocrinologists who are trained in the endocrine glands and hormone signalling – are who you need to see. Make sense?
If you do not have an endo in your area, my favorite functional endocrinologist, Dr. Margarita Ochao-Maya in NH offers teleconsults. I have interviewed her on my radio show many times. Just copy her name into the search button on the will come up.
And lastly, I will be doing an online presentation for NAPMDD on Sunday Sunday Sept 27 @ 10:00 am MT. The title will be “Understanding Your Mind, Mood, and Hormone Cycle.” Maybe you could attend that…
Just to let you know I highly endorse the products on my site… and I have posted about them many time. Women need to detox and we all need to build our nutritional reserves.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
PS Amanda LaFleur who is the executive director of NAPMDD will offer a warm welcome.
Click on the Find Support button – and you will find all of the support groups that you need.
If anyone else on this thread feels like they need more support in their life – I highly suggest visiting http://napmdd.org
For years I have been dealing with many symptoms a week to 2 weeks before menstruation. . Migrane headaches, brown spots on my face, weight gain, depression, lethargic feeling, moodiness & anxiety. I went to my gynecologist numerous times and was diagnosed with pmdd and told to change my diet. I feel like my life is nothing 2 weeks out of the month and once I start menstruation I feel normal. Do you have any suggestions of how to fix this?
Hi, Sheila. Of course, I have suggestions on how to “fix” (heal) your hormone imbalance.
I would love to share them with you. As I have been sharing with so many other women over the years.
Please email me @ leslie@holyhormones.com and provide more details of your life.
I have a feeling you are way too young to be feeling like this.
Without knowing more, my instinct is screaming estrogen dominance. Just like most women are experiencing these days.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I am 43 year old mother of 7. During the third trimester of my last pregnancy, I suddenly began having. OCD, intrusive thoughts, having never experienced this in my life, I thought I was going completely crazy ( still wonder about my sanity from time to time). 19 months later, with 4 months of therapy, I am still struggling. I often feel “out of it”, anxious and still experience full blown panic. My memory is shot, and I’m sure my 19 month old is able to concentrate for longer periods than I! I have been told I am perimenepausal, and that my estrogen levels are ” high” but offered no assitance. I have suffered from anxiety my entire life, but never like this, my mind is consumed with it. I spend my days either wondering if I am going crazy or frantically searching for an answer. I was diagniosed with Rocky mountain spotted tick fever a few years ago and have had a very low tolerance to medications sense. I have known every SSRI known, but have been able to take them. I am a religious person, so praying helps, but I am so tired of never feeling like myself. I am cinvenced this is hormone related, but am getting nowhere with my obgyn. I’m desperate!
Hi, Dana – I am so glad you reached out. You do not need to be suffering like this. A 43 year old mother of 7 is not “crazy” she is nutritionally depleted. PERIOD.
How are you even replacing those vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes that each baby needed from YOUR BODY to become a perfect creation. You are left with what is left over from your nutritional reserves which it appears from your post – that you have very little.
We have to change our language from ‘what is wrong with me?” to “WHAT AM I DEFICIENT IN?”
Your brain demands oxygen and nutrients to function optimally. When it does not receive that it stops functioning. It cannot function. Just like your car stops functioning when it runs out of gas. Depression, anxiety, memory loss are all signs of a brain/body that is run down. And you are so right – this is all hormone-related.
If you estrogen is high – that means progesterone is low… and you need that especially if you are perimenopausal. You have a double whammy going on.
You might try some natural progesterone cream for immediate short term use. You can get that at your health food store.
Please contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com and I will be happy to guide you back on a path of happiness and feeling like yourself.
Please take the time and read this.
So glad you stayed away from the drugs.
Hormone bless,
Leslie
Hello Leslie,
Thank you for your reply regarding my daughter. In answer to you question no she has not had the gardasil vaccine, I refused to let either of my girls have that one.
She currently eats quite a lot of carbs and fish with crisps and chocolate thrown in. These foods she trusts to not make her sick. She has panic attacks and gets very frustrated and emotional. All the doctors seem to be concerned with is her weight and the need to increase it. She is very slim but that does run in the family.
My pregnancy was fine and she was 7lb 1oz born. I feed her for ten months, she could not keep formula milk down. She does not like dairy products.
So glad to hear from you again Alison. And am very glad you are #VaccineEducated and refused the #Gardasil vaccine for your daughters. There are many of us who are concerned. And the number of adverse reactions being reported on VAERS is closing in on 40,000 – with an estimated 1 to 10% of the HPV vaccine injured reporting.
Back to your daughter. Am not surprised that the tests are coming back normal. However, your hormone imbalance certainly affected your daughter. No one tells women this when they go on birth control. The Mirena coil contains a synthetic hormone called progestin that suppresses your natural progesterone production. Progesterone is a ‘feel-good hormone’ and when you came off the coil – you crashed. Too much estrogen. Not unlike women who are withdrawing from Depo Provera. I have heard from many women who stated they also became agoraphobic. And yes, it does take time to get over that. But it does appear that your daughter may also be suffering from the same hormone-imbalance induced phobia.
Suggestions: See if your daughter will be open to trying natural progesterone cream. it is actually a wild yam cream that contains natural progesterone and can be purchased at the health food store. We can see if she will respond to the progesterone boost. This may also help alleviate the heavy bleeding. You may also want to look at adding a bioflavonoid supplement to her nutrient intake. Bioflavonoids strengthen uterine capillaries – as well as arteries and veins throughout the body. This should also help eliminate the heavy bleeding. Many women have seen a major difference in flow in a month’s time.
Lastly, I am suggesting a strong – evidence based nutritional supplement. The EMPowerplus Q96 on my blog. This product has over 25 independent studies on depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, autism etc – and I recommend it for women who are experiencing these hormone-related issues. It is an amazing product. 36 essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids that target the brain where hormone production begins. It is impossible for anyone to be get the nutrients they need from our food sources – and each generation becomes more nutrient deficient. In addition synthetic hormones are one of many ‘medications’ that rob our body of nutrients. A 1999 study linked a lack of micronutrients to PMS.
Has your daughter had her thyroid checked?
I hope this information is helpful. Am assuming bullying and other attempts to violate/shame your daughter have been ruled out.
Please stay in touch. It is so sad to see someone so young who is suffering. But I have a feeling, sadly, that it will become more and more prevalent.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I’m 21 years old. I have had problems with anxiety before right after I started my period for the first time but I didn’t think anything of it. But a few nights ago while I was at work everything changed. My vision became blurred in my right eye, my face hands and arms become numb as well. I immediately called my fiancées mother to come take me to the er because I knew I couldn’t drive myself. As soon as I walked in they told me I was having an anxiety attack and to try to calm down. They ended up giving me a shot to make me sleep. I don’t know if anyone else has had experiences like this before but it would make me feel a lot better if I knew I wasn’t alone
Hello, LeShea – you are not alone. PERIOD. Speaking of periods – where were you in your menstrual cycle?
You should have all the symptoms (vision and numbness) checked out. But if there is nothing wrong other than an anxiety attack – you can choose two routes: medicate and mask the symptoms until they start getting worse and then increase the dosage or heal. Yes, that is right. Heal. Give your body the nutrients it needs to heal itself.
Your panic attack is an emotional response to your brain signalling that it is starving… not getting the nutrients it needs to function optimally. It is an alarm. I mean don’t you panic when you do not have enough money to pay your rent? Same difference.
The problem is that most women your age are nutritionally depleted because of our nutritionally depleted food sources and the high abundance of GMO’s, processed and microwaved foods. Please look at the link on my site to the EMPowerplus Q96. This supplement contains 36 vitamins, minerals and amino acids that help the brain heal and repair itself. It works for anxiety, depression, autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder etc.
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Hormone regards,
Leslie
Just read all the comments trying to find help forgmy daughter, she is 15 and two years ago when her periods started her life stopped. She was a healthy,happy,enjoying her life,she danced five times a week She started to feel sick just before her periods started and the feeling of nausea has not left her it has just got intensely worst. Her doctor has done all sorts of test,nothing found. No one will discuss hormonal in balance in a teenager. I was not able to take any form of birth control, when I had the merian coil removed after five years I became agrophobic, it took two years to get over that. My daughter no longer dances or goes to school. She only eats certain foods , dislikes going out. Her periods are regular every 26 days and are sometimes heavy.
Any help,advice you can offer will be grateful accepted?.
Hi, Alison – I think you should seek out the counsel of an endocrinologist. You daughter may be experiencing severe hormone imbalance. But I do have top ask you – did she recently receive the Gardasil HPV vaccine?
Her hormone imbalance is totally dependent on your birth control use and your hormone imbalance. You might do some research and try wild yam progesterone cream to see if that will give her the boost she needs to feeling like her self again.
What kinds of foods is your daughter eating?
Heavy periods may be due to lack of progesterone and the Mirena coil – suppresses progesterone. Did you have problems with your pregnancy?
One other thing. Heavy periods may also be due to a lack of bioflavonoids. You can buy these at the health food store. I have suggested them to women before for heavy bleeding and they have worked. Bioflavonoids – help strengthen uterine capillaries as well as all other veins and vessels in the body.
I hope this helps… please come back to me about Gardasil.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hey Leslie, me again.
I’m still obsessively googling everything that’s happening to me, which doesn’t help the anxiety – I’m just scaremongering myself really!
I’m reading articles that make out the ‘steroid’ aspect of the pill that alters the naturally occurring hormones in the brain may not be reversible, please say this isn’t so?
It’s only two weeks since stopping the pill, and the bad days still out way the good, and I know you can’t put an exact time on when I should start feeling back to normal, but once my body starts naturally functioning again I should return to normal right? Or has my brain and receptors and all that been ultimately altered by 9 months of birth control use?
I’ve started taking the vitamin D3 minerals like you said and don’t expect a quick fix, just want to that there’s light at the end of the tunnel? And I haven’t done irrevocable damage to my emotions?
Thanks for taking the time to listen to me, I know you must be super busy.
The body has the ability to heal given the right tools. That is a fact. One of those tools is nutrition… actually what other kind of tool could there be? Please read this article that I have to find the time to post: “The Emerging Field of Nutritional Mental Health
Inflammation, the Microbiome, Oxidative Stress, and Mitochondrial Function”
We have to understand that we are biochemical. Who we are, what we think, how we behave is based on our biochemistry – which is based on our nutritional reserve. The researcher who wrote this article – who I have interviewed and who I will be interviewing again – has stated: “Nutrition should be the primary treatment – medication the supplement.”
And yes, the pills affects on hormone in the brain is reversible. For the most part doctors and psychiatrists are not trained in nutrition. This is the new medicine.
Vitamin D3 – is not a quick fix… it has be restored in the trillion cells in your body. The EMPowerplus is a supplement where you may see significant effects in 30 days. And the longer you stay on it – the more long-lasting effects on every system in your body.
This is the new medicine. I mean really – has anything else really worked?
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I have been getting bio identical estrogen and testosterone for years. Last year I got some swelling (angio edema) about a month after getting my pellets. So I did not get hormones for about 9 months. My T dropped to almost nothing. So in December I got the pellets again. With a new doctor, They tested my progesterone and it was .2. Some I have tried the creams, the compounded pill and now the compounded oral. I have Rage, BAD almost uncontrollable, depression, crying, on and on. I don’t know what to do. Do I keep taking the Progesterone? I think it is making me crazy. I have only been on it for not even a week?
I certainly do not have enough information to go on – to give you the answer you need.
However, I will circumvent that by leading you to this company – Truehope – The Leaders in Brain Health and http://truehope.com and Q Sciences http://qsciences.com.
The brain is the largest endocrine gland in the body – and most of us exhibit nutritional deficiencies in the brain through depression, crying. That is the emotional response to a depleted brain/body. The older you are – the number of pregnancies – your over all health – medications, birth control all play into this. Every morning when you step our of bed you are using vital micronutrients. The vitamins, minerals, and amino acids fuel our bodies. We fill up the gas tank in our cars right? Somehow we have forgotten that our body tank also needs to be refueled.
The brain is where hormone production begins. When your brain gets the vital nutrients it needs… it can balance those hormones – the chemical messengers that go out to every cell in your body.
Please call Truehope ASAP – they just developed a new product: nascent iodine for your thyroid. https://store.truehope.com/products/nascent-iodine-advanced.asp
I was never a proponent of bio-identicals. If the endocrine system is not functioning due to nutritional issues – the body will only absorb so much bio-identicals and then store the rest. So they stop being effective.
We have to take our attention away from what is wrong with me and turn it to “what am I deficient in?” When you can answer that question you can start regaining your health.
Please look at this site on vitamin D3 too: http://smilinsuepubs.com/blog-2/
And this information as well: http://vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency/
Please stay in touch… and always ask more questions….
Yours in Hormone Health,
Leslie
Thanks so much for all your help Leslie. Really brought me some peace of mind 🙂
Ive already ordered some Vitamin D3 vitamins to boost that up. And will certainly look into cooper IUD if it’s non hormonal!
There was no way i was going to go to a Doctor who would probably prescribe me anti-depressants when i knew this was stemming from something I was taking and altering my body. Not a single bit of anxiety in my life before going on birth control.
Thanks for you reassure Leslie, its early days but i’m looking forward to the better days ahead.
Arabella
Hello, Arabella – It is nice to hear from you…. appreciate your responding. There is a wonderful and affordable book on vitamin D3. A must read for everyone…
“Defend Your Life” – an award-winning book by Sue Rex Ryan http://smilinsuepubs.com/blog-2/
Highly recommended.
We need to change our thinking from “what is wrong with me…” to “what am I deficient in?” The latter is the million dollar question – and the answer will heal you.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hi Leslie, I’m from the UK so hope you’re able to help.
My story is that I started Microgynon back in June 2014 but swapped after two months to Yasmin when I noticed my skin broke out in spots.
I was then on Yasmin for about 3/4 months but took 2 packs back to back, had a break week, then did another 2 packs back to back to avoid a period on special occasions. And it was on a special a occasion that my mind just suddenly switched.
I was having a romantic dinner for my birthday with my boyfriend ( had be going out for a year at this point) in November 2014. And all of a sudden, horrible thoughts started racing through my head ‘Do I love him anymore? Do we have a future together? Is there any point?’ All alongside an empty feeling in my stomach, much like being nervous or anxious. This all came completely out of NOWHERE. I am utterly in love with my boyfriend and we plan to move in together in the next year which is obviously exciting and a first for me. The reason I know these emotions, anxieties, moods are not my own is because my rational conciousness is fighting to get rid of them and I’m able, some of the time, to know the difference from my own emotions and these intrusive horrible thoughts. But these thoughts, none the less, hinder my mood and outlook on a daily basis.
I swapped to Loestrin mid November, known for not causing as strong an emotional response ( something to do with the levels of progesterone and estrogen?) and to begin with, felt ok, but not 100% like myself. The nurse also said to buy ‘evening primrose oil’ to maybe help with my emotions. In all honesty, i think it’s cleared up my skin but done little else.
By Christmas 2014, having gone home to spend the holidays with my parents, being away from my boyfriend made me crazy. Our phonecall on Christmas day had me in tears because I missed him so much. For someone who was a month before having intrusive thoughts about the ‘status’ of their relationship, i was now being needy and clingy wanting him to phone me all the time.
My mind now, Feb 2015, has reverted back to those thoughts of how much do I love him, how much am i attracted to him? Whilst i miss him intensely (we live in different cities at the moment) and I look forward to seeing him every weekend, The conflict of emotions is really taking its toll. I am emotionally stable, I’m not going to do anything drastic, but i do not feel like my normal self, and hate myself for not feeling overwhelmed with passion and love for my boyfriend like i did before – and i miss it!
I was planning to start my 4th back of Loestrin as many pamphlets/other pill users/doctors/nurses/websites say that symptoms tend to subsided after 6 months of continuous use (and i have not stuck out a brand of pill for more than 3-4 months) but on Feb 21st 2015 (only last week) I had a really bad bout of anxiety which lasted for a fair few hours. In this time i lost my appetite, heavy breathing and had the nervousness in my stomach again, but far more intense. Right there and then, i stopped taking my birth control as I’m convinced it is causing my anxiety and paranoia. ( Don’t worry, using other forms of birth control for the time being, whilst researching non-hormonal alternatives).
To add insult to injury, the pill has decreased my sex drive which hasn’t gone unnoticed by myself or boyfriend and only adds to the whole ‘do i love him anymore?’ thought if i’m struggling to get into the mood to be intimate. But i can see a connection between starting the pill and down spiral of sex drive and depressive mood within myself.
All in all, the pill isn’t what its cracked up to be. Yes, its there to prevent pregnancy but i really was unaware of these frankly devastating side effects. I was aware of spotting inbetween periods, spots/acne, weight gain, larger breasts and to some extent mood swings – but really not this severe when it is actually changing my outlook on the single most important thing in my life: my relationship.
Can artificial hormones found in the pill actually put thoughts in your head like the ones im experiencing Leslie? I put my story up on another forum and one person goes’ Birth control doesn’t put thoughts in your head. Re-evluate your relationship. maybe you don’t love him any more’. This almost shattered my world because i love my boyfriend dearly and wouldn’t change anything in world, except my depressive outlook. It really is suppressing and numbing my enjoyment of things too. I have so many exciting thing to look forward to this year which i usually, in the build up, get really excited for. But i feel numb to the whole thing. I think this is another side effect of the pill that the anxiety is suppressing my enjoyment for life and events.
I’m one week free of birth control and i have good days and bad days. (The bad days usually come after a night of having a few alcohol drinks – honestly just a glass or two of wine in the evening after work) Whether that’s a contributing factor – im not sure, but it does feel like it. I plan to stay away from alcohol in the next few months as to not aggravate it further.
Any advice, help, guidance you can offer will be greatly appreciated. I just want to know that this will go away (I don’t care how long) and I will return to my normal happy, excited self. I really do miss her.
Thanks for your time.
Hi, Arabella – You did right be going off the pill. It is probable that you were experiencing some mental/emotional side effects. I posted an article not too long ago about women who come off the pill – and the attractiveness of their partner’s faced had changed. The pill after all is a steroid. It suppresses ovulation which begins in the brain – so it may also be suppressing or exacerbating emotions. Everyone is biochemically different.
It seems to be that you were switching back and forth between estrogen and progestin pill – which is kind of like playing ping pong with your emotions. In addition, did you know that the pill can deplete nutrients? And also everyone is deficient in vitamin D3 these days… And one other thing we are deficient in are minerals. Minerals stabilize the brain… Get some Himalayan salt and throw out the iodized table salt that is not good for your health.
Do these things and you should start feeling better. And why don’t you try a Copper IUD (non a synthetic hormone IUD) to use as birth control. You need to build up your emotional status… before you become pregnant – which maybe years down the road – but building a strong nutritional reserve is going to help with your pregnancy – and it does take time.
And to answer your question – this will go away – only if you start healing – not medicating; i.e. with anti-depressants. Will be posting an article about micronutrients and mental health later this week. Stay tuned!
Hormone regards,
Leslie
There have been plenty of articles about fishing changing their sex because of excreted hormones.
Hi,
I’m looking to help people with hormone imbalances as well as raise awareness for doctors by creating a database of cases along with what helps and what doesn’t since there are many variations of imbalance from simple to complex.
I’ve just set up a website and forum about hormone imbalance at:
Site: http://fixhormoneimbalance.com/
Forum: http://fixhormoneimbalance.my-freeforum.com/
Thanks,
Marlies
This has been the worst experience in my life. My fience had hormonal imbalance caused by a tumor in her overy she had this removed and then six months later we concieved and she became sick all the time. We worked together in real estate so I worked she stayed home. She became more and more distant and seemed to blame me for the pain she was in. After my best efforts I decided to draw a line and went to the beach. My hope was she would call come up and we could work things out. Instead she decided that I was not allowed to talk to her ever again. When I tried she involved police and did everything she could to distroy me. She tried twice to put injunctions against me both times were denied. It seems obvious and sad that she is mentally not ok. I miss my friend and know this is not her. I can not help her and it has been hard to know what to do next. The term she is just crazy does not help moving on. This has all happened over the last eight weeks. Glad I found this article I dont know how to help her but at least I know this is a real sickness. She is due in June and I plan to just stay away maybe one day she will realize what she did to someone that loved her. Idk
Hello, Brandon – thank you for reaching out. I can feel your pain… as well, as I am sure others can feel your pain as well. It those hormones… but I can tell you what – if this is going on during pregnancy – it may even be harder afterwards… I am sure I can offer some advice. Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
L.
Hi, I i have just turned 30 and u had my third child last year and 6 hours later I tried to climb out the hospital window, I was having a horrific panic attack this was the first one I had ever experienced and the overwhelming panic made me want to die, which is why I was trying to get out the window 3 floors up, for the next 3 months I suffered panic attacks and obsessive thoughts untill I got the implant.
I was able to do things without the clawing terror in my chest, unfortunately I got very itchy on it so it was removed after only 2 months and I was put on the contraceptive injection it was the worst possible thing because I was so depressed and had to fight the want to self harm I was given antidepressants but they did nothing.
4 months later I took the progesterone only pill and I began to recover an I came off the antidepressants however I got terrible nausea and exhaustion that the doctor stopped it.
A month later I was feeling so much better but then I had a breakthrough bleed and 3 months on no period.
I feel absolutely fine for the first time since before my son was born but I can’t control my emotions, I cry at the daftest things which is new because I’m not an emotional person.
I don’t know what to do to get my body back that I’m in control of it again.
Hello, Louise – so glad you reached out. My sincere apologies for not responding sooner.
You are experiencing a classic case of nutrient depletion – otherwise known as postpartum depression.
Unfortunately, we still have this attitude that the stork brings the baby… and then all is well.
What is really happening is that each pregnancy a woman goes through depletes the body of vital micronutrients – essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids etc. Most women going into pregnancy nutritionally depleted – because we are not getting the vital nutrients from the foods we are eating. And it is even harder to replace them.
Prenatal vitamins in most case are synthetic – and are not readily absorbed by the body. In fact, most supplements we take are not absorbed by the body – they get caught up in the digestive track and are stored not absorbed.
What you are experiencing with your emotional anxiety and tears is nutrient depletion. Your feelings are the emotional response to the neuro-endocrine-immune system’s response to not having the nutrients it needs to function correctly. Add to that the synthetic hormones you have been prescribed – which by the way deplete more nutrients… and you are going to keep sliding down that slippery slope.
Not sure if you breastfed after your pregnancies – but if so, you are depleting more vital nutrients from your body. Right? This is all common sense and women’s wisdom – and the vital missing element in our healthcare.
What you want to do is replace those nutrients so you can trust your body. Everyone else is trying to ‘control’ you with hormones – and if you are not careful – psychotropic drugs, which by the way also deplete vital nutrients from the body.
Please read this information on vitamin D3 – and also check out the information on my blog about the Q sciences products – especially the EMPowerplus Q96. This bio-available supplement that bypasses the digestive tract and gets absorbed immediately into the blood stream has been developed to target the brain – with essential micronutrients to balance the NEI super system. Because the micronutrients are so readily absorbed – over time they start nutrating the body at the cellular level. I have recommended this product time and again for women who are nutritionally depleted post-pregnancy – which is becoming more and more common – and is really a concern.
The synergistic ratio of minerals in this supplement is really what is missing in all of our diets. Minerals stimulate brain function – which in turn stimulates functioning all of the other systems in the body. The brain is the ‘motherboard’ and when the brain ain’t happy – no one is happy right? And that is where you are. And of course, hormone production begins in the brain – which is the largest endocrine gland in the body.
If you would like more information – email me at leslie@holyhormones.com.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Replacing nutrients in your body is safe – no side effects, and you will feel results immediately.
During my second pregnancy at age 29, I developed anxiety attacks, then developed into GAD, which I now take Lexapro for.. I also began suffering from chronic insomnia to this day at age 63. I have now been prescribed progesterone to help me sleep. Could lack of progesterone be the root cause of both my symptoms, especially the insomnia which is quite overwhelming and a serious issue to me. I am now 63 and have just been prescribed progesterone. What do you think? By the way, I am a sugar addict and according to the DSM VI tests taken twice, both had me pegged having borderline personality disorder. My life is a living nightmare with me and my loving husband. Please reply as soon as you can. Thank you so much for reading this.
Hello, Sylvia. Are you on a synthetic progesterone – known as a progestin? Or a natural progesterone. Sounds like you have had a combination of hormone imbalance and nutrient depletion for a long time…. My guess is that you are addicted to sugar – because it makes you feel good….right? But what is really going on is that your brain/body is crying out for the sugar to feel good – because it is not getting the nutrients it really needs. At 63 most of us are nutrient deficient – with the wear and tear on our bodies and the stress of life. Every time you take a breath of air – you are using up micronutrients in your body. Each pregnancy depletes us of vital micronutrients… we fill our car up with gas right – so it will run… what are you doing? Filling your tank with sugar and expecting to run efficiently.
Please check out this company and call them today. They can help you with all you are going through. “Truehope Inc. The Leaders in Brain Health” You will be able to see all of the information on their site that will help you understand what you are going.
You can wake up from the nightmare and walk back into your life with your loving husband.
Please feel free to email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
During my second pregnancy at age 29, I developed anxiety attacks, then developed into GAD, which I now take Lexapro for.. I also began suffering from chronic insomnia to this day at age 63. I have now been prescribed progesterone to help me sleep. Could lack of progesterone be the root cause of both my symptoms, especially the insomnia which is quite overwhelming and a serious issue to me. I am now 63 and have just been prescribed progesterone. What do you think?
I do not think I really addressed your issue about progesterone in my first response. Progesterone will be helpful for the short-term not the long term. Nutrients directed to the brain is what will help health the hormone imbalance and restore your neuro-endocrine-immune health.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hey. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been underweight. I can’t remember too much of what I was like before my parents started fighting, so I can’t say if I was moody before drama entered into the home or after. I hit my brother (because, you know, kids fight), but he told a counseler at school who turned in a story to DHS that I had thrown my music keyboard at him. They stopped by to check on my family, learned from my brother that I didn’t throw my keyboard at him, but they also learned that I hit him in a fight, which led them to the decision that I had a severe anger problem. I got tossed into counseling, put on one pill after another, never being relieved of my stress and depression. They even put me on sleep pills to help with my insomnia and nightmares, but nothing ever helped…My parents ran me down for any little thing, pushing me deeper into feeling helpless and making me feel entirely like a waste of existence at home. School was a great place to get away, but the more time went on, the more sickly I seemed to grow. I struggled to keep down food, and at school, when you get sick, you get sent home, no matter what. After missing so many days, they told me I couldn’t miss anymore or I would fail. I was so broken hearted because I had never wanted to be sent home everyday. My teachers that had encouraged me, told me I could be somebody and do something great with my gifts, shunned me, treating me like a failure who didn’t care about school or my future. My parents pulled me out of school not too long afterwards saying it was what I wanted. Everyone judged me, looked upon me like a failure, and each day was making me worse and worse. Finally, I moved out of my mom and dads. I got my GED with perfect scores, but even then, when I would see my old teachers and try to talk to them, they treated that GED like it was verification that I was a failure, despite my perfect scores. I moved in with my cousins, the father being a preacher. I thought I had found a place of peace, but when my boyfriend broke up with me, I started to cry hard. After only 30 minutes of crying, my preacher asked, “How can you expect anybody to love you when you’re like this?” Everyone insisted I was bipolar or depressed, and wanted me to get put back on the medicine I chose to quit when I left. It didn’t help before. What made them think it would help this time? Now I’m married, and I have a beautiful daughter. Things have been better than ever, but still, I cannot sleep through the night. I get moody, and I struggle with having an appetite. I’ve even turned to smoking marijuana just to eat at times and feel calm and collected, but I don’t want to depend on something like that since where I live, it’s illegal…Nothing else I’ve ever done has seemed to help though…Have my hormones been the problem this whole time, and is there another way for me to feel better?
Windy – I am hugging you. Visualizing you and hugging you. Thank you for sharing your heart-rendering story. I cannot say how much of your experience is directly related to your reproductive hormones… but since hormones are the chemical messengers going to every cell in the body – and the message you were receiving from your family and others – certainly could be affected by the ‘failure to thrive’ environment you were living in.
Congratulations on surviving and finding the love in your life…. and now your baby. I too, had someone in a position of power (a minister by the way) told me that I was ‘incapable of loving’. That is shattering… as a teen. And it was meant to shatter me. Turns out he was a homosexual pedophile – and I was not going to play his shame game.
So the past is the past and the future is the future… and your future has nothing to do with your past. What is going on with you is hormone imbalance. PTSD has been related to upsetting hormone communications….. but that is an aside. You need to replace the nutrients you lost during pregnancy. Micronutrients. Build up your nutritional reserve – amino acids, minerals, vitamins. Holy hormones – none of us are getting the nutrients we need.
This explains your using marijuana… when the brain does not get the nutrients it needs it will latch on to anything that will make it feel good. I highly recommend the EMPowerplus Q 96 on my site – and also vitamin D3. Not sleeping is hormone imbalance. Struggling with an appetite might change when you are getting micronutrients instead of empty calories.
Nutrition is the way to heal and start feeling better. There are 25 published studies on this supplement – that was initially developed for bipolar disorder – but is now being used for PPD, PMS, depression, anxiety, hormone imbalance, ADHD, autism, and as a preventive for Alzheimer’s. Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com and I will be glad to provide more information.
I’m so happy I stumbled upon this article! I’m starting to believe all my symptoms are related to hormonal imbalance. I’m 32 years old and I have been on birth control for 13 years. In college, I was on two different meds for panic attacks and anxiety. After college, I never had any problems until 2 years ago when my pharmacy accidentally gave me the wrong birth control pills without me realizing it. I was already highly stressed with planning my wedding and after taking almost a whole month of the pills, I had what felt like a ‘nervous breakdown’ – night sweats, upset/nervous stomach, terrible anxiety, scary thoughts, deep depression, fatigue, painful sex, confusion, heart palpitations and sweaty hands and feet. After realizing that I was on the wrong birth control, my doctor put me on LoEstrin and anti-anxiety medicine. I didn’t have a period for 3 months and I only took two of the anti-anxiety pills (I didn’t like the way they made me feel). I finally made an appointment with an actual OB/GYN hoping she could help me. She put me back on my original birth control and told me that I needed to incorporate more exercise into my weekly routine. After finally having a period, I started to feel more normal but the anxiety was and still is constantly there. About 8 months ago after reading tons of articles on clean eating, I decided to change my diet. I started eating organic, drinking less alcohol, taking daily multi-vitamins, a probiotic and trying to incorporate more exercise (though it’s tough for me to get motivated). I’ve lost 10lbs since then and I’m at a healthy weight. Just recently after the holidays, I’ve been noticing those symptoms from 2 years ago coming back. I’m so tired of doctors wanting to put me on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. I don’t want to put anymore synthetic chemicals in my body. So here’s my question: just recently I made an appointment with a hormone and health center thinking I could go at this at a different angle. I explained to them my background and they want to run labs on me to test my hormone levels (which have never been tested), thyroid, cortisol, adrenals, GI tract, etc. Do you think it is worth it to move forward? I’ve prayed hard about this and at this point, I’m so miserable that I will do anything to get my body back in balance (especially since I’m wanting to start a family soon). I’m generally a happy person and I love my life! I have a great husband, job, family and friends. I’m tired of suffering from anxiety and not knowing how I’m going to feel every day that I wake up. I would love your opinion! Blessings and many thanks!
Wow – there is a lot here Jessica – you have had quite the journey – and you have done well.
Are you taking any vitamin D3?
How about minerals?
You obviously are experiencing hormone imbalance… most women are.
You can go ahead and have all of these tests – however, chances are they will come back in the ‘normal’ range – because it is not the levels of hormones it is the ratio.
And you are right – you should not start a family until you resolve your own health issues – otherwise you will pass on any imbalances you have to your newborn.
So you have two routes to go – the medical – and there is a place for that –
or holistic – giving the body the tools it needs to heal itself.
I highly recommend the two products on my site – EMPowerplus Q96 which provides 36 essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids to the brain – the largest endocrine gland in the body – and where hormone production starts – and the Touchstone Pure Body Essentials to detox BPA, radiation and heavy metals.
Once you have been on those for awhile – again giving your body the tools it needs to restore its own health and balance – and if you are still having issues, then seek medical assistance.
However, I know that not everyone is ready for this leap – so in that case, I highly recommend you have a tele-consult with Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya – my favorite holistic integrative endocrinologist. http://www.advancedhealthnh.com/. I have spoken with her many times and have interviewed her on my radio show….many times. You can find those interviews on my site.
I really think Dr. Ochoa-Maya can provide you with the missing information you need to be an informed choice about which direction to go with your health care. She is kind, compassionate and caring. if you do arrange this consult – please let her know you find my site holyhormones.com
Please feel free to email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you would like more information.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
hello
ive been tested for diabetes had blood work done and been tested for intolerance to gluten and all came back fine. my scan showed i had odd cysts but they said that cant mean pcos as women get odd ones. I know i have a hormone imbalance as i have really bad cystic acne thats spreading up my face but for 3 years its mainly been jawline and lower cheeks. It normally is a lot worse around ovulation so does that mean its low progesterone and excess androgens?? i use to have a really bad diet of white cars sugar and diet coke no veg,fruit ect. Id replace a lot of meals with diet coke as well as i was working a lot. like litres of the stuff. for a while i have been eating fruits, veg, brown carbs healthy fats ect ( i never use to eat any fat) and my cystic acne is still bad. i have tried to control my stress levels as my symptoms are depression, mood swings, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, hair loss, food cravings of sugar and carbs they have slightly gone but still get them. please can you help me and just tell me what hormone imbalance i have and how and can i cure it?? is it low progesterone as when i was pregnant i got no cystic acne no spots. or do i have excess androgens from my previous diet and can i cure that?? im at a loss i struggle to leave house as my face is so bad and the scars are so bad. i just want to not feel like how i do my body feels so messed up! i am a healthy weight but just want to know if my hormone levels are fine why am i still getting such bad symptoms
Hi, Michelle – How old are you?
Can you please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com so that we can arrange a time to talk?
Would love to be able to help you.
I have many more questions before I can formulate a plan.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Well I’m 29 and I’m have all kinds of symptoms lately and it’s driving me and my fiancé insane. I went to see a gyno bc I was feeling really sick and had a miscarriage a month prior to the visit. So she put me on Estrodial but since I have been on that things have been ten times worse. I’m moody all the time, always crying about everything, having hot flashes when it’s actually cold outside, depression but I’m also bipolar and I’ve been having crazy thoughts that makes me believe that my fiancé is doing things when he’s not. I’ve had four kids and too many miscarriages to count. I just want my life back bc I was so much more happier before all of this started. I just want to fix it but like I said the gyno that saw me put me on Estrodial. Please help me bc I’m going thru hell with this.
Hi, Janet – thanks for reaching out. Do you know why you miscarried? That alone could throw a woman into a hormone mess. I have read plenty of articles about inadequate amounts of progesterone essential for maintaining the uterine lining in pregnancy – along with estrogen – can be a cause of miscarriage. And then your coc puts you in a synthetic estrogen pill – no wonder you feel like you are insane.
Four kids… and multiple miscarriages – time for you to take care of yourself before you bring more babies into the world. Every pregnancy you go through depletes your body of vital micronutrients: vitamins, minerals and amino acids… leaving you with whatever is left…. and in this case not much. Women have to have a stable nutrient reserve to be able to produce healthy hormone messages… and to produce hormones at all. And it is no surprise that your bipolar is flaring… most women are naturally bipolar – our hormones rise and then they fall. It is how high the rise (manic) and how hard they fall (depression) that is the key.
A company out of Canada developed a nutritional supplement specifically for bipolar disorder. They have now gotten thousands off their meds. The all natural supplement contains 36 essential vitamins, minerals and aminos. They are called Truehope and their site is http://truehope.com.
The product is now available through Q Sciences – and is on my blog – http://lesliecbotha.myqxlife.com/.
The body works best when it has all it needs to function. When our bodies are starved from deficient or insufficient levels of micronutrients our function is less than optimal. EMPowerplus™ Q96 provides a complete foundation of bioavailable nutrients in perfect balance, allowing the cells, tissues and organs to work optimally. It is like putting high-test fuel in your car instead of the usual diesel.
The synthetic hormone pills you are on – are not doing you any favors – and they are only masking over (attempting to) your hormone imbalance and your nutrient deficiency. You also need to explore the addition of Vitamin D3 to your diet – none of us are getting enough of that essential nutrient either.
It is your choice – heal or medicate. I think for the sake of your upcoming marriage and your family – healing is the better option.
Please feel free to email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you would like more information.
You are too young to be feeling this way – and if the condition is not resolved – you will only get worse. “Nutrition should be the primary treatment – medication the supplement.” We have it the wrong way around – don’t you think?
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I am 25 years old and have never had any health problems. In fact I pretty much avoided the doctor because I never had the need to go. I went on a short trip to NYC with my husband at the beginning of September. A couple of days after we arrived back home from the trip and I was getting light sensitivity. Then a couple of days later (Monday) I woke up with dizziness. I went to my family physician where they did some blood work. That came back normal. She sent me to have an MRI since I started getting aura migraines just a couple of months previous to the dizziness. I had the MRI, that came back normal. I went to the ENT thinking maybe I had an ear infection (which could cause the dizziness) or some type of vertigo from the plane. He said everything looked fine. I this point I had dizziness, light sensitivity, unsteady eyes, horrible chronic neck stiffness and pain, and it felt like I got a cold on top of that because my throat hurt and one of my ears was clogged. The cold went away after a few days. A few days after I ended up in the ER because I was getting weird metallic sensations of pressure in my head which would cause my eyes to be unsteady (which I would describe as dizzy), I was getting tingling up my face and down my neck and back. I also experienced tightness in my chest in neck. It almost felt like my airflow was going to be cut off because the front of my neck was getting so tight. They didn’t do anything there for me at the ER. I sat and talked to the doctor and he offered to prescribe me a muscle relaxer for my neck pain. I told him I didn’t want to take the medication because I wanted to be able to listen to my body without any medication altering the way I was feeling. Finally I went to a functional chiropractor who found that I had a weak liver, (I don’t drink alcohol) a weak left ovary, and weak adrenals. He put my on liver supplements and adrenal supplements. A few days after I started taking the supplements I started have crazy shifts in anxiety and depression. This would happen just sitting at my desk at work. I would get anxious about making any transitions like going home or going to work in the mornings. After the anxiety, depression would follow and I felt like my life was going to be like this forever now and nothing would be the same or ever go back to normal, then I would get anxiety again. I talked to my chiropractor and he told me to stop taking one of the supplements because maybe we just started with too high of a dosage for what I needed. That seemed to balance me out for a bit. I have been taking the supplements for 1 month now. About a week ago (right before I started my period) I got the anxiety and depression again. I think I’ve got depersonalization also. I think I’ve pretty much had this since I started getting dizzy. I just don’t feel like I’m in my own body. Is this all hormonal? Currently I’ve been experiencing dry eyes for the last 3 weeks. My vision just isn’t what it was before all of this started. My neck is still hurting, light sensitivity, random metallic pressures in the head still (not as bad as they were weeks ago), experiencing depersonalization still, anxiety, and some depression, I have also had problems with my memory (which I’ve always had the best memory!) Since I started my period a couple of days ago, most of the depression has gone away. Do you think this all hormonal and will eventually be balanced out once we get my adrenals functioning properly? I have always been a very stable, independent woman. It’s so upsetting to see your life flipped upside down this quickly. I’m just ready to be my normal healthy self again. I’d appreciate any advice. Thank you so much!!
Hello, Natalie – Thank you for sharing your story. I have so many questions for you.
These days – vaccines and synthetic hormones birth control has to be brought up.
Were you vaccinated with the HPV vaccine Gardasil or with the flu vaccine? I ask because you mentioned the metallic sensations, light sensitivity, ear infection and dizziness.
You have a lot going on for sure – I would have to write a book to respond.
I am not sure that all of this is hormonal…. what is hormonal is that your symptoms worsened before your period and then got better post-menstruation. That is normal – to an extent.
I am hopeful that we can figure out what is going on once I have more information and that we will be able to come up with a game plan.
I only listen, research, offer education and advice based on what I know. And of course, I offer a lot of support.
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com and let’s set up a time to talk – ok?
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Also forgot to mention stomach issues completely disappeared after getting of the BC
I came across this post while looking up hormonal imbalances. I am not 100% sure that’s what is going on with me but I definitleu have my suspicions. The doctor I see (also my gyno) is an NP at a Navy hospital and really isn’t very helpful on the issue. I currently experience headaches (they are on the temple area – thinking they are tension headaches because they feel like someone is squeezing my head) ranging from dull to severe but the frequency are almost everyday. It’s been this way for at least 6 months, howver, it was an issue for years prior to this too just not as frequent. I also have issues where I get stressed out and angry really easily ovER things that are minute and I know have no reason to be upset over. I also have issues where out of no where I feel like my heart is in my throat palpatating I get short of breath like I feel like I need to take deep breaths or yawn to get enough air in me..generally this happens around when I have the bad headaches. I also have issues with sore tendons and being extemely tired to the point that I feel like it’s a chore to do anything. I hate feeling this way. I don’t want to be too lengthy but I do want to explain my background. I was on ortho tri cyclen lo from 18 to 20. I got off of it to get pregnant and did not experience any symptoms while on it or or when I got off of it. After I had her I went back on ortho tri cyclen a few wks after. Within a 6 months or I was having issues where I felt like I wasnt breathing enough, heart palpatations, feeling stressed for no reason and tired all the time. I saw all types of doctors for it including getting an EKG and ECG and everything was pretty much fine. These episodes would happen randomly. I stopped taking birth control to try to get rid of the issue and ended up getting pregnant with my son. It seemed to lessen during pregnancy. After I had my son I was put on Yaz which worsened a gallbladder condition I had from when I was 7 yrs old so I jumped around again on birth control. I ended up on a progestin only pill which I noticed the least symptoms on. However, I realized the headaches and feelings of anxiety (or whatevr ryou would call it) would happen whenever I drank any soda with any dark coloring. I never drank soda often so it wasn’t hard to pinpoint it after tracking it for a little bit. However prior to being on birth control post pregnancy I never had an issue with the dark coloring. I started experiencing more gallbladder issues while on the progestin only pill and ended up hVing it removed. For about a year after I had it removed I was eating whatever I wanted with no stomach issues. I eventually was switched to ortho tri cylen (not lo but the regular one) because of breakthrough bleeding. Once I switched I started having sever stomach problems. Unfortunately I went on with these stomach problems for over a year without linking it to the new birth control. I would have severe diahrrea after almost everything I ate and it didn’t seem to ever be consistent with a particular food (i.e. dairy, gluten etc).I would also get severe stomach pains. I was getting headaches to some degree during this time and was also feeling very easily angered an easily stressed out by things that shouldnt make me feel that way. I also started having issues with certain joints feeling very painful when pressed on (on inpartular on the side of my knee that I see stars whenever it’s touched) This past June my doctor switched me to trinessa (similar to ortho but I guess by another company) this is when things got kind of crazy. I started having the headaches everyday for the most part..some unbearable. I felt very moody and not myself. I was starting fights with my husband for no reason..getting aggitated at my kids for small things..just didn’t feel myself. I also starting feeling severely fatigued, dizzy at times..then eventually the anxiety attacks (or whatever you want to call feeling like youre not getting enough air and heart palpatations). At this point I was fed up. I saw my doctor and she did bloodwork. Everything came back pretty normal with the exception of my bilirubin (high) and albium/globulin (high). My doctor said everything looKS “normal” and did no further testing. I just was starting to figure out the patterns between the symptoms and the bith control types (worse when on the higher estrogen pills). I took myself off the birth control and now it has been about 3 wks that I’ve been off. The first week and a half or so I felt pretty good..decreased headaches (although not gone), hardly any anxiety attacks, felt more clear headed and less foggy, also less angry and moody. Sometime In the 2nd week I started having scattered symptoms again. Now this week (now a few days before My period) I feel similar to how I did while on the high estrogen birth control – anxiety attack type feeling, headaches are more severe and feel foggy again. I am almost 99% convinced I have a hormone problem..just not sure how to figure out what I am missing..am I lacking estrogen or progesterone or both? Or is it just coincidental and something else. I am trying to switch doctors and refuse to see my current doctor again because she dismisses everything I say and actually told me birth control can’t do any of that stuff and that I should have an iud put in (I guess she wants me to suffer more lol??) Any advice would be appreciated !!
Thanks
Vicki – pretty obvious you were having adverse reactions to birth control.
What no body is considering is your nutritional status.
Immunity decreases and hormone levels fall right before menstruation – so no surprise some of your symptoms appeared right before your period.
My humble guess is that you are estrogen dominant from the pill. With lower levels of progesterone which decrease post-pregnancy.
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com and let’s set up a time to talk.
Glad you reached out.
Much easier for me to relay information and education one on one.
The rest of the information I have already posted in the hundreds of other comments.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi Leslie
Thank u so much fot ur precious time couple of days ago and having a chat with me. Thank u for educating me. Thank u for opening my eyes to things. You brought tears to my eyes s stranger wanting to help me out.
I have listened to ur advice i have ordered the vitamind from truehope
And bought vitamin D3.
Will keep u posted after a few months how im going.
Im reading ur book now too.,
Thank u so much from the bottom of my heart.
Lots of love
From Australia
Gordana
Gordana – thank you for reaching out. Am not a stranger – am a sister anxious to help other women suffering needlessly when the medical establishment does not take in the obvious. Nutrient depletion. Instead they diagnose, label and prescribe. We have to get away with that. Our conversation needs to change. Instead of saying “what’s wrong with me?” We need to start asking ourselves – what nutrients are we deficient in? That way we remain in control of our bodies and our healing. Give the bodies the tools it needs to heal it self. Women’s wisdom. And it has been sorely lacking in the conversation. That is why we suffer. Anxiety, fatigue, depression are all an emotional response to a brain not getting the nutrients it needs to function optimally.
I am delighted you are reading our book.
Thank you for that honor.
Please stay in touch and let me know how you are doing.
Also please feel free to post a review about our book on Amazon.
And I am always available to answer questions.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hi there, please if you have time I was hoping you could offer some advice for me. My problems started after I had my second baby in December of 2012. I was breastfeeding and I resumed my monthly period rather quickly, and I was packing on pounds. My mood was and still is poor, I can’t handle little stressful things anymore, I used to have all the patience in the world! I get overheated easily, I am always tired no matter how much sleep I get, I actually need to take naps with the kids during the day. I gained 50 lbs and I became insulin resistant. My Dr has put me on metformin which is helping me lose weight slowly. Some days I have a really hard time concentrating, like I have a lot of brain fog. My anxiety has gone through the roof, and I’m always paranoid about my health. I usually think I’m dying of cancer because no one can tell me what’s wrong with me. I am nauseous towards night time every day. The drs have convinced me that I’m depressed and my tired issue is just because I have young children. I know I don’t feel right. Can you offer any advice. I’m only 26 years old, I don’t want to feel like this for the rest of my life 🙁 it’s awful. I am going to a bodylogic near me in December to see if they can help too.
Thank you for reading this.
Sincerely,
Jessica
Am trying not to be angry – taking a deep breath. Ok. Better now. Let me explain this to you from a woman’s perspective. You are nutritionally depleted after 2 pregnancies – I do not even know what kind of birth control you used before or what your lifestyle was/is – the anxiety, stress, weight gain brain fog, paranoia exhaustion is more than postpartum depression and a heck of a lot more than ‘because you have young children.’ (The last statement is what made me angry.) Your only 26 for heavens sake. I will tell you again you are nutritionally depleted and this leads to hormone imbalance.
Every pregnancy a woman goes through takes vital nutrients – amino acids, minerals and vitamins out of our body… Babies do not come from storks – nor do they come with their own list of ingredients they take what we have to offer – and we are left with the rest – which in your case is nil to none period.
You do not have to live like the the rest of your life. But if you do not provide your body with the nutrients it needs to restore its health – you will continue to live like this and get worse as you age. No rocket science here. Pure evidence based logic sprinkled with women’s wisdom.
None of us are getting the nutrients we need to sustain our health. That is why everyone around us is sick or chronically ill.
Please look at the EMPowerplus Q96 advert on my blog.
If you are interested in science-based evidence and a supplement that will restore your mental/emotional and physical health – then email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
And get some Vitamin D3. Read this information. We are all D deficient as well.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Hi Leslie
I’m 37 years of age. I have 3 children, 14,12 and 20 months. I’ve had 3 ceasearians..
My health issue started in April 2011. I was driving and has a anxiety attack but didn’t know at the time it was. I went to doctors they did all sorts of test to find out what it was. They couldn’t. Then I did a pregnancy test just in case and I was pregnant afterc11 years. I was told I could have kids. My anxiety just got worse during the pregnancy. I was on put on tablets serotonin and sent to a psychologist. I developed a phobia in driving and still to this day I’m scared to drive alone it’s October 2014. I was scared to be alone and I still do sometimes now. The last 2 years I have days where I have to be with someone so insouciant go to my in laws everyday or my mum still comes every fortnight ans stays for a couple of days.
But also in the last 1.5 I breasted for a year. My periods have changed alot. My anxiety gets worse I can feel it’s my hormones out of whack I tell drs but they just dismiss it and send me home. I feel at times I’m going to explode. I noticed my periods I get so stressed out. My glands near breast hurt my breast hurts. I was getting my monthly twice a month. Or if they come it’s short. My period every month for the last 2. Years after it finishes stops for a day or 2 then i was having brown discharge come out for a few days. So it felt like it never ended. The last 3 months I went to a Natropath he gave me vitex 1000 and some herbs to drink. August, sep, cot I only got my periods once. But I’m still getting that discharge after period but now it seems more red then brown. My breast and glands hurt more after period. My left arm and leg muscle titghten heaps. I feel the nerves thought my body and I know it’s my hormones. My anxiety flares up, I’m fearful always thinking what us wrong and always think the worst. And cause the anxiety to flare up, can u help or guide me how to get help and what it say to this silky doctors. I feel like I’m going to explode at times. I’m trying to keep it together and not easy with 3 kids in general.
Mrs. Gordana – please email me a leslie@holyhormones.com.
We will set up a time to talk.
Do you Skype?
I would have to write a book here about what is going on with you.
It’s all manageable – that is the good news.
You are right on target – you are experiencing a severe form of hormone balance due to three pregnancies and 3 caesarians – that can cause extreme hormone imbalance – just because of the abrupt change in pregnancy status.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
Leslie also I should add in…
I was to by my doctor 3 years ago to try cognitive therapy and speak with a councillor. This did absolutely nothing for me as my anxiety is not from anything in my past. I had NO problems in my life. Apart from the anxiety obviously! I have an absolute great life. I notice I can not have caffeine. And if I have too many beers, the next day my anxiety is back. Same when I am tired.
I look forward to your reply.
From Lauren
Hey Leslie
I’m so glad I found your ever so helpful information.
I’ll keep mine short!
My anxiety started when our 2nd son was 6 months old. I was breast feeding him constantly (a lot,) he was so healthy and chubby and I was so thin and run down from not much sleep etc.
My anxiety snow balled as I did not understand what was wrong with me. I would go for a run each morning and this would help. But as the weeks went on the anxiety got worse.
I didn’t want to see anyone, I had this unreal feeling, heart racing, racey thoughts, I would feel uneasy, I lost more weight, I couldn’t concentrate, no appetite, very tired.
The anxiety really won me over. I wasn’t my usual self that’s for sure. I was prescribed Zoloft 100 mg, I stayed on this for 2 years. I tried to very slowly ween off but my anxiety would resurface. I had to increase to 150mg. 3 years on Zoloft and here I am, too scared to go off it!
My mum has just hit menopause and has experienced anxiety quite bad. Crazy hey, 2 super healthy and fit women experienced anxiety within a year of each other. Mum and I didn’t even know really what anxiety was till now this has happened to us both.
I have a question also about, that strange lingering feeling I get when I have anxiety, I feel like I’m not really doing what I am doing, it’s a weird feeling. It’s hard to explain. It makes me sound like I’m nuts!
I am very interested in your advice,
Thanks, Lauren
Hello, Lauren – have read both of your posts – and of course cognitive therapy did not do anything for you.
What you and your healthy mother are experiencing is a shift in hormones – for you post-pregnancy and for your mum – menopause.
You both probably have low progesterone levels.
But what you are also lacking are minerals to optimize brain functioning. The brain is the largest endocrine gland in the body – and where hormone production begins.
You have had two pregnancies plus breastfeeding – and you have healthy and chubby children. But where does that leave you? Nutritionally depleted. Every pregnancy takes vital micronutrients out of our body: vitamins, minerals, amino acids that we need to function. Add breastfeeding to that – and you have very little left in your nutritional reserves.
Now, your Mom did not experience this because in her day women had higher nutritional reserves to begin with. Today – there is hardly any nutritional value in our foods – or it is synthetic which means it gets stored in the body fat not absorbed at the cellular level. And if you are eating organically, the soils have also been depleted of vital minerals.
Minerals and amino acids are crucial for brain functioning. The anxiety you are experiencing is the emotional response to your brain not getting the nutrients it needs to function. A condition that only gets worse over time if left untreated.
Not sure where you are located Lauren – but please check out the information about the EMPowerplus Q 96 on my blog. This natural supplement – the most studied supplement in the world by the way – has 36 essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids to replenish your nutritional reserves and to target brain functioning.
Your mum is also experiencing a lack of nutritional reserves to naturally transition into menopause. And you both might be experiencing some thyroid issues as well.
EMPowerplus Q96 is the most researched micronutrient formula of vitamins and minerals on the planet.
1. All of the research is done independently with over 39 scientists and researchers participating in four different countries.
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3. The balance of the minerals to one another along with the balance to the vitamins is what has a synergistic effect on the central nervous system…..giving it and the brain the tools necessary to balance and to maintain well being.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com for more information.
Also you and your mum – as well as most of us are Vitamin D3 deficient.
Please read this link. Anxiety is also linked to low levels of D3 http://vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency/
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
My previous post had an error in the email address. Thank you. It is cbdeigan@aol.com
Colleen – you have a lot going on. But I believe it is all manageable. At least that is where we will start.
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com to arrange a time to talk.
I need more information – and you need even a lot more information from me.
Keep reaching out – I can get you back on track again. This is all related to hormone imbalance – and lack of hormone period. Your neuro-endocrine-immune system needs more support. Antidepressants ain’t gonna fix the problem period. They will over time, make it worse.
I cannot believe the MD said you have no hormones and then pushed his belief in not believing in hormones on to you.
NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU. You are severely biochemically and nutritionally deficient. Let’s get those reserves built up so your body can start functioning again.
I am so glad you reached out.
You do not need to be suffering like this.
Leslie
I am experiencing practically unending crying throughout the day! My depression has been happening for the last 5years. I receive no pleasure out of anything. I sweat heavily. I never used to sweat. I am 58 and have not had a period in 15 years. I am constantly thirsty. I experience very severe panic attacks and then some milder ones. Visited the doctor approx. 3 years ago and he said I had no hormones and he doesn’t believe in hormone replacement. I have been on every antdepressant that I can afford. Terrible mood swings, racing thoughts. Sometimes my depression begins with a happy time from my past with my children and then I dwell on that all day. Sleeping is almost a thing of the past. I take just a small bite of a 300mg tablet of Trazadone because I don’t want to awaken drowsy. I never had any stomack problems, but now I cant even take a bite of toast and then I remember to run and get my Prilosec. I hate the way I feel. I have no energy and sometimes just stay in bed half the day. Is there anything that can help. I also used to love to read fiction and I haven’t picked up a book in approximately 5 years! I think about the past and find no interest for the future. What is wrong with me?
I believe i suffer from hormonal imbalance horrible. My anxiety has become debilitating. I would really love for someone to email me to discuss further in am seeing an endocrinologist later this month. I recently did nutrition response testing and lack many vitamins which i am starting a new. Regimine. Hoping to feel better and back to myself pre baby.
Hi, Jessica – replacing the vital nutrients that you lost during pregnancy is going to be like night and day….
Most women suffer from hormone imbalance…. one reason is that we no longer get enough micronutrients from out diets.
And we are not getting the D3 from the sun.
If you do not start feeling a difference on your new vitamin regime within a week – contact me again. I will recommend a product that will knock your socks off.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
My daughter is 13 and got her periods when she was about to turn 11, they didn’t start off like they should really, bleeding constant for two weeks becoming heaver, then would stop bleeding for 4 days then would start to bleed for another 2 weeks this continued for 6 months which resulted into anxiety, so I took her to the doctors and they suggested the pill, I wasn’t keen but after a great deal of investigating I decided this was my only option as it was not suggested to me to get a hormone test done her, now nearly 2 years later my daughter has been suffering with high anxiety to the point of not wanting to leave the house she is seeing a councillor and is doing CBT therapy which seems to be helping to a certain point but feel she needs something more could it be imbalance hormones, I’m not sure what to do next please help
Hello, Emma – I am sorry I did not see your post earlier.
I can help your daughter.
Her health is directly related to your hormone health.
First question – did she receive the HPV vaccine?
First clue: heavy bleeding in a woman of any age (barring a medical condition of course) is not heavy bleeding – it is hemorrhaging. Big difference.
Two plausible reasons for this:
(1) Low levels of progesterone
(2) Low levels of bioflavonoids
(1) Natural progesterone is needed to stimulate ovulation and to maintain the uterine lining when a pregnancy occurs to prevent miscarriage. Your daughter’s heavy menstrual bleeding may be related to that. Were you on any progestin birth control prior to pregnancy? How was your pregnancy? Did you experience PPD?
(2) Bioflavonoids are needed to strengthen the capillaries, arteries and veins everywhere in our body to prevent hemorrhaging.
Suggestions:
(1) You can try a natural progesterone cream to see if that will offset some of her anxiety and stimulate more progesterone production
(2) Get bioflavonoids either as a stand-alone supplement or with Vitamin C and see if that does the trick in tapering off her bleeds.
Her anxiety is undoubtedly hormone related – and may also be attributed to the ‘shame’ young girls experience over menstruation and menstruation management – especially at school – and these are tender years for her – where self-esteem is crucial. Is she cannot trust her body – she is in trouble – right?
I will also recommend the EMPowerplus Q96 for her anxiety and to strengthen the neuro-endocrine-immune system. It is very difficult for these young girls to get the nutrients that they need from the foods they are eating. Counseling and CBT is great – but she does need to fortify her hormone health.
Feel free to email me at leslie@holyhormones.com for more information.
We can get your daughter feeling better in no time – without spending a lot of money.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Hi everyone! I have been having “crying” issues for a long time! I have been prescribed anti depressants and that didn’t do anything! I am going to have my hormones checked in a few weeks, hopefully that will help! I have been on depo provera for about 11 years and it left me a mess. I just started with young living oils, they have a few things in going to try. Any suggestions on where to start first? I’m almost 30. I read the mister oil is supposed to be good for my age range but the I also saw its only for men. I’m so confused but I have to do something! This is so embarrassing and annoying!
Hi Crystal – I guess you went on Depo at about age 19? Just when your reproductive rhythm was beginning to develop. And then the Depo suppressed it for 11 years? BTW – Depo is intended for short-term use only – long term is all other forms of birth control are not safe for the woman.
That being said – Depo suppresses natural progesterone – a feel good hormone an necessary to prevent miscarriage. 11 years of suppression is serious – no wonder you are crying all of the time. I will be interested to hear what your hormone levels are…. am sure progesterone will be low – but it is really the ratio of estrogen and progesterone that is crucial to hormone health.
That being said – if you are going the essential oil route check out Young Living’s Progessence Plus. Since it is a homeopathic remedy some women feel worse on it before they feel better. You can always try a natural progesterone cream from the health food store. Both the oil and the cream should stimulate your progesterone production.
And make sure you research and get Vitamin D3 – this vital nutrient is needed by all women, men and children. And make sure you are on a bioavailable micronutrient with targeted minerals, vitamins and amino acids for brain health. Like the Q 96 EMPowerplus on my site. All synthetic hormone deplete the body of vital nutrients. And the brain is the largest endocrine gland in the body – and where hormone production begins. Nutrition to the brain will ensure that eventually – your hormone ratios will be balanced.
Antidepressants did not work for you because of the underlying suppression of progesterone.
Read the comments from other women struggling with Depo withdrawal.
Hope this helps.
Stay in touch.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
in going through hell…
I’m having so much headache and I don’t want to act stupid but I turn to be everytime .. my husband loves me so much but I start to say bad stuffs to him… I hurt him so bad… if this continues I’ll be losing everything please I need help
Where are you located?
What is your age?
How many kids?
Do you have a history of headaches – if not why and when did they start?
Are these migraines?
Are your headaches related to your menstrual cycle?
Have you received the Gardasil or Cervarix HPV vaccine?
What is your method/history of birth control?
Do you have any other health issues?
If you can come back to me with some answers to these questions, I will have a better idea of how to help you.
And I can help you.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I am 43 years old. I have been experiencing extreme anxiety, panic and agoraphobia for the past 2 years. It has debilitated me to the point I had to leave my job and I cannot drive. I have tried several anti-anxiety/anti-depressant meds to little relief. I discussed my symptoms with my ob/gyn because I thought it may be perimenopausal related. He recommends starting a birth control pill, but am a little hesitant to start it. Not sure what to do next!
Well, read my most recent post on the link between breast cancer and the birth control pill – and you will realize your hesitation is actually your intuition.
Be that as it may.
You are suffering needlessly – and that you cannot drive and had to leave your job at 43 is too young and too sad.
No relief from meds PERIOD. They mask do not heal the hormone imbalance – perimenopause phase you are in and the nutrient deficiency you are experiencing.
You need EMPowerplus Q96 today. This supplement targets the brain with essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids to restore hormone balance. I do not know your medical and health history – nor pregnancy history but we are no longer aging – we are disintegrating. THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE. Your extreme anxiety, panic and agoraphobia are emotional symptoms for a brain in distress. The pill will deplete even more of these nutrients. The stress as an ICU nurse depletes vital nutrients every day.
There are 25 independent published studies on this nutritional supplement. Many on depression, and anxiety.
We all need to change how we think. Nutrition IS the primary treatment. Give your body what it needs to heal itself (I know this is not in the medical books – but with the advent of neuroscience and brain scans – we can see the brain ‘heal’ with the right care and feeding.) There are 3 major systems in the body: neur-endocrine-immune also known as the NEI Super System .
And since the brain is the largest endocrine gland in the body – it will regulate immune and neurological functioning.
Think of the brain as the motherboard – and we all know that if the motherboard ain’t happy – no one ain’t happy.
Let me know if I can help.
You may also want to consider ordering amino acids as well – to give your brain a much needed support boost.
Stay in touch and email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you would like more information.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Carrie – also get on Vitamin D3 – available at your grocery store. Read more about this crucial and vital missing hormone here: http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency/
L.
Hello, i was birth control from July 2011-Nov 2011. I was on the birth control implanon, but i started to get serve acne( i never had acne at all not even a pimple before going on this birth control) and mood swings while being on it. So i decided to go off it after a few months. After going off of it in nov, my acne got 10 times worse, really red blemishes, dark marks that wont go away. Its going on almost 3 years this November and its still the same. Nothing has changed its all in the same spot like it was when i first went on birth control. I have not been on birth control since i was on the implanon. My gynecologist keeps telling me oh you just need to lose weight because all your hormones are in your stomach. Well, iv never been a size 2 im a size 7-8 never had a flat tummy and before i went on the birth control i was still the same size and never suffered from acne. So she prescribed birth control again to help my acne, but im unsure if i want to take it just to help get rid of it for a few months. I want my acne completely gone with out taking synthetic pills to help for a while. What should i do?? im not getting the answer i want or need to help this situation!
Hello, Kara – synthetic hormones are not the answer for acne. Your body is detoxing. And you know have hormone imbalance.
My suggestion is that you try the Touchstone Essential Pure Body Zeolite detox on my site – as well as the EMPowerplus – and get yourself on Vitamin D3 today – http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency/
I have used the Pure Body for acne and mosquito bites – and it is gone overnight – if not sooner.
What toxins can the Pure Body zeolite remove?
The zeolite Clinoptilolite helps remove heavy metals and positively-charged toxins and Volatile Organic Compounds including:
Aluminum
Lead
Mercury
Cadmium
Arsenic
Radioactive Metals
Nitrosamines
Bisphenol-A – estrogen mimickers…
Toulene
Benzene
Pesticides
Herbicides
One of the first symptoms of D deficiency is ACNE. Vitamin D3 is a missing hormone. The Implanon just shattered your hormone imbalance and now you need to rebuild it. Your hormones are all over your body – not just in your stomach.
Most women would love being a size 7 or 8. Your gyno is not offering great advice. So glad you reached out here.
We are all about helping women thrive.
Hormone blessings,
GET THE D3 TODAY…
Leslie
Hi I’m wondering if you could give your opinion and advice. I am 43, and have throughout my years had anxiety anger restlessness worry be the inability to relax. I do many things to manage it without medication like yoga and meditation and biking. This year though it’s gotten worse and my skin is quite bad which is unusual. Deep acne on my neck etc. I have incredible feelings of dis-ease, fear of my responsibilities with other people, fatigue, heart racing, agitation. I know I am deeply troubled by hormones, now more than ever. I am so unhappy. What can I do? I am living outside of my home country of Canada at present and I cannot access good health care or testing. This only worsens my feeling. Do you have any advice? I feel like this is part physical and part environmental. I’m a vegetarian but eat eggs so times and dairy. I’m in Mexico and I wonder if I’m not ingesting chemicals or hormones that are worsening my sensitivities?
Thank you for insight you have to offer.
Meytoh
Hello, Meytoh – Thank you for reaching out. 43 years – entering perimenopause – preparing for your next transition. This change in hormones affects so many women. Some women do experience severe acne at this stage in life. I did myself at 50 – and finally realized the outbreak was due to a new shampoo I was using. (Head and Shoulders if you all want to know. Ran out of my shampoo and started using my husband’s. As soon as I got off – my skin cleared up….but not in time for my 50th birthday party. So you might want to check any new products you are using in Mexico. The acne blotches on the neck sound like more off an allergic reaction…. but of course, this is just speculation on my part.
To answer your question, it is very possible that you are experiencing an allergic reaction to toxins/hormones in your new environment. What do you know of the area where you are living?
I am not sure of your birth control history – but it does sound like your estrogen/progesterone ratios are off. Can you get Wild Yam natural progesterone cream where you are living. That will help balance some of your feelings of fear, anxiety and a racing heart.
And of course, there is nutrition. Most of us are not getting the nutrients we need to feed our brain. Amino acids, minerals, essential vitamins. Lucky for you there is a company in Canada called Truehope – The Leaders in Brain Health. Their bioavailable micronutrient supplement is targeted to the brain and is absorbed immediately by the body. The EMPowerplus supplements is a blend of 36 micronutrients (amino acids, vitamins, minerals and enzymes).
What you are experiencing is the ’emotional’ response to your body not having the nutrients it needs to carry you through this transition into the next stage of life – menopause. Most women are nutritionally depleted at this age (also due to not being able to replace vital nutrients after pregnancy) – in addition to being endocrinally whacked out – from synthetic hormones, and not living in synch with their endocrine rhythm for 20 to 30 years.
The EMPowerplus targets the Neuro-Endocrine-Immune system in the brain (the largest endocrine gland in the body – and where all hormone production starts. Strengthening and optimizing the NEI Supersystem restores health to the rest of the body.
I would suggest you call their 800 number on Monday and get the professional advice you need to restore your mental/emotional and physical health.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
PS – if you want to look into a detox product, I highly recommend the Touchstone Essentials Pure Body on my web site. Detoxes, heavy metals, BPA and other estrogen mimickers, and radiation. The product cuts down on inflammation in the body – and will also help with your acne.
After having my second child 6 years ago I decided to do a tubal ligation. Everything was fine until about three months ago when I started to experience a weird and ugly feeling never felt before like I was scare most of the time, worried about very much everything, with insomnia and with extreme anxiety specially in the mornings and forget about my sex drive which does not exist. I knew that something was wrong because all of a sudden i was not feeling like myself and was not able to concentrate and even do the simplest task at home with my kids. I looked for a holistic center and the doctor ordered me a whole set of hormonal testing through blood and also the saliva test. The result came back with a cortisol hormone completely out of whack and my progesterone level was low. A compounded progesterone (wild yam) cream with Gaba was prescribed but my symptoms has not improved after two weeks of using the cream. At the time of my period the symptoms got worse and I will like to know if there is other way to treat my hormonal imbalance. They also found that I was vitaming D and vitamin B12 defficient.
Hello, Sandra – you almost answered you own question at the end of your post when you stated you found out that you were Vitamin D and B12 deficient.
Not sure how old you are or your birth control history – but a tubal ligation may increase what is known as (of course) another syndrome that women are labeled with – and that is post-tubal ligation syndrome. Here is an article from Web MD – 14 years old – but cites the issue being around since the first tubals in the 50’s
And of course, the doctors (male) deny it exists (how would they know?)
Now – the other complication are the two pregnancies you had – and whether or not you were able to replace the vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes that each healthy baby takes from your body – so they can be born healthy. Add to the breastfeeding – giving away more vital nutrients – and then add an extreme blockage of hormone function – combined with genetic factors – and boom you are right where your path lead you. The clue again are the low doses of two very vital nutrients in your body.
Please look into Vitamin D3 today – http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency/
And you may consider looking into the EMPowerplus Q 96 on my site.
Our bodies do have the ability to heal if given the right care and feeding. And that feeding/sustenance is no longer coming from our food sources. So we must supplement – especially as we age.
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you would like more information.
Hormone blessings,
Leslie
I have been suffering from severe anxiety that leads into panic attacks for 6 years now…I am 39 years old. They have tried antidepressants that only increase the anxiety. I am now on klonopin which takes the edge off but I’m left feeling tired and unable to perform normal household cleaning due to lack of energy. I am so tired of this fight…my body and my mind are very tired. My periods come every 21 to 24 days and are heavy for the first two days. My doctor refuses to test my hormones stating that “as long as I’m having a period there nothing that can be done.” I get so hot like I’m burning internally at times then comes the panick. I just want something to explain it…to know what I’m fighting…
Hello, Melissa – I am sorry to hear you are suffering like this. How many pregnancies have your gone through. Your doctor is dead wrong. You may have a very severe hormone imbalance. – And having periods has nothing to do with it. However, in his defense, hormone testing is relatively new and what is tested are the levels not the ratios. The latter is most important.
Where do I begin to tell you what I tell every woman suffering from sever anxiety and panic attacks. As well as feeling a lack of energy. Have you ever considered you may be nutrient deficient? Your brain and your body are not getting what they need to function optimally?
Have you looked into Vitamin D3? You can read more about this vital ‘missing hormone’ in Sue Rex Ryan’s book Defend Your Life. This is an award-winning NY Times bestseller and right now is only $5.95. Well worth the investment. And Vitamin D3 – in a gel pack – is inexpensive.
Also take a look at the supplement I have on my site – the EMPowerplus Q96. The parent company for this product is Truehope Nutritional Support.
Let’s change the paradigm. You are not ‘fighting’ anything….other than your body’s need for more nutrients. That is the path you need to be on. Give the body the tools it needs to resolve its own issues. This is healing. The rest is diagnosis and prescribing medications that only complicate the issue. Both Truehope and Q Sciences offer professional support services to help you titrate off your meds when your body is getting the nutrients it needs.
The Klonopin – dangerous drug by the way and addictive – is only masking the symptoms and depleting more nutrients from your body.
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you want more information.
You can get your life back. And relatively soon. The EMPowerplus is amazing. I have used this for hundreds of women who are experiencing similar symptoms.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
So, where to start. I need help. I have been working with a great doctor to figure out “what is wrong with me” for about two months. She ran a bunch of hormone testing that came back “normal”, but as my husband kept digging, he threw on her plate estrogen dominance. My levels of estrogen were 156 and progesterone 0.2. The doctor came back and said that it could be a hormone imbalance and she needed to do saliva testing. Well, the clinic currently doesn’t have saliva testing available, so I am sitting, waiting, wondering.
My story/symptoms:
I have 3 children. My latest was born in Dec 2013. By the end of January I was down to 167 pounds. It is now middle of June and I weigh 195 pounds. I have never gained more than a few pounds at a time. It mainly seems to be thighs and stomach. I cannot button pants that I was able to wear while pregnant with my son. I weighed 198 FULL-TERM with my son in Dec 2013. My moodswings and depression have been absolutely awful. I sometimes cannot get myself out of bed for hours after waking up. I have extremely low energy, and find myself not even wanting to clean up our house…something I used to do nightly when returning home from work. My hair is falling out by the fistful, but I have such thick hair you would never notice. My doctor had me on Celexa and then when I told her how awful I felt she changed me to Effexor. She has since already increased my dose because it seems like it is not working. I already suffer from migraines, but they have gotten significantly worse after my son was born. I’m sure I’m missing things, but I need help. I have a doctor that is willing to listen to my thoughts, but I am being held back because they don’t have the right test. I have 3 children and a husband and I cannot continue on this way.
Dear Emily – Your husband is exactly right. Estrogen dominance with a combined nutrient depletion after three pregnancies. Every pregnancy a woman goes through depletes vital nutrients, amino acids, proteins, fatty acids, minerals and enzymes from the body. This is the beautiful balance and check system that nature provides so that we bring healthy children into the world.
But where does that leave postpartum mother’s? Nutritionally depleted and fatigued. Please review the information on my blog about the EMPowerplus Q96. This supplement has been used for many women suffering from postpartum depression. The EMPowerplus will also help with weight loss – while replacing all of the vital nutrients you have lost. It targets the brain – the largest endocrine gland in the body – where hormone production begins. And when the motherboard (brain) is not happy (getting the nutrients it needs for optimal functioning) then nobody (your entire body) is not happy. It is truly that simple.
Also look into this vital nutrient Vitamin D3 . This nutrient is responsible for so many aspects of our health. You can get the gel capsule in your grocery or health food store.
Lastly, your hair loss (also known as Alopecia may very well be due to low progesterone levels in your body. Progesterone is elevated a 100x’s during pregnancy – but then afterwards drops to your ‘normal’ and in your case extremely low levels. BTW – it is not the amount of estrogen or progesterone in your body – it is the ratio between both that is crucial. And your ratios are way low.
You may want to look into getting a natural progesterone cream from your health food store to supplement and build up your progesterone levels until the supplements take effect. Here is another article on Progesterone Therapy for hair loss.
If you would like to have more information on the EMPowerplus Q 96 please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
What you are experiencing is manageable and treatable. The brain will respond immediately to getting the nutrients it is really depressed and anxious about not getting.
Hope this helps.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
PS – will be posting a feature article about PPD – and a radio interview on the same topic on my blog this week.
I am 17, i stayed on the combined pill for about 4 months. Until i started getting severe anxiety, i have always had but not to the point where i woupd panic when i was by myself. I thought it would be the pill so i stopped and it was all fine then i started again for another 4 months until instarted suffering anxiety again so i stopped. It has been 3 months now i have been off and ny periods are normal but i dont feel like myself. I have depression and i am scared to get put of the house because i maybhave a panic attack and no one woupd be there to help me, that has been affecting me because i havent been able to go to school. Now i have anxiety symptoms all the time i have tighness in my theoat and chest, horrible temple headache, i constantly wory i may have all sort of diseases. I cry all the time and sometimes i just cant rake it anymore. I feel like im going to explode with anxiety and i am not able to carry on with life. I wanted to know if this will go away? And if anyone has suffered any of these symptoms after going off the pill. What can i do for it to go away?
Hello Sara – Thank you for reaching out. It appears that the pill caused a hormone imbalance in your body. The pill also depletes vital nutrients. The lack of these nutrients may be causing your feeling of anxiety and depression. May I also ask if you had the Gardasil HPV vaccine? Many girls suffer from side effects from this vaccine as well.
Be that as it may – please check out this site – http://truehope.com. They have developed a supplement targeted to the brain that will ease depression and anxiety symptoms. The brain is also the largest endocrine gland in the body and where hormone production begins.
And also look into supplementing with Vitamin D3 – http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency/
Please consider both of these supplements as you move forward. You are too young to be experiencing these symptoms. They are manageable but will only get worse if not taken care of. It is very possible you were nutrient deficient before you went on the pill.
Here is an article that I posted on the nutrients that the pill depletes – https://holyhormones.com/birth-control/birth-control-pillsbcps/birth-control-pills-deplete-vital-nutrients/
I hope this helps.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
you can also add me on facebook too i really need help with my depression or skype would be better… my anxiety went up and same with my depression… i would need help very bad… thank you
Hello. I am 28 years old and have 3 children. I just stopped nursing my daughter after a year a few weeks ago. I have not yet had a period and started birth control to help regulate me and hopefully balance me out. I have had severe anxiety that comes and goes throughout this month. Always thoughts over past events I did as a young child that are insignificant, but cause me to worry and have anxiety and upset stomach. It is always worse in the am. Some days I am completely fine and others a train wreck. I have had my children back to back and have only had a few periods in 5 years only bc dr gave me progesterone. I would like some relief. I have taken a small dose of Klonopin for the severe attacks, but sometimes it doesn’t help. Can anyone relate and if so does it get better with a hormonal balance? Thanks!
Thank you for reaching out and posting. If you were experiencing hormone imbalance related anxiety attacks – you can bet your bottom dollar that after each and every pregnancy your attacks will get more severe… add aging to that and you are looking at going down a long dark hole.
However, there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
First off – birth control is NOT ‘regulating your cycle.’ It is putting you an artificial cycle that will exacerbate your hormone imbalance – and deplete more nutrients our of your body. In fact, you do not have a period when you are on synthetic birth control – you are experiencing a ‘chemical bleed’.
Klonopin is dangerous Period.
No let me suggest what may really be the root cause of your woes. Under nutrition. Yup. As simple as that. When the brain does not get the nutrients it needs it becomes depressed and anxious – in effect – calling out for help and support. And yet we have been taught to think there is something wrong with us and we go trotting off the to doctor to get a RX – which further upsets the neural pathways in the brain. And depletes nutrients I might add.
First of all – it is no longer possible to get the nutrients we need from our food sources – not just vitamins but essential micronutrients like minerals – and amino acids. These are essential for proper brain functioning. Think of the brain as the motherboard. And when the motherboard is happy – then the rest of the body is happy – right? And if the motherboard ain’t happy – then no one is happy.
Every pregnancy you go through you lose vital nutrients and micronutrients. Nature’s wonderful balance and check system is to use your nutritional reserve to create healthy babies. However, studies are showing that if a woman goes into a pregnancy with hormone imbalance issues, then she will pass that imbalance on to her offspring. If you do not deplete your nutritional reserves after each pregnancy you will feel like a train wreck – and the wreck becomes worse after each pregnancy.
Nursing only depletes more nutrients out of your body… and if you are already nutrient deficient your infant is not getting the micro-nutrition it needs through your breast milk.
You may consider natural progesterone once you come off your birth control. That will help boost ovulation so that you can have a period. And no more pregnancies back to back. You need a break. Tell your husband it is his turn to take on birth control – whether condoms or a vasectomy.
And get on some bio-available micronutrient support now.
Then you will start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel so you can begin to enjoy your life as a mother.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com.
I can give you a lot more information.
You need to change how you are thinking. Medication and masking the symptoms whether RX meds of birth control is old school. Nutrition should be the primary treatment – let the body resolve its own issues with the right tools – and then medication if and only the body needs some additional support.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
Please watch some of these video testimonies. Women who are using the EMPowerplus for depression, anxiety and postpartum depression….now known as postpartum psychosis. Your life does not need to be a train wreck.
Obviously, I am still thinking of you.
Hormone regards,
Leslie
I’m 33 and I’ve struggled with pms symptoms since my early twenties. Now that I’m in my thirties I am becoming tired in my muscles easier. I get dizzy and have joint pain. I get frequent headaches that don’t seem to go away with drinking plenty of water. I’m irritable, combative and paranoid
around my periods.
I’ve been prescribes clonazepam for my anxiety which seems to work when I take it.
I’d like to look into hormone treatment.
I think possibly my adrenals are taxed. Please help me.
Hello, Lindsey – my apologies for not getting back to you sooner. You are under-nutrated. A severe vitamin, mineral deficiency. Clonazapam only masks the symptoms. And it does not sound like you are taking this regularly – which will pose other problems. And yes, all of your symptoms will increase and keep getting worse as you age during the paramenstrum. When you are premenstrual -your hormone levels drop, your immunity becomes more compromised and you are generally feeling more fatigued. If your body does not have the tools it needs – you will keep falling into the rabbit hole in your brain.
Your brain is the largest endocrine gland in the body. Get nutrition to the brain and the neuro-endocrine-immune system fall back into balance. Your body can heal itself – when given the right tools. Nutrition should be the primary treatment and medication the supplement. We’ve gotten the story backwards.
Contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com – and I will provide more information.
You came to the right place to get back on track.
Hope you follow up with me.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I’m 33 and I’ve struggled with pms symptoms since my early twenties. Now that I’m in my thirties I am becoming tired in my muscles easier. I get dizzy and have joint pain. I get frequent headaches that don’t seem to go away with drinking plenty of water. I’m irritable, combative and paranoid
around my periods.
I’ve been prescribes clonazepam for my anxiety which seems to work when I take it.
I’d like to look into hormone treatment.
I think possibly my adrenals are taxed.
Could progesterone had caused my divorce? She changed over the course of several weeks(at 45) and a miscarriage 4 months before(her 1st time pregnant). Help!
Mood disorders and hormone imbalance – i.e. nutrient deficiencies can add to friction and eventually divorce in relationships. Especially at 45. Perhaps it is a combination of all of these factors. A low ratio of progesterone will affect miscarriages. Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you would like more information. Is there a chance to save this marriage?
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello again I forgot to mention does anyone have problems after taking vitamins? I have tried various lambert vits – multi guard control, mag, premesse women etc and I feel irritable, cloudy thinking or my heart races?
Hello, Pamela – you are having problems with the vitamins because they are not bio-available…. meaning your body is struggling to break them down. It is obvious you are nutritionally depleted and hormonally imbalance. Plus you are not getting minerals and amino acids – in a targeted broad spectrum supplement for brain health. That is where endocrine health begins. You mind will clear – your anxious thoughts calm down. You have a neurochemical imbalance that is affecting other systems in the body.
I highly suggest you look at the EMPowerplus Q 96 on my site (right and column) and then contact me. I have recommended this one product for women with adrenal fatigue – and all of the symptoms you have mentioned and within 30 to 60 days they feel so much better.
Also get some Vitamin D3 – reads the benefits of this one supplement alone… http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/effects-of-vitamin-d-deficiency
Pamela – thanks for reaching out. Now I am reaching back. Let’s start getting you well with a nutritional supplement that works.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello I have previously posted on this website. My anxiety started after the birth on my 2nd child over 3 years ago. I was using acupuncture and Chinese med to help. In feb this year my condition has got much worse. Panic Attacks, heart racing, feeling irritable after eating, dizzy, giddy and nauseous. I’ve had various tests done by saliva and my estrogen is low and cortisol high. I have been eating well and on vitamins and a herbal to assist with the adrenal/nervous system. The herbal helps with the nausea and giddiness. I still have anxiety every day some better days than others. Even when I exercise I heart races. Does anyone else suffer from this after exercise and irritable after earing?
Pamela
Thank you so much for taking the time and offering some help!! It is very appreciated!
You are very welcome. Please come back with more questions… and let us know how you are doing.
We are women helping women thrive.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I have been so desperate for info on what is wrong with me…I am glad I came across all of this info! Thank you! I have been hypothyroid for 8 years. Prior to that I tried a few forms of hormonal birth control. About 20 years ago I tried the pill and in 6 months I was very ill. It made me throw up daily and I couldn’t hardly get out of bed. Once I stopped it I was fine. About 15 years ago I tried the Depo shot. That was a nightmare. After a year on it (along with a pretty good weight gain) I was an angry, livid, enraged woman. It transformed me into a monster. I stopped that and never did hormonal birth control again. Ever since then I have struggled to control my weight. I would fluctuate about 20lbs. But if I worked at it it would come off eventually. 3 years ago I got pregnant (age 34) and it was terrible. I had horrible symptoms (hyperemesis gravidarum, pregnancy gingivitis, depression, I was almost suicidal, it was hell). The baby also had congential problems and at 6 months into the pregnancy he passed away. I had to deliver him and within a few days I could feel myself returning so I know there was some massive hormonal things going on. Within the next 2 months though I gained serious weight. About 20lbs. 3 years later I am now 35lbs heavier than I have ever been (including pregnancies) I have anxiety that I have never had before, and panic attacks. I can’t loose the weight no matter what I try. It is mostly in my midscetion. My muscle tone is gone, the stress and anxiety hang over me, I am completely lethargic feeling and I don’t know that I will ever feel or look right again. I have had my hormones, adrenals, thyroid checked and everything comes back “normal”. I know that the ranges are very large, and I also know I am not “normal”. I just don’t even know what to do, look for or try and fix. The weight and anxiety are almost insufferable. I am just afraid they will get worse and with the way I am carrying weight I fear it will create even more health issues down the road.
Hello, Marie – I am so sorry for the loss of your baby. How very sad. My heart is heavy for you. I can hear the pain and anguish in your writing as well. It is obvious to me you had severe hormone imbalance prior to you pregnancy… Perhaps under nutrition – in terms of essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids. 90% of women feel so much better during pregnancy… and for you it is the opposite. The hormonal birth control did not help.
So much to consider – your health, parental health; mother’s use of birth control, your environment, your diet. My suggestion is that you listen to my radio interview with Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya who is an endocrinologist. She is accepting new patients – and will do long distance consulting and advising.
You are a prime candidate for hormone balancing and building up your nutritional reserve. You weight gain may be due to a sluggish metabolism – a digestive system that is not functioning, or your body is storing ’empty nutrients’ for a rainy day – since it is not getting the nutrition it needs to sustain itself.
You are right in intuiting that your symptoms will only get worse over time and as you age.
The good news is that your present condition is reversible. The body wants to heal – and get back into balance. We just need to figure out the right tools.
Listen to the interview first.
Call Dr. Ochoa-Maya.
I am also available for a consultation.
Thank you for reaching out.
I am so glad you found this site.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I have been having panic attacks all throughout the day, even home doing nothing. Im breaking out all over and have been bruising easily. My panic attacks make me feel like i cant breath and get light headed to the point of feeling like im going to pass out. I dont have health insurance right now so i cant keep going to the doctors. I have a thyroid disorder and i am taking meds for it. Is there any over the counter viatamins or something that could help get the hormonal balance corrected?
Hello, Courtney – Make sure you listen to my radio show tomorrow with Anthony Stephan of Truehope. He will explain why the lack of bioavailable nutrients will cause hormone imbalance and panic attacks. Bruising easily is another vitamin deficiency. A deficiency of vitamin C, iron and vitamin K is usually associated with easy bruising. I would look for a vitamin C product which contains bioflavonoids. Bioflavonoids enhance the activity of vitamin C in the body. After a few months, you will notice that the bruising will improve. I had this problem myself and it’s gone now with the use of supplements.
Also get some Vitamin D3 –
After you listen to the radio show contact me and I will help you move forward with your healing.
You came to the right place and at the right time, Courtney.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I’m 25, and I have been having a ton of issues that I assume are hormone related since I was 11. When I firat started my period when I was 11, it lasted for about 3 months straight. My mom took me to a doctor who put me on birth control, and that was that. All through my teenage years, I would have anxiety and depression randomly. When I graduated and left home, I stopped taking my birth control because I didnt have insurance. So for the last 7 years, I’ve had awful issues (irregular periods, super scarily heavy, skipping months, super light, getting sick to the point of having to stay in bed,etc.) I am also hahing other symptoms. Every month I have a breakdown. I cry for no reason, I feel super restless, my mind goes 90 miles a minute, I feel sick, I want to eat everything in my house, I lose my confidence, I want to be alone, I worry about everything, etc. I hate feeling this way. I wwantto fix it because it’a getting old. I’m about to have insurance again, and I wwantto get on birth control because I’m in a long term relationship, but I don’t want it to mess me up anymore than I already am. Any advice on what I should do would be greatly appreciated.
Hello, Brea – Synthetic hormones are dangerous at best. Especially for young girls whose neuro-endocrine-immune system is not fully developed.
It does appear you are hormonally imbalanced – due to all of the symptoms you mentioned above. You are not getting old – but you are too young to feel this way. And if you do not take care of the imbalance now – it will only get worse. And it will eventually affect your relationship.
Please believe me when I tell you that one month on the Empowerplus Q96 – – vitamins, minerals, amino acids will change how you feel. These are nutrients geared toward brain health – and since the brain is the ‘motherboard’ and the largest endocrine gland in the body – this is where the healing has to begin. Going on birth control AGAIN is not going to fix anything. It will only make the problem worse.
Synthetic hormones deplete vital nutrients out of the body. And if they are not replaced – your symptoms (think of it as your brain is unhappy because it is under nutrated – making you unhappy – and you think you are going crazy) will spiral downward until you are put on antidepressants, anti psychotics etc. And then you will really get into a whole other vicious cycle.
Save yourself 5 more years of misery – by contacting me and getting on the Q 96 for one month. This product is helping thousands of women – and men.
Lets get you nutrated first – see what the body can naturally resolve – when it has the right tools to do so…. and then look for further alternative healing therapies – if need be.
All of the women I have worked with and suggested this incredible supplement are coming back to me with gratitude. And they are staying on the product.
Twenty independent published studies do not lie.
Link to the blue bottle – EMPowerplus Q96 is on the side bar.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com – and I will gladly explain more.
I will even do a Skype call.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi. I am 34 years old, mother of 5, last two are twins, age 3. I have always been healthy, and was raised on natural remedies (even gave birth to my first 3 children at home). 20 months ago, my oldest son was hit by a car on his way to school and killed. He was 13. I ran out on the scene and witnessed the moment of his death. As you can imagine, I have been under an immense amount of grief and stress since, but thought I had gotten to a point where I was “dealing” with it as well as could be expected. 8 months into my grief, and again at one year, I became ill with malaise, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, insomnia, etc., coupled with a sense of anxiety, since it felt different than other sicknesses I’d had, but I wrote it off as some sort of stomach bug. It lasted about a week each time. Then in April of this year (17 months into my grief), I got it again, but this time, it did not go away after a week. It lasted about 3 months! My symptoms included severe fatigue, malaise, insomnia, digestive issues, and anxiety. It got much worse before and during my periods. I sought the help of 7 different doctors and naturopaths, including a visit to the ER for fear that I was dying (I felt so awful). I was given prescriptions for valium, xanax, citalopram, and more (most of which I did not take), for a few of them wrote it off as an anxiety disorder. I did citalopram for 3 weeks, but it made me crazy and sicker! The last doc diagnosed me as having an endocrine imbalance and gave me some phytonutrient supplements to boost my nutrition. He also advised quitting the citalopram. 2 weeks later, I felt like I was back to normal. 3-4 weeks after that, or now, it seems to be coming back! My question is, can chronic or severe stress cause or contribute to a hormonal imbalance in someone my age who is otherwise healthy (I eat pretty well and only weigh 140 lbs, 5′ 6″), would it cause those symptoms, and how long should it take to go away (is it normal for it to come and go)?
Hi, Erin
I am so glad you reached out.
I am sorry and am grieving for your loss.
You are severely nutritionally depleted – especially after five pregnancies – which take vital amino acids, minerals, vitamin and enzymes out of your body.
This has now been compounded by trauma and grief and now psychotropic medicines.
This is why the drugs work for awhile… but then stop. They are only masking the symptoms.
I do have information that will help you – as well as some tools that will help your body begin to build up its nutritional reserves.
Your body does and has the ability to heal – it has not been given the right tools to do so.
Please email me at leslie@holyhormones.com and lets set up a time to talk.
We have to get you to a healthy place for the sake of yourself as well as your children.
Your brain needs to get the nutrients it needs so it can heal from the trauma to start processing the grief…. so you can heal.
I will be out of the office all day tomorrow but back in on Friday and here all weekend.
I will make time to speak with you and offer information, education and advice on how to start healing.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi Leslie,
Thank you for this wonderful website, full of information. I am 35 years old. I had a great first pregnancy, 2 years later my daughter was born. After my second preganancy I stopped nursing at 7 months…that is when all of my trouble began. Out of nowehere, I had panic attacks, I had 5 in a few days. I was terrified as I had never experienced that before. I even called an ambulance to my house twice! I tried natural ways to heal but I was desperate as the panic would not stop and I took the Cypralex as perscribed (10 mgs). It worked for a year and then it stopped 2 weeks ago and I have had panic ever since. My doctor wants to up my meds but it makes me sick to increase them. I have no history of this condition, just a natural worrier. I did suffer the trauma of loosing my Dad all of a sudden who I was close with three months before I was pregnant with my second. The anxiety is the worst in the morning. My doctor is using the words mental illness and depression, but I am not sad. I have a great marriage/family/jobs. The panic is robbing me of the joy that I once expereinced. I was a happy and free person. I am writing this with the bottle of Cypralex beside me trying to fight not upping the dosage. Please help if you can and bless you for all of the wonderful work that you are doing.
Hello, Mary – I am glad you found this site.
Here is the deal….you are on your way to getting addicted to the Cypralex.
And you know that.
I have worked in addiction recovery for years – and I understand the mechanisms of the brain in addiction.
When the brain does not get the nutrients it needs it latches on to whatever makes it feel good.
In this case it is your RX. The reason you have to keep increasing the dose is because the drug is only masking your symptoms.
It is not healing the hormone imbalance and the nutrient depletion you have experienced after your two pregnancies.
Your brain/body will get used to this new dosage while your body keeps going downhill – and then the brain (and your doctor) decide you need more.
Do not get diagnosed with a mental illness. That is hooey. Nonsense.
I have no idea of the status of your health prior to your pregnancy – but I can tell you Mother Nature’s balance and check system ensure that the babies we bring into the world – get every essential vitamin, amino acid, enzyme and mineral that is in our body – so that we bring healthy children into the world.
If you were taking your synthetic prenatal vitamin – you wasted your money. The body does not absorb synthetics. It stores them in the fatty tissue. So there is no nutritional benefit to you.
Couple that with the lack of nutrients in our diets (especially if you eat processed, ‘dead’ food vs. ‘whole ‘live’ foods). Even you are eating organically, you are not getting enough nutrients since the soil is depleted.
You need to be on a strong nutritional supplement to build up your reserve. A supplement that gets targeted nutrients to the brain. The brain is where hormone production begins. And the brain regulates every system in your body.
This is why I have the Q96 supplement on my site. It has been especially formulated so that is is bio-available. That is the other thing – we take vitamins but they pass through our bodies because our digestion is messed up. The Q96 is like getting nutrients right from food; plants etc. So you will feel the effects within days.
Another thing about the Q96 – which I just learned – is that vitamins and minerals need to be in synchronistic ratio to be effective. For example – a lack of zinc will cause depression and anxiety – but zinc has to be in perfect ratio with another mineral – copper to be effective.
Think of all the money we have spent on vitamins – and they have not been absorbed or effective.
BTW – one of the senior advisor’s on the Q Sciences site is Stephen Kimberley, M.D. who is the Chief Science Officer. Bio below.
This is the real deal Mary. Women on the product are improving. It is affordable. It may take time… but healing does take time. We have to get away from the ‘one pill for every ill’ mentality. Nutrients are not medicine or drugs. Drugs force an effect but often at the cost of incurring dangerous side effects. Nutrients, on the other hand, work with the body’s own, innate intelligence, supplying the body with an entire workshop of tools it knows precisely how to use to achieve, protect, preserve and extend its own peak health, all without risk or side effects.
Q Sciences also offers a Micronutrient Support Services plan with trained professionals who will help wean you off your medications.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you want more information.
We are calling the Q96 movement ‘Women Helping Women to Thrive’. Women are being prescribed too many psychotropic drugs, when in fact they are nutritionally depleted.
I invite everyone here to consider this product.
Also get yourself on Vitamin D3 today! Vitamin D3 is a hormone. We are depleted of this essential because we do not get out into the sun.
Read this information on Vitamin D Deficiency.
Make sure you get a soft gel vitamin from your health food store – 5,000 IU’s and take two a day.
Let’s get you healed – not medicated/drugged so that you cannot enjoy the beautiful family you brought into the world.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Thank you Leslie for your information. I am starting to feel like there is hope. Never had normal periods and now after childbirth and not being on the pill anymore my periods are terrible and for a week prior I feel terrible and spott that week before and then have an extremely heavy flow. My mother said she experienced the same and started the early stages of menopause around my age. I know it also doesn’t help that I am a full time working mom that gets only 4 to 5 hours of broken sleep a night (my girls are terrible sleepers) and my husband is a city fireman and works 24 hour shifts leaving me home at night alone pulling double duty, I just want to help myself get better and happier. I will definately be emailing you to get more information and a list of some vitamins and supplements I can start to take to help alleviate some of the stress and anxiety.
You are so welcome Malinda. A colleague of mine – actually a well-versed man who follows my blog and radio show shared this article on Brain Fog and the neuroendocrine system with me yesterday.
I believe I have been saying the very same thing in all of my responses.
I will be contacting Dr. Lam today about doing a radio interview with me.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I just turned 37 and have been struggling with anxiety since my two pregnancies. I have experienced the worst over the past 6 months. I have been put on effexor fe and have zanax .25 mg for when it is needed. I feel that the hardest times with the anxiety are the week prior to my period through 2 or 3 days into it. My periods have also changed since my last pregnancy and being off the pill. I have my period every 23 to 28 days and it is extremely heavy. I am mood, edgy, irritable and extremely stressed on top of lack of sleep. I thought I was crazy until I saw this sight and the posts. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I want to feel like my old self again and want to be there 100% for my 2 year old and 4 year old!
Hey Malinda – I just responded to your post. Sorry I could not get to you sooner.
I can help feel like your old self again.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello. I am sooooooooooooooooo happy I found this site. I thought I was crazy. I just turned 37 and have always had terrible periods and ovarian cysts. I was on the pill since age 16. Only time I was off the pill was for my two pregnancies. I had bouts of anxiety during my 2 pregnancies but with my second it was much worse. I went back on the pill for a short time and was taken off due to servere migraines. I had my thyroid tested and it was normal. About three months after coming off the pill the anxiety came back but before effexor the last 6 months it were horrible. The doctors put me on effexor fe 37.5 mg and if needed I have zanax .25 mg. I find that I need the zanax off and on the week before my period and in certain social environments. I was getting discouraged because the effexor was doing great for the first 3 months. Know seeing this I wonder if there is something else I can do. I hate being on medication but the attacks were debilitating and I work full time and have a 2 year old and 4 year old to care for. I would love any suggestions….. I want to feel normal and like the old me!
Hello, Malinda – I am so glad you found this site as well. You are not crazy. It appears you may have hormone imbalance and nutrient depletion. You were put on the pill before your neuro-endocrine-immune system had a chance to develop – and your natural hormone production was suppressed. It is sad that this is overlooked – when prescribing the pill to young girls. In addition your nutritionally depleted. The pill depletes nutrients and as well as your two pregnancies. You do not have any nutritional reserves left. Unfortunately, your kids may also experience this now genetic ‘hormone imbalance’.
You need to reverse this. The reason you have to be on these SSRI’s a week before your period is because your progesterone is low. Do you doctors know you are going off and on these drugs? Drugs only do great for awhile – but if you do not cure the real problem – they are just going to keep upping the dose, right? Your body is going to get used to one dosage, the nutrient depletion and the hormone imbalance and the nutrient depletion get worse… and there you are – it is a vicious circle.
I highly recommend the Q 96 product on this web site. It is bio-available and has minerals.
Most people also do not realize that Vitamin D3 is also a hormone. Depletion of this hormone causes many problems…
read this article… http://www.vitamind3-cholecalciferol.com/vitamin-d-deficiency.htm
It is time to try nutrient therapy instead of drug therapy don’t ya think?
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you want more information on the Q 96.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I’m 41 and have just had a miscarriage at 8 weeks (fetus didn’t progress past 6). I have had severe raging mood swings since then – it’s been a bit over a week. My dr. said she didn’t want to give me hormones and offered effexor which I am not sure about so in googling I came across your site.
I had my first son at 30 (had pre-eclampsia) and then had two miscarriages at 33 before having my second son at almost 35 (had gestational diabetes). I divorced their father two years later. Since then I was put on Yaz and had daily migraines and my blood pressure started on a rollercoaster pattern. I ended up in the hospital having my gall bladder scanned but it turned out all right but made me stand up against my dr telling me it wasn’t the birth control pills and I simply quit them. I then got the mirena iud believing it had an initial low dose of hormone and then only worked as a barrier (I was misinformed). Over time I began to have migraines again. A debilitating sharp pain in my side along with the knowledge I was wrong about its hormones caused me to have it removed. I haven’t had headaches or other issues since, until this surprise pregnancy.
Since my 20s I’ve had severe facial and arm hair. Yet my actual hair has drastically thinned. I still have acne. I’ve always been told that my bloodwork is normal, although sometimes they’ll admit I’m barely in the range of normal. I know I am not normal! And I’d rather not take the effexor but I don’t know what tests to ask for to get the information I need to know what I really need to treat. I’m sure I don’t have the best diet- I gained 10 pounds immediately with this pregnancy but I’m usually 130 at 5’5″- but right now I can’t stop eating and craving sweets and nothing is satisfying my thirst.
Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated! I was so excited to see Dr. Hotzeh was in Houston until I read “no insurance accepted” and costs between $3-6,000 which is so far out of my reach.
Thank you!
Hello, Wendy – well, sure glad you landed here instead of in another expensive doctor’s office. You are screaming hormone imbalance. And the synthetic hormones therapy you have been put on has only exacerbated your condition. You do not need more hormones – especially synthetic – you have to rebuild your nutritional foundation.
You went from synthetic estrogen in the birth control pills which may have caused the pre-eclampsia and migraines. Also diabetes is hormone imbalance. Miscarriages are a a result of estrogen dominance – and too little progesterone. And then you went on the Mirena IUD which furthered suppressed your progesterone and causing your final miscarriage. Progesterone is necessary to sustain the uterine lining to carry the pregnancy to term – and you did not have enough. And now you have mood swings. No surprise there.
A strong nutritional reserve is necessary for a pregnancy too.
You better get on a nutritional program now. You are going into perimenopause. And I think you may want to check out your diabetes (sweets and thirst).
You are nutritionally depleted from your pregnancies and your endocrine system is whacked out big time.
You do not need to spend $3,000 – $6,000 for that diagnosis.
I would recommend a naturopath. Someone who can monitor your health and treat you naturally so that you can start healing.
Stay off the synthetic hormones.
Give your body a break.
You can email me at leslie@holyhormones.com – if you want more information.
You are too young to be feeling this way.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
HI LESLIE
I was just wondering about some of the past posts about Lyme dz. I was diagnosed with a Q-Rib blood test and I’m just wondering how valid the test really is? I’ve become very skeptical because the Dr. I was seeing to rid the parasite from my boy, used massive amounts of random herbs and anti fungal and antibiotics and anti parasitic. He claimed EVERY symptom of problems in my body , from hormones to TMJ and IBS were from the nasty little parasite. He used a method of muscle testing that he even expressed that he was a skeptic and didn’t know hoe it worked. I became so sick on these life consuming herbs and supplements that I ended up in the emergency room near death. I told him of the circumstances and he stated that this was normal and it is whats called a ‘herxhiemer’ effect. Needless to say I was told to stop all the “crap” he had me on immediately, given IV fluids and sent home to rest. To make things more interesting my TMJ flared so bad I had to get an MRI and found I needed surgery because of a dislocated disc. Nothing to do with Lyme at all. I also saw an endocrine Dr. who put me on bio-identical progesterone and I miraculously became normal with all menstrual activity.
I guess I just wondered what Dr.’s these women went to to diagnose their Lyme dz and the treatment plan. I have a friend who is an herbal specialist from her own teaching and she suggested to detox with MMS. It is not FDA approved for human consumption but has worked miracles. Keavy’sCorner.com.
Any response would be appreciated. THANK YOU
Hi, Cara – I am not that familiar with Lyme Disease. What I do know and finally remembered is where I read information about it is from a Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt.
MY colleague, Aeron Goldheart is working with him – and before we did our radio interview he mentioned it to Dr. Klinghardt’s work. I found an article that Dr. Mercola wrote about him awhile back. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/05/dr-dietrich-klinghardt-on-lyme-disease.aspx
It was in my conversation with Aeron that I found out that Klinghardt feels that Lyme Disease is much more prevalent and at the root of many other diseases.
What I do know is this: I spoke with Dr. Hanan Polansky with the Center for the Biology of Disease – I actually interviewed him on my radio show regarding the Gardasil HPV vaccine -and he believes that dormant viruses are much more dangerous than active viruses. The reason for this is that symptoms from an active virus can be seen and then ‘treated.’ Colds, herpes outbreaks etc. But it is the dormant viruses who are sucking the nutrition out our cells constantly. If that nutrition is not being replaced – people will eventually become ill. It is all about detox and nutrition.
I do hope Amina will respond to your question.
I would think that a naturopath might be very helpful.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello, Cara – A woman named Amina contacted me today.
She has more information for you about Lyme Disease.
She asked me to give you her email address.
Amina
Hope you are well.
Leslie
I should also mention that it’s believe by doctors that me suddenly stopping the pill caused the lyme bacteria to really come out of dormancy, due to the sudden hormonal fluctuations.
Hi All,
I’m not new to this site and you have probably read a few of my comments. I just wanted to let you know that the reason for my symptoms (including those caused by estrogen dominance) was lyme disease. After a lot of research and persistence I managed to confirm this.
I believe Leslie even once mentioned to me that mine may have been a deeper issue, as my symptoms were very severe, and she was correct.
I thought I would let you know in case you wanted to look up the symptoms of lyme disease – it can cause havoc on your endocrine symptoms, lead to adrenal fatigue and of course lots more.
Hope you’re all well. If you need any more information, please don’t hesitate to email me. Leslie, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post emails here so feel free to delete this, but it is aquatica_1@hotmail.com.
Take care.
Amina – what you have posted is very interesting. And you are more than welcome to post your email address. I just read somewhere – and I am going to have to back track on it now…that more people have been exposed to Lyme Disease than what has previously been thought.
Let’s face it – the endocrine systems is a delicate rhythmic – alive communicating network of neurotransmitters, hormones, and cytokines. These messengers affect the functioning of every cell in the body. They make up the NEI Super System -Neurology, Endocrine and Immune System.
I find it very interesting that your Lyme Disease came out in full force after coming off the pill. You were hormonally imbalance and nutrient deficient. But here’s the real deal. Dormant/latent viruses are much more dangerous than active viruses. Why? While they are inactive they are still alive sucking nutrients at a cellular level to stay alive. They just wait until the scales are tipped in their favor and then they come out and play – wreaking tremendous havoc on a body that is already weakened.
Micronutrients folks. Read this article – found it last week – have yet to get it posted: Micronutrients and the Premenstrual Syndrome: The Case for Calcium. The article is from 1999. Look how many women have suffered because they did not have this information. They are being put back and forth on numerous forms of birth control – and add some SSRI’s to that mix.
Thank you Amina for coming back and sharing what you have learned.
I hope you continue to post and keep us apprised of your healing journey.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I forgot to mention that I am 31 years old and I have three children. A 5 year old, a 2.5 year old and a 1 year old. I was not on any birth control between pregnancies, but I was on birth control before that for a few years.
Jessica
Hi,
I had the Mirena IUD in for 10 months, and just had it removed 2.5 weeks ago because I felt that it was negatively effecting me. Since removal, I felt great initially and then for the past week I have had bad anxiety and I can’t stop thinking that something is wrong with me and that I will never be back to normal. I also feel like I have slight visual disturbances and I am very sensitive to fluorescent lights. I am normally very easy going and have never felt like this before. I sleep well at night but when I wake in the morning, I feel the anxiety coming on and I get very tense in my neck and feel foggy in my head and I feel so uneasy. This is driving me crazy, but I am hesitant to go to my doctor because I feel like this might all be in my head and I don’t want to take any medication. Could this be from the removal of the Mirena??
Hello, Jessica – Great question. And the answer is YES. You are suffering from a combination of hormone suppression with a good dose of nutrient depletion.
The Mirena IUD is a progestin birth control – synthetic progesterone. It suppresses your natural production of progesterone. Now that you are off the Mirena – you are severely progesterone and nutrient deficient. Low levels of progesterone do cause depression and anxiety.
In addition to that – can you tell me what you did to replace the nutrients that each one of your pregnancies took from your body. Synthetic vitamins do not get absorbed by the body – they get stored in the fat cells. In other words they are worthless. Also you need the right combination of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes to re-fortify your nutritional health.
If you go to your doctor he will tell you it is all in your head and he will put you on drugs.
If you want to heal – contact me and I will help – leslie@holyhormones.com
I will tell you this – if you do not reverse this know – it will get worse.
Read this article I found. Still have to post it. Micronutrients and the Premenstrual Syndrome: The Case for Calcium
And no, a good, ‘healthy’ diet will not replace what you have lost through your pregnancies. And synthetic hormones also deplete nutrients. https://holyhormones.com/birth-control/birth-control-pillsbcps/birth-control-pills-deplete-vital-nutrients/
It is time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Nutrients heal. And none of us are getting enough nutrients from our foods.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi, I have never wrote on a website but I really like the info you have. I am 32 and been off birth control for 3 years. Since being off my Pms has gotten very severe so much 2 weeks out of the month I can not function at all. I have severe breast pain, night sweats, anxiety, depression, nervousness, muscle pain, insomnia, migraines, weight gain and found out a few months ago I had a cyst rupture and I still have some on my ovaries. I am lost and tired of this. My ob did blood work and found I have low progesterone. I have always been on birth control since I was 14 until 3 years ago. The best I have ever felt in my life is when I was pregnant with my daughter 7 years ago. I am not sure what to do anymore. I can’t handle birth control because the estrogen in them made me worse. My pms starts when I ovulate. My periods go from 21-28 days and very light and only last about 2 days. I thought about an iud to stop the ovulating and then do progesterone cream. I am out of ideas. Any advice I would greatly appreciate and thank you for listening.
Hi Tiffany – You are experiencing estrogen dominance. 14 was way to young for you to be put on birth control. Your endocrine system did not even have a chance to develop and it was stopped by synthetic hormones for 18 years? Holy Hormones Honey! Birth control not only whacks out the hormones – they also deplete vital nutrients.
The Mirena IUD – synthetic hormones has caused a lot of problems for women. Do your research. You are already hormonally imbalanced – you do not want to upset the cart even further.
You may want to consider a non-synthetic hormones IUD. This IUD will set up a minor infection in your uterus – so you will still ovulate – but the fertilized egg will not be able to survive in the womb. You will want to make sure you are properly nutrated if you go this route.
I have this new supplement on my site – Q 96 – that will help balance your hormones – by nutrating the neuro-endocrine and immune systems. Women who are trying this are having significant positive outcomes. If you would like to give it a try for a month – contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com
You are too young to be experiencing all of these problems.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I posted here 6 months or so ago. Finally have some answers…. First found out I’m allergic to gluten, my thyroid antibodies are extremely high, and I am estrogen dominant (very low on progesterone) I am on my 2nd month of hrt progesterone and taking magnesium glycimate, selenium, and a adrenal gland vitamin. I’m far from normal but hoping to see results soon especially in weight, energy, and libido. I’m only 29 , but feel like 92… It’s starting to effect my marriage in the sex dept…. (My son is 10 months old. ) any idea how long it takes to notice changes…also any other recommendations especially in the libido…
Thanks!
I remember you Ashley. You have found out some very good answers. I know this must be affecting your marriage – I hear that from women all the time…. I have more questions for you – is the hrt progesterone synthetic or natural? I am glad you are taking vitamins – but again synthetic or whole food? Also are you taking them individually or as a multi vitamin.
I have learned a lot about vitamin supplements lately through my work with Truehope EMPowerplus and now Q Sciences and the Q 96 product. First of all – if vitamins are synthetic they are stored in the body fat – not absorbed at the cellular level. In other words – taking synthetic vitamins is like putting them in the closet and shutting the door.
Secondly, if our digestive systems – gut – is not functioning well then most vitamins and supplements are passed through the body – or again stored – not absorbed. One reason that I keep touting the EMPowerplus and the Q 96 supplements is because they take 4 days to process – most vitamins take 2 hours. Why the difference? The micronization process – breaks the ingredients down to so that they are bio available…. meaning they are being digested.
Third and most important – I just learned that vitamins and minerals need to be in perfect ratio to each other to be effective. Just like estrogen and progesterone (and all other hormones in the body) need to be in perfect ratio for optimum health. So taking one vitamin here and another there is not making a difference. For example zinc and copper need to be in perfect ratio to stabilize moods.
So now to address your comment – I am hoping to see results soon – if you are not feeling the effects of the nutrients you are taking within a few days – then they are not effective.
You need abundant nutrients for abundant health Ashley – especially after just having a baby. Did you read the post on my site about the increasing numbers of women suffering from postpartum depression? That is because we are nutrient depleted and hormonally imbalanced before we get pregnant. And aftwards we are a wreck.
If you want to see results contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com.
PS – you went to a bioidentical hormone clinic – right?
Keep me posted on how you are doing.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
thank you leslie, now that i think of it the insomnia started when i started taking antidepressant an anti-anxiety meds. renee dont get on antidepressants they will only cause misery in the future trust me. they have really messed me up. also leslie my thyroid is off too which could be contributing to my poor sleep an anxiety an depression. i didnt ralize that was hormone related. thanks for the info.
Yippers – all hormonally related. And all fundamental for our health and well being. This is why my co-author and I have written our book “Understanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle.” Somehow – someone decided that this information and education was not important for us to know – when understanding our hormone and behaviors is our life line to sanity.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Where do I start….
The past 6 months I have been dealing with anxiety. I am wanting to think that it all started when I went to my gyno for a yearly physical and discovered that even though my youngest daughter is 2 1/2 and I stopped breastfeeding her at 10 months I still have “breastmilk” . My Dr did labs and told me everything checked out fine. Only after scaring me to death talking about possible benign tumors and how this problem could last even until after menopause. Work is so stressful that I am know going to a chriopratic in order to relieve the stress that is leading to tingling down my entire right arm. I’ve been over the past 3 months tryin to figure out which antidepressent will work. Paxil prozac and wellbutrin they all cause decreased sex drive and im still so angry I can’t stand my ownself. Not to mention the lack of sleep. I haven’t been on birth control since march 202011……I’m fed up
Hello Renee – Understand feeling fed up – we are not getting the answers we need from out doctors anymore. I have an article on my blog today about more and more women experiencing postpartum depression. This is not rocket science. it is time to take back our health and get off of drugs. Why is it so hard to believe that what is really going on is nutrient depletion.
Where do you think babies come from? The vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes in our body. And after that baby is born – women are left with whatever is left. And if there is nothing left – well – that is what lead to postpartum depression.
Nutrate – do not medicate. Why is this such a hard concept? It is the easiest – most cost-effective and you get to take control of your health instead of selling your body and mind to doctors and pharmaceutical companies – who are making bib bucks off our hormone imbalance and lack of nutrition.
You are exhausted – your exhaustion is affecting your mental/emotional and physical health – with the tingling and breast milk production.
I can help you – and you will start feeling better immediately.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
You do not have to be fed up – get fed down – nutrients – targeted to the brain – will feed your entire body. Regain your vitality. If you do not do this now – what will you be like in 6 months – let alone 6 years. Sorry – saying you will feel this way until menopause is old medicine.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
leslie
could you tell me how insomnia an plays a role in hormonal imbalance. i was reading yolandas reply an i feel so wiped out from all this, and im scared too i wont get better. just looking for hope that im not going to be stuck like this.
Insomnia hormone imbalance or sleeplessness is both a cause and effect. Basically, hormone imbalance resulting from perimenopause, menopause, adrenal fatigue or any of its other symptoms, may cause sleeplessness which in turn worsens the hormone imbalance. Sleeplessness also has many other non-hormone related causes. These hormonal and non-hormonal causes of insomnia include:
Chronic Stress
Night Sweats
Adrenal Fatigue
Anxiety
Dietary habits
Insomnia in women causes hormone imbalance and worsens the symptoms of menopause because the body needs sleep for the body’s hormones to do their job properly. Sleep is absolutely essential for repair and rejuvenation. Poor sleep habits can predispose people to an early death by way of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
http://www.bodylogicmd.com/for-women/insomnia-hormones-sleeplessness
The only way you will be stuck with this is if you do not do anything about it.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi Leslie. Cara here.
To answer your questions: 1. I am 34 years old. 2. The school I attended was for animal training and behavior management with exotic animals. It was a very intensive program and required a signed contract that we would work 12 hours a day in the zoo at school and zoo days at LA zoo and Santa Barbara Zoo. I was so busy and running myself to death. I could not keep up. I was burning more calories than I could consume. I fell from 110lbs to 92lbs. After school my sister got pregnant and I consumed all foods she was eating. I gained 20lbs but was still not feeling any better as far as anxiety, insomnia, etc. So when I obtained the hormone doctor, she recommended a anti inflammatory diet. I went hard core and did the diet for 3 months and found that I’m gluten and lactose intolerant. I feel much better. I am at 120lbs and healthy. But now I am concerned I might be pregnant. YIKES! It was day 19 of my cycle but my doctor said that it is possible to get pregnant especially because I am taking the progesterone.
Than You for your quick reply. I hope to hear from you soon,
Cara
Hi i? Was diagnosed with ‘post menopausal symptoms thru a saliva test in 2008. I was severely malnourished and had just finished a bachelors degree in 2 years of of study. I retained a psychiatrist and was put on anti anxiety and bipolar medication. I then visited a Dr. For the hormone imbalance. I am feeling much better, at a healthy weight and am taking bioidentical progesterone. My periods remained normal even when i was ‘sick’.. my question is, am i ovulating as normal? Or did the low progesterone levels make me not ovulate render me infertile?
Hello, Cara – I find you link to post menopausal symptoms and ‘malnourishment’ very interesting. Am wondering what you did to boost your nutritional support.
This is a link that bypasses many health professionals as well as most women suffering from these symptoms. So glad that you finally found a doctor who treated your hormone imbalance.
That your periods remained ‘normal’ every while you were sick is the sign of a healthy endocrine system. If you are having regular periods w/o problems that means your are ovulating and that means – again w/o any other medical issues – you should be fertile. Progesterone is necessary for ovulation and maintaining a healthy pregnancy. The hormone also elevates the mood.
BTW – How old are you?
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Thank u for taking the time to respond back so fast my insomnia is much better I can sleep through the night now but my perios is still of I was late in Feb for this month I didn’t get a period and when I did get it it was painful I had real bad back pain and cramps my flow was normal but I noticed a lot of blood clots I wonder if thats normal??
Yolanda since your insomnia is much better – that is a sign that the hormone imbalance is being worked out and the EMPowerplus is working. Sleep deprivation and hormone imbalance go hand in hand. Are you charting your menstrual cycles? Keeping track of the days of the month they start on – and how long they are? Clotting is not necessarily abnormal unless you have been passing blood clots for more than a day, the blood clots are larger, bigger than a quarter. Have you ever had clots before.
Your neuro – endocrine system may still be adjusting as you the nutrients are building up in your system. As far as the back pain and cramps – that has a lot to do with stress levels. What else went on in your life this past month. Any additional stress/changes in your life?
Here is an exercise for the future. The uterus hangs in the abdomen. It is not attached to the abdominal wall of any other organs. It hangs by muscle ligaments so that the uterus can expand with pregnancy. However, due to gravity – the uterus can also get stuck leaning back on the colon or forward on the bladder. So when it is time to have a period – the contractions (cramps) of the uterus – then cause of bladder or colon to contract – increasing the discomfort. The uterus on the colon will cause back pain.
Simple exercise to get the uterus into a free fall position.
Get on your knees – and stretch your arms out on the floor in front of you. Arms stretched and palms on the floor. Put your forehead to the floor and gently arch your back and hold. Hold for 30 seconds – release and repeat. Breathe while you are doing this exercise. This will help get the uterus back into the center of the abdomen and off the colon or bladder.
Also note – that it is very common for women to experience a more difficult period once every three to four months.
Email me Yolanda – if you would like to get a chart to track your cycles. leslie@holyhormones.com
Keep posting!
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi I’ve posted before any my anxiety,,,
I’m seeing a naturopath that’s helped me and has listened to my list of symptoms.. I’m also still taking the empower pluc vitamins for almost 3 months but not at the dose they told m, my doc told m a lower amnt, I’m also taking inositol powder and other botanicals .. I tried progesterone cream which made thing worse for me I had horrible hot flashes and night sweats and I stoped it !!! My period is still coming late .. some days are better than others but I would likeit to be ok all the time ,, I’ve seen this doc for 2 months I hope i get better it’ll be a year in April since i started with this I feel frustrate!!!
Hello, Yolanda – good to see you here again. Am glad you found a naturopath who has listened to you. That is so important.
I understand about the progesterone cream – it can make things appear to be worse. It takes time to balance the system. I remember the one time I used the cream my face broke out in welts. Totally freaked me out. As soon as I stopped the cream they welts went away. But on the other hand – I was also going through a painful divorce and was very stressed out. All of these factors come into play.
How is your insomnia?
And your heavy bleeding?
Remember that you are nutrating the body – not medicating it – and it takes time. The more nutritionally depleted – the longer time it will take.
Not sure why your naturopath has decreased the amount of EMPowerplus – but perhaps it is because of their new/advanced formula that is now even more bio-available. Meaning that everyone taking the new product can reduce their intake….because it is much more effective.
it may be a year since you started feeling this way – and wound up on this journey – but once you get your nutritional levels up -think of all the wonderful years you will still have.
Have shared your post with Teresa at Truehope – will see what she has to say.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi Leslie,
I have been experiencing hormonal imbalances since birth of my daughter 3 years ago. Over the last 3 years I have been diagnosed with everything, Food allergies, pmdd,depression, anxiety, cervical dystonia ( due to neck spasms). I chart my cycles and some months they are light with no cramps and some months heavy and clotty. I experience severe dry scaly skin to oily t-zone breakouts. I don’t feel like myself. I have lost my job of 12 years and I feel like my doctors want to just keep giving me more and more medication which seems to make things worse. I have a loving husband but we went from having a great sex life to none at all, I barely want him to hug me, and that is not me or how I want to be.
Also,I was reading some of the above posts and I received Gardisil when it first came out. Any suggestions you can provide are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Mandy
Hello, Mandy – It seems that your hormone imbalance symptoms may be nutrition related – especially since they started after the birth of your daughter.
It is the only route you have not tried.
It does appear that you had a severe reaction to Gardasil –
Did you ever replace the nutrients in your body after your pregnancy?
Synthetic vitamins are worthless – and prenatals are not absorbed by the body. They are stored.
I am learning so much about how important it is to have vitamins and minerals in perfect proportion to one another to be effective.
Also it is important that you are able to digest them.
If you want more information email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I have just spent the last two days looking for a website like this. I am experiencing feelings or anxiety and panic for no apparent reason. I am 32 years old, i have a wonderful husband and stepson and overall my life is really good, i have a few worries but no more than your average woman and certainly nothing that would cause me to panic. So why in the last few months have i felt this way? It starts with a tingling in my arms (i call them my ants as it feels like i have millions of them running up and down my arms) then my heart starts to race and i feel like i cant breath, i dont feel like ‘bad things’ are going to happen to the people i love or have any feelings of impending doom and i know its not my heart as i recently got checked out by the doctor. I had a chest xray, heart monitor and blood tests and physically there is nothing wrong at all.
I started taking the Micronor at 17 until i was 22 then i had the contraceptive injection (depo) from 22-27 i then had an implant from 27-30 (because i was told that it was bad to stay on the depo for a great deal of time) before going back on micronor at 30 then 6 months ago i had a mirena coil fitted. In the last three months i have experienced night sweats before my peroid, anxiety, heart racing, not being able to sleep, moods like you wouldn’t believe, sometimes i am so horrible to my husband i dont know how he puts up with it then a few hours later i look back and wonder who that person was because it couldnt have been me.
I just dont know what to do? I had the coil fitted as we hope to try and start a family at the end of the year and thought it would be easier to have that taken out when we were ready and could start trying straight away rather than waiting for the pill to get out of my system, but honestly i dont feel in the right mental state to look after myself sometimes let alone a baby.
What’s the answer? Is it more B vitamins? Progesterone? I already eat very well i perhaps dont excercise as much as i should be overall i am very healthy. I could do with a magic wand!
Hello, Emma – I am so glad you found this site.
The magic wand is a nutritional supplement with bio-available micronutrients – vitamins, minerals, amino acids that will optimize your brain health – and balance the nruo-endocrine-immune system functioning.
Between the synthetic hormones which depleted nutrients in your body – and your pregnancy which depleted what little reserves you have left you are now experiencing a combination of hormone imbalance and nutrient depletion. Such an easy fix.
However, women are scouring the Internet, looking for a disease-specific product that will rid them of a particular annoying symptom. WE are caught up in the ‘a pill for every ill’ mentality.
Reclaiming health through smart supplementation does not work that way. Nutrients are not medicine or drugs. Drugs force an effect but often at the cost of incurring dangerous side effects. Nutrients, on the other hand, work with the body’s own, innate intelligence, supplying the body with an entire workshop of tools it knows precisely how to use to achieve, protect, preserve and extend its own peak health, all without risk or side effects.
There you have it in a nutshell.
You can start feeling better by next week.
That is why I have the Q 96 product on my site….. to help women break away from the old paradigm of ‘medicating’ to get into the new paradigm of ‘healing’.
No one can eat well enough anymore. The nutrients are no longer in the food or the soil. And they are too many endocrine disruptors and toxins in the environment to be able to sustain ourselves without getting nutritional support.
Email me if you want more information.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Sorry Emma – I read your post wrong. You have not yet had a baby…. well, if you do not get these nutrients now – your symptoms will be that much worse after your pregnancy.
No more synthetic hormones. Get your man to wear a condom for awhile. You need to get that crap out of your system, and you need to get healthy before having a baby.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com
Leslie
hi leslie, ive have had anxiety off an on since i was 11 yrs old. i have always dealt with it an never really got bad until 2 yrs ago. im 37 now an i had a traumatic experience that since me into a spiral of hell. i had a wisdom tooth pulled an it was horrible experience an after that i started getting shaking all over anxiety. i went to my doctor an they did blood work an everything came back normal so they put me on celexa an that started a hell of high anxiety majoe depression an horrible insomna. ive never had a problem sleeping until now. over the course of 2 years ive been swithced to other antidepressant an anti-anxiety meds. i just want to feel normal like i did before this happend,i cry alot an no body understands what im going through. reading autumn stringhams story gives me hope for i fear i will die from this because i feel so not normal,tired anxious,weak an its really shook my family to its core. no doctor has been able to help me. i never know day to day how i will feel! please help me with advice on what might be wrong. i feel im living in hell an hate it.
Hello, Meg – No doctor has been able to help you because they are not trained in nutrition. Specifically, nutrition to the brain – so that it can function – and so it can then balance all of the other systems in the body. This is not rocket science. This was the wisdom that was known before medicine came in and took over.
I am glad you read Autumn’s story – it is a story of hope – and promise.
Over 100,000 people have been helped by the EMPower Plus product?
Why is it no longer on my site?
Because Truehope is now working with Q Sciences and have developed a better product that is more bio-available, more effective – and more affordable.
When you read the ingredients in your meds – do you see anything that might nutrate your body? No – all the ingredients actually take more nutrients out of your body.
You have hormone imbalance and you are nutritionally depleted. Beginning and the end of the story.
The sad part is – we have come to expect these feelings to be ‘normal’ – I call them ‘Socially Acceptable Mental Illness’ or SAMI.
This is not normal. You should and can be happy, vibrant and hopeful.
Take the first steps today.
You will be feeling better by next week.
The ball is in your court, Meg.
But I am here to support you.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am so happy I found this site. I have felt so lost and alone through what I believe is hormonal imbalance. Here is my story: I am 25 years old. I had very bad cystic acne throughout my entire teen life. From about age 12-20. I went to my family doctor and all they did was give me medicated creams that took care of the cysts but did not prevent the acne from coming back. I finally became so fed up that I seeked the help of a dermatologist. I rasied my concerns to her about this being a hormonal problem but that got ignored and I was put on Accutane. I had to take 3 rounds of it just to get the acne to stop from coming back. I must say this did help with the acne. I no longer get cystic acne, but I do get pimples here and there. I should also mention that I was put on Diane 35 back when I was 18 but had to stop due to being diagnosed with epilepsy that same year. My issue now is I have been dealing with depression, severe mood swings, raging PMS, painful cramps, lack of concentration, fatigue, and I now get whiskers on my face. I am absolutely miserable. My husband always tells me that I am always miserable and I have no clue why. I feel like I have no control over my life. I wish I could control my mood. The week before my period is the worst. I literally hate my husband and treat him like utter garbage for no reason at all. I went to the doctor and he told me to see a psychologist. I have been seeing a psychologist now off and one for 2 years. It helps for the moment but then within a few months I am back there. I suffer from stress, fear, and anxiety to the point I get scared to answer the phone. Everything makes me anxious. I just don’t know what to do or where to begin to get this fixed as I feel like my family doctor does not listen to me or is unwilling to run the right tests to find answers. I should also mention that as soon as my period comes I feel instantly happier. My husband tells me that for the week of my period and the week after I am the best person ever and then I start to change. The worst part is I have no idea that my mood has changed. I really want my life to be better. I just have no clue where to begin and I have no clue what is causing all of this. Please help!
Nutritional supplements and natural progesterone.
You are experiencing hormone related mood swings – also known as bipolar disorder.
That you are not aware of the shift – is indicative to me that you are so caught up in the rabbit hole of your mind you are unable to perceive the difference in your mood changes.
Maybe you do not have a ‘classified’ or medical diagnosis of bi polar…. but you and your husband deserve better things than this.
You will be seeing a psychologist for the rest of your life – just like an addict is in and out of recovery for the rest of their lives IF AND only IF the brain is not repaired.
Please call Truehope.com and get the EMPowerplus supplements. They were designed specifically for people like yourself.
Why wait until you fall so deep into the rabbit hole that you cannot get out…and you indeed get diagnosed with some disorder or another and then prescribed some drug for what ails you that will further mess up your bio chemical balance.
Be proactive.
Call Truehope – listen to their medical expertise and get your life back.
Make sure you read through everything on their site.
And that your husband does to.
One thing is for sure Toni – you are not in control of you mood shifts. They are in control of you.
And you can get your life back.
You will be feeling better within days of being on the supplements.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi! I came across this website while researching some of my symptoms. I am 26yrs old, i have three children, my youngest is 8months old.(oldest is 5yrs) I am currently still breastfeeding my 8month old. The past 8days i have had horrible hot flashes,night sweats(which ive had those since delivery), i am extremely tired, i have heart palpitations and a racing heart all day and night and it takes my breath away. It comes and goes but i usually start with feeling really hot, i get clammy and start sweating, my heart will race, ill get dizzy and sometimes hear ringing in my ears like i will pass out. I havent passed out though. I have shortness of breath a lot,, sometimes mild sometimes worse. I also get mild headaches, feel sick to my stomach on and off, my hands get kind of dumb and tingly sometimed and one day i was very weak and my arm and leg muscles felt like mush, like i had just done a major workout.
I called my Gyno and she did labwork to check my thyroid but never called back(3days ago). I have upped my protein to 80grams a day, added more calories and i drink plenty of water. I dont ever drink caffeine and hardly no sweets. I eat VERY healthy, mostly organic, hardly no chemicals in our diet which is a recent change. I also have lost weight rapidly(ive gone from 161 at pregnancy to 112 in 7 months time, i lost 70% of that weight in three months time after delivery) i am 5’4 and normal weight is between 115 and 120.
Ive seen cardioligists in the past for heart palpitations and fainting but everything always checked out fine. My blood work was always fine, paps are always fine. I am wondering if this is just from breastfeeding and if i should stop, or if its hormonal issues. I do stress a lot but i dont have the racing thoughts, i am not having crazy dreams, I dont have panick attacks. Just wanted a second opinion. Im debating wether i need to see a family Dr or not! Thanks
Oh and p.s. ive never taken birthcontrol in my life and i dont take any medications. Just a prenatal and protein shakes made of all organic stuff from brown rice.
Tiffany
Tiffany – is your prenatal organic?
Perhaps what you need is a supplement that targets the brain – like amino acids. That is where hormone production starts.
I bet there are no amino acids, or minerals in your prenatal vitamin.
Besides, if you are taking the ‘prescribed’ or ‘recommended’ dosage as we all do…. but if you were nutrient deficient going into your pregnancy (genetics is a big one here – what is your family history of illness) than you need more than the recommended dosage.
There are a lot of reasons why you are experiencing this hormone imbalance at an early age.
How about your mother’s use of synthetic hormones – or you grandmother’s????? Estrogen mimickers build up in the body.
Am sure you are aware of how dangerous plastics are…. and would you assume you have eliminated that.
But did not you know that over 3,000 toxic chemicals have been found in umbilical cords?
It does sound like your ratio of estrogen to progesterone is off.
You would really like this Progessence Plus in essential oils on my site.
Also come back tomorrow and you will see a new product – Q Sciences – with a bioavailable supplement for optimum brain health.
Oh, that is the other thing I wanted to say….. you could be taking all the right stuff – but if you ‘gut’/digestive system is not functioning correctly then the vitamins you are taking are not be absorbed. It does appear you are experiencing estrogen dominance related anxiety.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi,
I wrote back in late December and have since found out that Leslie really knows what she is talking about. Especially about nutrient depletion. PLEASE if you are reading this, know there is hope for you. My symptoms were heart palpitations, chest pain, aches all over my body, dizziness, terrible anxiety and just not feeling like myself. WELL, it turned out that I was Vitamin D deficient, a functional anemic and had low vitamin B12. Also, I only found out this because I requested a copy of my lab work. My doctor claimed my blood work came back fine, I swear they only look at cholesterol levels these days. Anyways, when I got the copy of the blood work, I went to see a Naturopath who said my regular doctor should have been treating me for these things. Now I am taking supplements and I feel ALOT better! So please ladies, make sure you are taking some vitamins, and always get a copy of your blood work so you can look at it yourself.
My dear Rhonda – Thank you for posting. Thank you for reading and thank you for listening. We really are in control of our health. You have shown us just that. I am so grateful you are feeling better. Vitamin D- sunshine – and how many of us are outside soaking in the rays? Hells bells – these days we are soaking in rays from tanning beds – convinced that the beds are safer than the sunshine. What a crazy world we live in.
I know that nutrient supplementation sounds so simple to those of you who have suffered from so many ailments for so long. But the bottom line is – you have all tried the meds – and you know they do not work – and nutritional supplementation is the only thing you have not tried.
Am so glad sought out a naturopath too Rhonda. We all need to be working with practitioners who are versed in all aspects of our wellness. Physicians have been trained in finding and treating ‘disease’. There is a big difference.
Blessings to you Rhonda – Enjoy your good health and look forward to getting even healthier.
Leslie
Hi Leslie,
I posted back in December 2012 and just had a follow-up question that I hope you would share with me which may benefit others as well. After being on birth control for many years, I have had an extremely hard time coming off of them mainly due to depresdion and bad anxiety. I have seen a naturopath and I’m currently on vitamin D, a whole food multivitamin, And some other supplements to help my adrenal glands. I am currently getting my hormones checked through salivary testing. I was put on Lexapro to help deal with this, but do not feel that this is helping. I am planning to wean myself off of it. Unfortunately, I did go back on the birth control when all this started due to severe anxiety and wanted to feel back to normal! I do plan to go off soon . My question is: do you hear of people having ocd type thoughts , of an unpleasant nature, from hormonal imbalance? I have never had anxiety or ocd and am 36 tears old now. I have read a few other women’s forums where this is reported. Almost like a chemically induced postpartum anxiety/ocd. I’m trying to figure out why this happens . I am so desperate to get back to normal.
Thanks so much!
Kristen
Hello, Kristen – so glad to have you back. Yes, I have heard about women suffering from OCD and anxiety from hormone imbalance. Hormone functioning begins in the brain. NeuroScience Inc. another company I work with Calls this the NEI Super System
Love how you coined this a ‘chemically induced postpartum anxiety/ocd’. And that is what it is. Why? We are overexposed to chemicals – especially BPA in plastic – which contain estrogen mimickers and we are underexposed to nutrients. It really is not rocket science.
Now I have been endorsing Truehope EMPowerplus because the nutritional supplements in this product are targeted to brain health – and they contain micronized nutrients so that they nutritional value is being digested and absorbed not stored. Those of you on over the counter vitamins even from the health food store – may not be getting the full benefit because the gut- also known as the ‘second brain’ may also be damaged. This is why the Truehope product is so very important.
However, Truehope is now working with Q Sciences and has developed a product specifically for hormone health. The product is much more affordable. I will be putting this information on my site this weekend.
Kristen – contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com – and I promise you will feel better in a couple of weeks.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I have actually been feeling slightly better since attempting to cleanse my body from any synthetic hormones since i was on birth control but am still very tired and achy. I have been doing a juice cleanse in the morning, taking dandelion tea, milk thistle, burdock root, and lots of water with a little apple cider vinegar. I take all of the vitamins i need and do not have any types of stds. I actually just received my third hpv vaccine a few days ago when i got my blood taken (which i still do not have results from.) I didn’t know about the strange side effects from these and really wish i knew about them before getting them done. The only thing that has changed since getting the last one is a slight swelling of the injection spot and my lips which could be unrelated. About my painful periods my mother suggested that i take maca root capsules once i make sure nothing is wrong with my thyroid. Thank you for listening it is really helping lots of people who are really scared.
Anna – you need to be detoxing – and you need additional nutrients. Glad you are doing a cleanse – but it is the heavy metals in the HPV vaccine that are more of a problem.
I wish I had known you have been getting the HPV vaccine. There are many girls who are experiencing side effects. Do not be scared – be proactive. Please contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com. I will walk you through this. You need a lot of nutrients now to help your neuro-endocrine-immune system.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am so glad I found this site. I was starting to feel so alone! Here is my story: I am 26 years old. I started birth control pills when I was 16 years old because I had terrible acne. I was on the pill for 7 years before coming off of it to get pregnant at the age of 24. I got pregnant with my daughter within a few months but my progesterone was low and had to be on progesterone pills the whole first trimester. I had my daughter via emergency c-section. After having my daughter I tried to breastfeed but my milk never came in good and I had a hard time getting her to latch so we started her on formula and I went ahead and got back on my birth control. Three months postpartum my hair started falling out. I had bald spots above my temples. My hair did grow back in, but 2 years after having her my hair was never the same. It was noticeably thinner all over and the texture of it even changed some. After a year of being on the birth control after having my daughter I started getting heart palpitations. The doctor ran all kinds of tests but everything was fine. I decided to go ahead and get off the pill to try for baby number 2 and the heart palpitations went away. A few months later I got pregnant with my son. It was a wonderful pregnancy! I had him via c-section 6 weeks ago and haven’t felt the same since! The first 2 days after he was born I felt great, then on the 3rd I was released from the hospital and my milk came in. I started to get weak and dizzy and felt pressure in my head, I almost passed out so my husband called an ambulance. When they got there they checked my blood sugar and it was in the 50s (I found out I had hypoglycemia in high school but it rarely bothers me because I eat well.) My blood pressure was also 140/93, which is high for me. Everyday since then I have felt terrible with new symptoms. My first few days home I was tired, weak, nauseous, and lightheaded. I also had occasional headaches and pressure in my head and sometimes face. I was REALLY thirsty all the time and my eyes were really dry. I also had occasional ear pain or felt like my hearing was more sensitive than usual. I would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat and was having hot flashes. I went to the doctor and they told me I was borderline anemic and had a sinus infection. They told me to continue my prenatal vitamins and gave me augmentin for 7 days. I have always gotten sinus infections and the symptoms I was having didn’t feel like a sinus infection at all. Now I will say that my allergies did occasionally bother me, but I didn’t feel like I had a sinus infection, no runny nose, sore throat, etc. The antibiotics did nothing. I started to think that maybe some of my symptoms were hormone related since it all started the day my milk came in. I was also eating like crazy, but could not get my hypoglycemia under control. I decided to stop breastfeeding my son and we started him on formula. Over the weeks since my son was born I have started to feel better, but I still do not feel like myself. I still have occasional headaches or pressure feeling in my head and sometimes face also. I also still have dizzy spells, I don’t feel like I am going to pass out anymore but sometimes feel off balance. I also occasionally have jumpy vision and it is hard to focus or read. I noticed that when I look in the mirror sometimes my pupils are actually pulsating and I feel like this is what is messing with my vision. I went back to the doctor and she told me that I had allergies and that I could have Labyrinthitis. She started me on singulair, flonase, and high doses of Valtrex. I have noticed that since having my son I also seem to be more sensitive to medication because I have taken all of those medications before, however when I took them this time they made my heart race and I just felt funny the first few hours after taking each medication. I felt like the singulair and flonase was actually making the pressure in my head and face worse so I quit taking them. A new symptom that just started about a week and a half ago is that the top of my forehead to the middle of my scalp feels tight, like I am wearing a hat or something but I am not, sometimes it almost has a burning sensation as well. I recently had my 6 week check up and decided to go back on a low dose birth control pill to see if it would help the hormone imbalance. I took one pill on Sunday night and didn’t really feel any different on Monday. Then, I took the pill Monday night and woke up in the middle of the night and could not go back to sleep. I felt funny, and was having chest pain, no trouble breathing, just a dull ache. I think I was having a little bit of an anxiety attack (another symptom that I occasionally get since having my son.) I was up for a few hours and finally fell to sleep only to wake up feeling nauseous and having abdominal pain. I went to my doctor and told her I really felt like something is off-balance inside of me, being that this all happened 2-3 days after my son was born. I am having all these random symptoms and am all of a sudden sensitive to medicine I have taken before. She agreed with me and decided to send me to an Endocrinologist for further testing. My appointment is next week. Until then she recommended that I continue the birth control, take zyrtec for my allergies and she prescribed me a low dose muscle relaxer to help with the scalp/forehead sensitivity and tightness ( which I am scared to take given how I am reacting to medication right now.) I also had blood work done again and am no longer anemic, and everything looked good except my liver enzymes were slightly elevated. She said that could be due to the pregnancy. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is it normal to be more sensitive to medicine after having a baby, can hormones cause this? Did you ever feel good again? I feel like I am the worst wife/mom ever and am starting to worry that I will never be myself again. Could this all really be hormones, even the head pressure and scalp/forehead feeling? I am desperate to get better and am trying my best to not lose hope.
Sorry this is so long…I am just hoping to find some answers and maybe some words of encouragement that this is not permanent! :/
Holy Smokes Mary- that is a story – and if I am reading the posts correctly – you wrote your story twice.
You have had a lot of emotion built up inside you.
I do not know. When I read these stories – and I read them objectively – I wonder why we bother going to the doctor’s at all?
I know that sounds horrible…. but read what Mary has gone through – and every time she walks out of the doctor’s office it is with a RX for another drug for another symptom.
All of them further interfering with the body’s attempts to heal itself.
We have to start thinking differently about our lives and ourselves. I have said this before we are at the crossroads of ‘healing’ or medicating.
Mary – you need nutrition. What do you want me to say?
You were nutritionally depleted going into this pregnancy – judging by your history – and your beautiful pregnancy drained you of every last vitamin, mineral, amino acid, enzyme you had in reserve. Prenatals are synthetic. They are not absorbed at the cellular level – they are stored in the body fat. They are a joke.
You have tried everything else. There are no drugs to make up for nutrient depletion.
You should be enjoying your motherhood – and this time with your baby and your husband.
You are experiencing severe hormone imbalance post- pregnancy or ‘postpartum’ depression – PPD.
I encourage you to call Truehope today and get on the EMPowerplus now.
You will be feeling much better by next week.
Their product has worked miracles for many women suffering from PPD.
Start with nutrition. That is the first and most important step.
You have to get on a product you can digest – that is why the micronutrients in the EMPowerplus are so important.
When you look at it – nutrients are the only thing you have not tried.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hey I’m 20, and within these past 4 months I feel like I’ve gone stagnant. I have almost constant anxiety, palpitations, ugly bad cystic acne, hot flashes, weakness and dizzy spells… I am not myself. I went to the doc and he gave me Xanax and it isn’t helping me. My skin care lady told me she’s seen a lot of gals like me come in and that they ended up having hormonal problems, and cysts on their ovaries. And that plastic and our generation is prone to things like this due to it. I now finally know what’s going on, as I knew there was something wrong with me. I’m not depressed! I’m not unhappy! I want to live I love my life! I don’t need pills, I need to regulate my hormones.
Bravo Uni! And that is what our battle cry should be. Your depression and anxiety and unhappiness in your life is due to over exposure to estrogen mimickers in the environment in addiction to an onslaught of food products that are devoid of nutrition. This is the crossroads – the door is opening for women to take their own health in their hands because they synthetics in our environment – including birth control and medications are useless. They mask the symptoms.
For the hundreds of you who have followed these posts – you know I have been espousing Truehope EMPowerplus as an amazing nutrient for brain health which then affects endocrine and immune health. Well, many of you who pursued the product found out that it was expensive…. those of you who pursued it anyway found out that it was expensive – but it works and you are in hormone induced anxiety recovery.
Well, this week, I will be putting a new and improved EMPowerplus called Qssentials that has been specifically designed for hormone health. The folks at Truehope are involved with this new company….and they are making this new product more affordable than the EMP. Yes, it is multi level marketing. Sigh. However, as my friend Teresa states – it is a company designed for women to help other women thrive while gaining financial prosperity.
Look at the 600 comments here – and each one of us knows at least 20 other women who are suffering – and who are on synthetic hormones and Xanax and other SSRI’s – and who are just plain unhappy. And those 20 know 20 more – and it goes on and on.
Uni – you need to get nutrients into you. The brain health is the new healing paradigm. Nutrate the brain – and the rest of the body begins to function.
Nautural progesterone will work fine – but unless the brain is getting the nutrients it needs, the endocrine and immune systems will always be off balance. Hormone production begins in the brain. I love this diagram: https://www.neurorelief.com/index.php?p=cms&cid=108&pid=85.
Keep watching. Will be getting this information on my blog shortly.
Here’s to our hormonal health!
Leslie
I am 17 years old and i have been going through hell the past few weeks. I started having anxiety attacks in school along with chest pains, cold hands and feet, and thinning nails and hair so i stopped taking my birth control i was put on to help with my painful periods. I still feel awful and am having sleeping and stomach problems as well. I got my blood tested but have not gotten results back yet for anything. Could all of this be due to taking birth control for 8 months? i haven’t felt like myself since starting them and want to be normal again and be able to do good in school.
Hello, Anna – this may be due to your birth control. Too much estrogen and too little progesterone. Were you put on the pill? Were you vaccinated for HPV?
What they will be measuring is the levels of estrogen and progesterone. What is important are the ratio of one to the other.
You have some hormone imbalance going on here – that needs to get sorted out before it gets worse. Birth control only masks the symptoms – it does not take care of the problem.
You are aware you still have to use condoms and spermicide for protection from STD’s right?
Are you eating well?
Taking odd vitamins?
I can share a simple exercise on how to stop painful periods….. Do you Skype?
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
for got add my age im 28 yr old
Hi my name is ashley i started birthcontrol pill at age 15. My mother felt better with me going o depo shot that would get every three months. while on this shot i never had a period no spotting gained a lot of weight. i went from 120 to 156 in year or 2. at that point i was really grossed out with myself. when i turned 18 i got off the shot and waited to have a period when i did have on after 3 years of not it was painful when i started that day i had went to the bathroom and looked to be a plugg or something came out i was like ok maybe its from the shot.So after a year i got back on birth control this time the patch. i had to be taken off it cause the doctor thought it caused a blood clot in my leg. so time went on i startred having messed up periods i bleed for a mounth or two then i would bleed for three or four it got so bad i went under for surgey to see what was going on my gyno at the time said everything looked fine. that i was produceing enough estrogen i felt fine mentaly i was about 20 the pills and they did not help. so ended up see another gyno who told me i had polycystic fybroids and told me if i did not have them removed or taken care of that i would not be able to have kids. well i did not listen i ended up getting married and for four years it took me to get prego. so when i was in shock i had my first baby by c section and felt fine my whole prego till twards the end i start feel weak or faint my obgyn said i need to take in more protein so i did. after i waited my six weeks i got prego again kids are ten month second baby so my i was told my uters was paper thin if i got prego again it would rupture my uterus. so her i am now about a year ago for no reason at all i wa sleeping i started getting panic. i felt like a creepy crawly feeling . it got worse i started having pain just on the left side of my body this panic feelin of what if this happenought it would go away its what if im dying what if its my heart lasted all that summer everytime i lost intreast in sex with my husband i just wanted to get better i was moody all the time crying in raged or just depressed. so as of today i stared getting back to bleeding all the time heavy. i went to er they tried to put me on bc pills i said no because i think thats where it all started. so over a year noe iv been dig. with anxity depression my everything. i do get hot flashes sometime others i freezing i feel dizzy light head or just like crapright now im take xanax for anxity iv been out of myself for a year now and i just want my life back could this have something to do with my hormons
Ashly – 28 is too young to be nutritionally depleted and hormonally imbalanced.
Every pregnancy takes every vitamin, mineral and every other nutrient you have. If you do not replace this – your symptoms will only get worse.
Yes – to your questions. Depo got you off on the wrong foot – and you have not since recovered.
All manageable.
Will be glad to consult with you.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hey Leslie and hello to all,
Just got a minute to read some of the most recent posts. I am 50 and when I read about the things that are being posted it makes me NEED to say something…From OCD to depression, to anxiety, to being moody, I have had them all and not until I got help from a doc that specializes in this problem did I see light at the end of the tunnel. Girls, listen to what is being said hear and know that you can feel better and not have those ups and down and all arounds. Feel confident that there is an answer and then pursue it with a vigor! Don’t let the general practitioner tell you you are crazy or that it just “isn’t your hormones”. Be persistent with your desire to be well. I know I am speaking in such generalities, but I have been there. Sometimes I still am but mostly I’m not and that is good. Hormones affect us sooooo deeply. I thought I might share this story…
My daughter has a friend who has a sister that has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and attachment disorder. She has been struggling with this and was formally diagnosed when she was 19. Sadly, she got pregnant 5 years later and just delivered her baby. Here where I think this story applies…during her pregnancy and the subsequent birth of her son she behaved in a normal manner. She talked about her up-coming birth and connected with her family in a way that they had not experienced before with her. Additionally, when her child was born she bonded with him immediately and was excited about being a mother. Lots of other things went on after that but for our purposes here…one must see clearly the POWERFUL impact our hormones and our nutrition have on our ENTIRE system, including THE BRAIN! So you see, it can be solved, and thank God there are people like Leslie in this world to guide us and allow us to voice our opinions.
Hang in there and be encouraged.
Cheryl
Hi Leslie,
I posted back in December 2012 and just had a follow-up question that I hope you would share with me which may benefit others as well. After being on birth control for many years, I have had an extremely hard time coming off of them mainly due to depresdion and bad anxiety. I have seen a naturopath and I’m currently on vitamin D, a whole food multivitamin, And some other supplements to help my adrenal glands. I am currently getting my hormones checked through salivary testing. I was put on Lexapro to help deal with this, but do not feel that this is helping. I am planning to wean myself off of it. Unfortunately, I did go back on the birth control when all this started due to severe anxiety and wanted to feel back to normal! I do plan to go off soon . My question is: do you hear of people having ocd type thoughts , of an unpleasant nature, from hormonal imbalance? I have never had anxiety or ocd and am 36 tears old now. I have read a few other women’s forums where this is reported. Almost like a chemically induced postpartum anxiety/ocd. I’m trying to figure out why this happens . I am so desperate to get back to normal.
Thanks SO Very much !!!
Kristen
Hi – I imagine I am 23 and imagine I am experiencing all the symptoms of hypothyroidism. Both of my parents suffer from it. The anxiety you describe is so in keeping with my experience. I am in therapy currently, but have always had the sense that what I suffer from is not straight-up mental illness. There have certainly been times when I’ve been mentally ill (just as with any other illness one might ‘catch’), but these times have been isolated and / or directly correlated to events occurring in my life. Yet the creeping anxiety, the sense of uneasiness, and most importantly the resulting ‘debilitating behavior patterns’ (which for me manifests as…an increasing paralysis when it comes to engaging with the world even in the most basic ways) – these feelings dominate my life. I just graduated from college last May (a year late), and I am less involved with the things / people that are important to me than I ever have been.
Argh. Thank you for reading – it is helpful to know someone is listening and not just shaking their head like, “you’re a hypochondriac – just change your attitude and you’ll be fine!”
If you have any information or suggestions about what I might do to break this cycle, it would be quite welcome.
Hey T- You can stop imagining and know it is real. You are not mentally ill. Hormone imbalance – nutrient deficiency.
I wish I could convince all 600 women who have posted here – to think outside of the box. Let’s face it – thinking inside of the box is killing all of you.
Diagnosis after diagnosis – switching from one birth control method to another – one SSRI to another.
You know when they say ‘it is all in your mind’ and we get upset and furious and not being heard?
WELL IT IS ALL IN OUR MIND. Our brain is not getting the nutrients it needs to survive. Someone develops an addiction – and all 600 of you develop hormone imbalance anxiety.
Thousands of others have autoimmune disease – or neurological diseases – or you name it.
The hormones are the body’s messengers – and when they ain’t happy – no one is happy.
Everything I suggest is on the side bar of this blog.
It is researched and documented – and their are published studies on these products.
I have done the work for all of you.
It is your choice now.
You cannot change your attitude until your brain gets nutrition.
It is as simple as that.
Amazing grace.
Let me know how I can help any of you order.
I promise you will feel better in days.
What better guarantee than that?
Does your doctor/psych/therapist guarantee that?
Hell, no.
But I will.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello. I am new to blogging, but stumbled upon this site and decided to post. I am 25 years old and suffer from anxiety and panic attacks, as well as chronic migraines. I have been suffering from migraines (and the anxiety, etc). since I was a little girl. In 2nd grade, I started treatment in the form of biofeedback therapy to learn how to control my body and “relax.” In elementary school I always excelled (education always came naturally to me) but I would still let my nerves get the best of me; I missed the first day of school on several occasions because I’d be so nervous I’d vomit through the night, and I missed solos in choir because my nerves would give me a soar throat and fever. I literally made myself sick. But at that age, what is there to “stress” about?? There was definitely an increase in my anxiety when I hit puberty (just shy of age 11). I’d hit histeria on vacations worrying I wouldn’t get my projects for the Gifted and Talented Education program completed on time, but would complete them in minutes when I’d get home. My emotions were (and are) irrational. My mom liked to call me moody. I probably was. Because of my anxiety and migraines, I also suffered from depression though an outsider could not tell. I was always extremely social but then spent hours bawling at night. Very hard to maintain happiness when constantly in pain and restless. When I started college, my neurologist placed me on Topomax (an anti seizure med used to treat migraines) as it was hypothesized that my depression stemmed from the headaches. I was on that as well as some anxiety med that I immediately got off of. The topomax gave me severe side effects; tingling in my arms and legs, poor memory, loss of word recognition (i felt stupid), and probably most importantly, suicidal thoughts. I know I was supposed to taper off, but because i was scared of the side effects and had to function while studying at UCLA, i got off everything cold turkey. Since then, I have been taking migraine meds at the onset of my migraines instead of preventative medications. The one good side effect of topomax is that I had significant weight loss. (about 20 pounds). Once I got off the meds, however, all my weight came back plus 30+ pounds. I literally gained 40 pounds practically overnight. It has been years now, and I cant seem to get the weight off. I have a trainer, watch what I eat, and yet my weight just keeps increasing and increasing. My dr has no explanation as all my bloodwork came back normal. I should mention I also have/had ovarian cycts which i know make it difficult to lose weight, but i am on birth control which is supposed to make it better. (I dont know). My gyno thinks that maybe i have adrenal disorder which isn’t recognized by all. My trainer is convinced something is wrong w me, as is my family. I went to see the dr today who is making me take the xanax he has prescribed several times; a small dose 3x/day. Becuase I am in law school and just several months from taking the bar, i am definitely going to take the advice re the xanax, as I am already freaking out and wont be able to survive the next x months under these conditions. I also have issues w my digestion; sometimes i cant excrete for days so i keep eating but hold in all the toxins, and then sometimes i go several times a day. I sweat a lot in random times, sometimes my hands shake even when not stressed, i tend to get really thirsty, and vomit a lot more than i’d like. When i exercise, it is almost a given i will feel ill after. The dr today put me on a med for acid reflux, so hopefully the combo of that and the xanax will make me feel better. BUT, I get really disheartened and upset to know that everything is attributed to my anxiety… “Relax.” How I hate that word. I understand that my blood work at the physician’s came back normal. But is it possible i still have a hormonal imbalance that isnt being picked up? I feel like it is a cop-out to attribute everythign to my anxiety without questioning why I have the anxiety… I realize a lot of it is personality related as I am a perfectionist, etc. but i KNOW it is completely irrational. There has to be a reason why my nerves got amplified when i started my cycle, right? Oh, and I should mention that before startign birth control, my cycle was COMPLETELY out of whack; sometimes my period would last a month, and sometimes id have it for only a day. Also, my migraines get much worse during my period (my previous doctor diagnosed me with PMDD). Isn’t this all proof of hormonal irregularities? Why is it not showing in my lab test by my physician? I am so desperate at this point. I almost want something to be wrong with me so I know i am not creating this myself. I am losing motivation in watching what i eat and exercising because I just keep gaining weight, and while you cant tell looking at me, i fall in the “obese” category. Now, ontop of all the other stressors, I now worry that I will develop diabetes or will have a shorter life span… I know that i can do a better job of exercising…. find time to do it 5 or 6 times a week instead of 3 or 4. Or not cheat on my diet when i do…but even still, i am certainly not eating everything in site and being a couch potato. Over the last couple months during which i started first counting my calories, and now i just eat proportioned meals every 3 hours as i was eating under my appropriate caloric intake, i gained 8 pounds!!!! (3 pounds since just 3 weeks ago or so). Is there any explanation???? I know it could be muscle as i am training, but even if im gaining muscle, why is my fat not going anywhere? Something in my gut tells me it is hormonal. Please advise! thank you
Hello, Ilana – you are experiencing what every other woman is posting about here – and that is hormone imbalance related anxiety – it is happening at an earlier and earlier age. You are also probably nutrient depleted – especially with the school schedule you are keeping.
Don’t let anybody tell you – that everything you are experiencing is due to your anxiety. That is like telling an addict that everything he/she is feeling is due to their drugging or alcohol use. And you cannot relax – because the deeper problem is a a malfunctioning neuro/endocrine/immune system.
I suggest you seek out an endocrinologist. Endos are much better at working with hormone imbalance issues that regular doctors. Endos are trained in this field.
Please respond to me here and let me know where you live – or email me at leslie@holyhormones.com and I will help you find a practitioner in your area that can work with you.
In the meantime – contact Truehope today – about their EMPowerplus supplement. You need immediate nutrition – all of these drugs are depleting nutrients.
It is very important that you talk with some of their medical experts and get on a regime they suggest. That is the most important thing.
Nutrating the brain is crucial. Once the brain is getting the nutrition it needs – then the endocrine and immune systems start becoming more balanced.
Truehope professionals will also guide you to a practitioner in your area who is using micronutrients for healing.
This is only a beginning – but it is a good start.
You are living in fear – due to your anxiety and I understand that.
Contact me here or by email and let me help you find a practitioner that can be of help to you.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi Cheryl, Leslie, and Teresa. I am 32 yr old who just go informed that I am dying due to hormone imbalance. I desperately need some help and your advice. I have been bulimic for 20 years pretty severely and I was diagnosed with PCOS and hypothyroidism for past 14 years. Now they are saying they are unsure if I have been diagnosed correct with both conditions. Due to my long-term eating disorder, I have been abusing phentermine, metformin, levoxyl, and HCG drops for a long time. My period has been always irregular or almost never there or spotty. My hair falls so much that I have 30% hair compared to before. My teeth, nail and bones are so brittle that my doc is saying that I should cautious of any activity so I won’t break my bones especially hips. Any of injuries even superficial cuts never heal, my skin used to be breaking out so badly but now it is extremely dry everywhere including my eyes that I have allergy like symptoms everywhere, wrinkles, skin sagging bruises so easily, I am having some memory loss. Panic attacks used to there so frequently but it happens every few days now. Mood swings (outburst anger) and phobia are still there at all time though. BUT …most painful symptoms are no energy, JOINTS PAINTS EVERYWHERE, and insomnia. I was diagnosed with Degenerative Disk Disease about a year ago. On top of my existing condition of Eating disorder, Hypothyroidism, and PCOS (misdiagnosed), I had a three series of epidural shots. Since then I have been having more severe symptoms of pain all over my body, hair falling, skin allergy, dryness and many more…
I am currently on Levoxyl 50mcg (they have changed 125 to 50 ), they have put me on birth control (Syeda to increase both estrogen and progestrone: I am too scared to be on this after reading your website), Carvedilol (hypertention as needed basis), Zyrtac (anti-acid from bulimia) zinc, Vitamin D (3000u. daily), Vitamin (2000u daily), vitamin E (500mg), Zyflamend whole body (new chapter), Ginger (New Chapter), Estrotone (New Chapter), Life shield immunity (New Chapter), Probiotic (New Chapter), b-12. Bone-strength take care (New Chapter), Fish oil (omega 3), lastly, some vitamin called “healthy nail, hair, skin” (Kroger brand). I would love to stop taking all prescribed meds like (Syeda and Levoxyl). Is that possible? Am I on too much natural meds. I was even thinking about taking coconut oil and applying mustard oil on my hair too.
Here is my blood test results:
– Low: Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy: 20.6 even I have been taking Vitamin D (normal range: 30-100)
Progesterone: 0.1 (normal range: 0.2-1.4)
17-OH Progesterone LCMS: 18 (normal range:27-199)
DHEA-Sulfate: 87.9 (normal range: 160-449)
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!! :'(
Hello, Monica – What kind of doctors are you seeking out?
You definitely have hormone imbalance… but never heard anyone die from this condition.
However, if any condition goes on unchecked and the right diagnosis and or right treatment recommended than problems will ensue.
If the vitamins you are on are synthetic – they are not doing you any good. They are being stored – not absorbed at the cellular level.
My very strong suggestion is that you seek out an endocrinologist – they understand hormone imbalance and analysis.
General doctors – as a rule do not.
And you should also seek out a naturopath – someone who will be able to guide you to good health.
The body has the natural inclination to heal itself and be well.
All of the drugs your are on and synthetic hormones are impeding that.
I am floored you are on Estrotone – when PCOS, hair falling out, insomnia wrinkles are all indicative of estrogen dominance.
Please respond to me here and let me know where you live – or email me at leslie@holyhormones.com and I will help you find a practitioner in your area that can work with you.
In the meantime – contact Truehope today – about their EMPowerplus supplement. You need immediate nutrition – all of these drugs are depleting nutrients.
It is very important that you talk with some of the medical experts and get on a regime they suggest. That is the most important thing.
Nutrating the brain is crucial. Once the brain is getting the nutrition it needs – then the endocrine and immune systems start becoming more balanced.
Truehope professionals will also guide you to a practitioner in your area who is using micronutrients for healing.
This is only a beginning – but it is a good start.
You are being medicated – not healed.
All of the medications are complicating things – and interacting with each other.
Please email me ASAP so I can assist you in finding an endocrinologist and/or naturopath.
Call Truehope now – and get some nutritional advice.
They are the most researched micronutrient product on the market with 19 independently published studies.
Looking forward to hearing from you and guiding you as best as I can.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I just finished a great book that addresses this very issue. Are You Tired and Wired? by Marcelle Pick has great info on changes a person can make to bring the body (and hormones!) back into balance. She has a clinic in Yarmouth, Maine (www.womentowomen.com) and helps women nationwide.
I am 27 and trying to have another baby. I was taking birth control and I stopped. I had my period for three months and now it is gone. I would like to know if this is a hormone problem. I heared it could be. I would like my period back so I can have a baby. I would like to know what to eat or take over the counter if I can.
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Hello, Jennifer РSorry I did not answer your last post on my blog. My web site crashed this week – and am waiting for my webmaster to hopefully get it back. I have been unable to reply to anyone’s comments.
It sounds like you are experiencing estrogen dominance from the synthetic hormones in the birth control.
Look into natural progesterone cream… that will stimulate ovulation – and also prevent miscarriage.
You can find out more at your health food store.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am 61 years old and have already gone through menopause, however lately my symtoms are back, but only during the day, severe hot flashes, and sweat. Do I need to go back on some kind of hormone replacement? I also feel tired and sickly most days.
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Hello, Sharon РSorry I did not answer your last post on my blog. My web site crashed this week – and am waiting for my webmaster to hopefully get it back. I have been unable to reply to anyone’s comments.
At 61 you are experiencing a combination of hormone imbalance and nutrient depletion.
You can check into bioidenticals – yes, however I strongly suggest that you get to the health food store and look for a good multivitamin with minerals and amino acids that will nutrate your system. Synthetic vitamins are stored in your body – not absorbed.
Bioidentical hormones will not be as effective unless your body is getting the nutrients it needs.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am 44 years old and have been having hormone problems for the past three years. I think it’s due to me being perimenopausal. All I know is it’s affecting my moods very badly. My moods stem from crying to being angry as hell. Some month’s I skip a period then get one two month’s later. Last month I had two periods, you would think in Jan I would not have one. Wrong! I still had it. I agree with the birth control. I tried it and it totally made me feel uneasy. Plus unfortunately at the age of 34 I was having full blown panic attacks every day. I could not function so I had to be put on clonazepam. The medicine helps but I cannot skip any or I’m in big trouble. I have to have it constant in my bloodstream. I’m on the same dosage since it was prescribed. Funny. I’m on a minoot amount, but I still need it. All I know is my hormones are totally off track and it’s affecting my moods, my sleep and my energy level. I’m normally a very energentic person. But due to these low levels of hormones my energy is basically gone. I want my life back. I heard that eating certain foods can balance hormones. Is this true? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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HI, Emily – sorry I did not answer your last post on my blog.
My web site crashed this week ‚Äì and am waiting for my webmaster to hopefully get it back. I have been unable to reply to anyone’s comments.
You are right you are in perimenopause. In addition you are probably nutrient deficient. It is very hard for anyone to get the nutrients we need (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes) from our food sources anymore – because they are all deficient because the soil in which they grow has become deficient.
Here is a great article that will provide some guidance for you.
Estrogen Dominance
http://www.drnorthrup.com/womenshealth/healthcenter/topic_details.php?topic_id=118
The Clonazepam is only masking your symptoms. You need to focus on healing the problem Dr. Northrup offers some great advice.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
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Hi,
Thanks so much for your reply. Of course, I should have realized that in order to make suggestions, you would need to know what my Naturopath’s suggestions were! I am taking a tincture called Strest – it’s for adrenal support, and contains holy basil, rhodiola, ashwagandha, eleuthero, and milky oat seed. She also suggested taking daily 1000mg vitamin C, 50 mg B complex, calcium and magnesium, Omega 3 fish oil, and a multivitamin containing zinc and iron. And of course, trying to get more sleep, which is difficult with three small children! When all this started, I had some issues with unreasonable anxiety, for which she suggested 500 mg GABA…that is wonderful stuff. What else can I do to try to keep these horrible attacks away?
Hi – Sheri – sorry I did not answer your last post on my blog.
My web site crashed this week – and am waiting for my webmaster to hopefully get it back.
I response to your post about what you are taking – I think you should see how all of these wonderful supplements are affecting your issues before you take on anything else.
GABA is wonderful – and the every other vitamin and nutrient sounds great. Healing takes time… it is not like an antidepressant that masks the symptoms in a couple of days.
Just hold on to the fact that everyday you are getting a little better.
You will feel that. Try and go for a walk – even in the mall – or outside if the weather permits… yoga? Nia class? How about doing something you enjoy.
Perhaps that might be the missing element…. otherwise I think you are doing great.
Once my site is fixed I will post this my response.
Stay in touch… You are going to be fine.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Should I not be eating soy due to estrogen? I’ve been living on Odwalla bars for months. Apparently that’s what they are made with. Sorry for all the questions!!! Thank you sooo much!!!!
Wow! Thank yo so much for your insight! I will check it out asap!
I do have one other question, just after I posted my comment I decided to add another click just to see. It was about 11:30 that night and about 30 minutes later my pulse began to race and I couldn’t sleep. I finally fell asleep about 5 am. I stayed in bed all day yesterday and haven’t touched it since. I have really lost my appetite and energy. Could I have had an allergic reaction to it?
Thanks again!!!
Hello,
My name is Lynn and I’m 29, married with three kids. I suffer from generalized anxiety and panic attacks that happen at night (which then cause insomnia). My family almost all suffers from anxiety disorders, especially my mom and grandma. I was on BCP from the ages of 16-22 to treat acne. I didn’t realize until I went off the pills that they completely changed my personality and caused major mood swings and anger. I conceived my first son two weeks after going off BCP. I spotted through the majority of my first trimester. I never went on any progesterone supplements and the spotting stopped around 14 weeks. My first panic attack happened the night I brought him home, but it only happened once and then I was fine. I then conceived my boy/girl twins a year later. I went on a progesterone suppository with them during the first trimester just to be on the safe side to prevent a miscarriage. Once I brought them home I again experienced panic attacks, along with PPD and all day anxiety. The twins are now 5, and since they were born I have experienced months where I have all day anxiety and bad nightly panic attacks. I went on Zoloft when the twins were two in order to control my anxiety, which it did….but the weight gain and the fact I had no personality on it made me stop taking it. I have tried going back on the pill several times but my mood swings quickly come back. I am now experiencing high anxiety and panic attacks once again, it has been going on for about two months now. I notice I almost always have low levels of anxiety before my period, but I can usually manage it with diet and exercise….not this time though. The last two months I’ve noticed that I have had a lot of spotting about 12 days before my period starts (I always spot before my period, but usually it’s only for about 4-5 days, not 12), bad mood swings, and extremely sore breasts (like I’m pregnant). I honestly believe my anxiety is tied to my hormone levels and having low progesterone. I can almost feel my hormones dropping after I ovulate. I just don’t know how to fix this so I can get my anxiety and panic attacks under control. I don’t want to take anxiety meds again. Sorry this is so long, any advice you could give me would be wonderful. Thank you.
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Hello, Lynne – Sorry I did not answer your last post on my blog.
My web site crashed this week – and am waiting for my webmaster to hopefully get it back. I have been unable to reply to anyone’s comments.
You seriously need to see an endocrinologist or a naturopath. It appears you are experiencing a combination of severe nutrient depletion and hormone imbalance.
I will suggest you are suffering from postpartum depression. Cheryl Jazzar who is a postpartum wellness consultant will offer some good information that will help you get back on the right track.
Every pregnancy you go through depletes vital nutrients from your body. These have to be replaced or all of the symptoms you are experiencing will only worsen.
You are too young to be experiencing all of this.
Please contact Cheryl – or seek out a naturopath.
You do need some professional guidance to get back on track.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello, my name is Tammi. I was told by my gyn doctor about 2 years ago, that I was going through menapause. I am 46 years old and had not had a cycle for about two years then, I had one last year that put me in the bed for about 4 days. It was very heavy and I cramped worst than I ever cramped in my life.
After that my, doctor did an ablasion and I have not had a cycle or any cramping since. Last year, I went through a stage where I did nothing but cry and just felt overwhelmed and light headed all the time. After getting over that, which took several months, I recently (approx. 3wks ago), have developed a fear of driving. My legs and feet get so shakey and I often have to pull off the road and tell myself I can do this. When I wake up and have to go to work, the first thing I think about is having to drive, it makes me feel ill. On my way to work and on my way home, I may have to pull off the highway at least twice prior to reaching my designation. I feel light headed and sooo off balance most days. I have never been scared to drive and I just feel so not myself in the last couple of months. Please help me! I take a low dose xanas (0.5 mil) at night to help me sleep but it has done nothing for this fear of driving that I recently grabbed a hold of or this off balance feeling that I have. I take blood pressure pills but, my blood presure has been under control so I don’t think that is the cause. I would do anything to feel like myself again, a strong, hardworking woman! I so feel like I am going to just go crazy at any moment and I really believe it is a hormone issue because I also have really bad hot flashes that wake me out of my sleep every night more than once during the night. If you or anyone can provide me with some advice, I would be forever greatful!
Hi, Tammi – Sorry I did not answer your last post on my blog.
My web site crashed this week – and am waiting for my webmaster to hopefully get it back. I have been unable to reply to anyone’s comments.
You are experiencing a combination of nutrient depletion and hormone imbalance.
My suggestion is that you seek out of the care of an endocrinologist or a naturopath.
You do not need to be living this way.
Your symptoms will only get worse if you do not take the appropriate steps.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
My name is Kimberly. I am 43 years old and have a healthy 8 week old girl. I have 3 other children. My oldest is my daughter that is about to turn 24. I have 2 boys, 14 and 16. I had my right ovary removed a year before my oldest daughter was born and had always had irregular periods. I gained a LOT of weight with my pregnancy. I developed severe anxiety and panic attacks just after she was born. I was also hypoglycemic from gaining so much weight. I attributed my condition to low blood sugar and just tried to deal with it. I had pretty much straightened out just around the time I got pregnant again 8 years later. After the birth of my youngest son 2 years later the trouble really began again. I ended up drinking heavily from that point on just to mask the symptoms and go out in public. When I got pregnant this time I literally felt great. I obviously couldn’t drink and didn’t need to. My doctor put me on Keflex for a UTI and after a little research I discovered (AFTER taking a whole 30 pills) that it causes all kinds of forms of severe anxiety. He also prescribed progesterone cream for me. The stuff is a miracle I think. I am supposed to take 4 “clicks” a day but I’ve been so scared of taking things I just dab a little on once in awhile. Well, today I had a “meltdown.” I started on probiotics, b12, b100 complex and fish oil to combat the damage from the antibiotic. I was really proud of myself for taking them but a little nervous about it and I’m afraid the panic just took off from there. I had a really hot flash (which was all new to me) followed by a panic attack and a miserable day.
I just found your website and I’m wondering if I should be taking the 4 clicks!
Could this have been my problem my whole life?? I’ve always had low/good blood pressure and really good check ups from my doctor. Besides feeling absolutely nuts LOL, I’m perfectly healthy. I realize there is stress. I have a family depending on me. Thank God I work from home because at this point I can’t even open the door to the UPS man or go to the corner store. I believe in a great God and I know he has other plans for me than to suffer. God bless you. Thank you for creating this website!
Hello, Kimberly – thank you for your questions. Am so glad you found this site.
Yes, it appears that low progesterone may by the culprit.
That coupled with nutrient depletion. After all of those pregnancies and all of the stress you are under…you have depleted a lot of vital nutrients.
Every pregnancy we go through takes vital nutrients: vitamins, minerals, amino acids and enzymes from our body. That is how our beautiful healthy babies are born! If we do not replace those nutrients then are bodies succumb to more and more problems.
I know that nutritional therapy is a new concept for many of you – so let me share some information on its value..since the therapy is finally making its way into the medical mainstream. There is a doctor in Dayton OH who is successfully using Nutrition IV’s on a friend of mine. http://www.daytonent.com/iv.asp
This is why I recommend the Truehope EMPowerplus. These are micronized nutrients (easy for the body to digest) that are designed for bipolar disorder, hormone imbalance, depression and anxiety. Tens of thousands of people are using this product with great success. Many of the women posting here are also using the EMP.
As for the natural progesterone cream – yes, yes, yes… use this religiously. We are all exposed to so many xenoestrogens in our environment (estrogen mimickers) that is is crucial to offset this imbalance with natural progesterone.
This is a great article on estrogen dominance and the importance of progesterone.
http://www.highonhealth.org/is-estrogen-dominance-causing-your-acne/
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Kimberly – I forgot to mention that at 43 you are likely to be in perimenopause – another reason to supplement with the 4 Clicks progesterone…. and also get more nutritional support.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello
I’m 28 and have had quite severe episodes of anxiety over the last 7 years. I currently take Prozac to help. However I do believe some of my problems are exasperated by a possible hormone imbalance. I put on a lot of weight when I started my periods and have never been able to shift it. I also have problems with my blood sugar levels, I’ve had this for many years but finally got the courage to speak to my dr about it and he advised me to lose weight which I find so difficult. I have been charting when my symptoms occur and have found a massive rise in my anxiety the week before my period but then feel ok when it starts but it increases again when it has stopped. I also have another spike mid cycle ovulation time. The symptoms i experience are anxiety, low mood, loss of confidence, no energy, intrusive thoughts, panic, unable to think straight, shortness of breath, water retention, blood sugar dips, carpel tunnel, insomnia and restless legs. I also have had excess facial hair growth (its not too bad but I have to remove it) this may be unrelated. I have noted recently that my periods seem to be shorter and my cycle averages 23 days. I would be so grateful of some advice, my friend recommended vitex but am scared I could make things worse. Any advise appreciated
Hello, Waltzing… I am sure you want to get back to ‘waltzing’ through life instead of stumbling through hormone imbalance.
I did some research on Vitex – and I also learned a lot – but like many other products it does have some side effects.
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/herbsupplementguide/a/Vitex.htm
Your anxiety may be due to hormone imbalance…. and/or nutrient depletion.
If you have read through my replies to the posts here – you will know that I am a big supporter of nutritional therapy.
A depletion of the mineral Zinc will also cause the hormonal anxiety you are experiencing.
I suggest you go to your health food store and look for a whole food vitamin and mineral supplement that contains zinc. Synthetic vitamins are not absorbed by the body – they are stored – and therefore you are not getting the full benefit of the supplement.
Because you are experiencing a combination of hormonal anxiety and excess facial hair – I think you should have your hormone levels tested. Excess testosterone will cause facial hair growth. Excess estrogen may cause the anxiety you are experiencing and makes it much harder for women to lose weight.
I am glad you do not want to go the Prozac route… therefore I suggest you see and endocrinologist who is more versed in hormones and menopause.
A general practitioner is not educated about hormones and therefore is more likely to prescribe drugs.
You definitely have hormone-related issues going on here – and all of the symptoms you have described point to that.
If you do not want to see an endo – I would then suggest a naturopath. They have a better understanding of whole body health and how hormones and diet will affect your mind, mood and hormone cycle.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello I’ve been on the patch for around 5 years and have decided to stop using it for personal reasons. Now for the last few days I have felt such a combination of feelings that it is becoming overwhelming. Could it be that my body got used to the birth control? Is there a way to ease the weaning off the patch?
Thank you for your time,
Melissa
Hello, Melissa – you are absolutely correct – your body adjusted itself to the patch and the synthetic hormones for 5 years. What you are experiencing now is synthetic hormone withdrawal. You can ease off the patch by increasing your nutritional supplementation – with whole food vitamins not synthetic. Synthetic vitamins are stored in the body and not absorbed at the cellular level. You will also want to look into getting zinc – a deficiency i this mineral will heighten feelings of anxiety and depression.
I believe that the patch contains synthetic estrogen so you may want to look into a natural progesterone cream – or the Progessence Plus Serum – natural progesterone infused with essential oils that help the progesterone get into your cells. You should also eliminate as much plastic in your household as possible. Plastics contain estrogen mimickers that will also cause hormone imbalance and exacerbate the feelings you are experiencing now. Estrogen mimickers are also found in household cleaning solvents, makeup, meats and fruits and vegetables that have been wrapped in plastic.
Adding the nutrition (since synthetic hormone deplete vital nutrients) and balancing your hormones with the natural progesterone will be helpful in easing the withdrawal symptoms you are experiencing.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello,
Several months ago, Oct. 2012 to be exact, I decided to stop taking BC because I was having terrible migraines right about the time my period was going to start. Other than that, I never experienced any other symptoms being on BC. I was on a generic form of Ortho Tri Cyclen. A month later after stopping the pill, Nov. 2012, right about the time my period was going to start, I would feel lightheaded, dizzy, and drunk (sorry couldn’t find another way of putting it). It only happened for a couple of days and then it went away and I was back to my normal self. The second month (December) was the worst. On 12/21/12 four days after starting my period, I experienced my first panic attack. Throughout my life I have been somewhat nervous but never to the point that I would experience depression or anxiety or attacks. I did not know what it was and I rushed home from work, relaxed and it went away however the following days after, I experienced lightheadness, dizziness, and anxiety. Then again on 12/27/12 I experienced another panic attack and rushed myself to the ER. They prescribed Xanax (.25-.5 mg) which I have been taking almost every day since I’m experiencing anxiety almost every day. My MD wants to put me on Lexapro but I have a huge feeling that my anxiety has to do with a hormonal imbalance and I don’t want to be on any antidepressants. After doing some research, I began to take Vitamin B Complex and Fish Oil with Omega 3. Here is my questions, will the symptoms (anxiety, depression, lightheadness and dizziness) eventually go away? I plan to see a Dr. regarding my hormonal imbalance but I can’t see him until my 21st day of my period. Also, I have heard a lot of great things regarding Biofeedback for anxiety. Would that work for someone that has a hormonal imbalance?
Hello, Stephanie – yes you are spot on – in knowing your anxiety is the result of synthetic hormone withdrawal. Your body adjusted to the synthetic hormones and now it is trying to re-establish its own production of estrogen and progesterone. However, due to the amounts of estrogen in the piil and our environment, the ratio between estrogen and progesterone are probably unbalanced.
Prescription antidepressants are not going to do anything by mask your symptoms.
Hormone imbalance – in the form of anxiety, depression, lightheadness and dizziness will not go away if left untreated (unhealed) they will only worsen with age.
Add to that the nutrient depletion that comes with aging – and this all leads to becoming endocrinally whacked by the team we transition to menopause. This is why women struggle so much at this time of their lives.
If you start supplementing with good nutrition (whole food – not synthetics) and you balance your hormones they symptoms will become healed. if not they will lead to even more problems.
Read this article by the late Dr. John Lee who was a pioneer in natural progesterone therapy for hormone imbalance due to estrogen imbalance. http://www.johnleemd.com/store/estrogen_dom.html
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Good evening. Hope you are well. I had a baby 8 weeks ago. Around 3 weeks after birth, I had 2 bad nights of insomnia and this triggered anxiety and since then I have been having trouble sleeping, concentrating, anxiety, feeling down and low and plus I have night sweats. I have been doing my research online as my doctor an health visitor seen to think anti depressants is the way to go and I have refused to go down that route. My research brought me to the article and I’m thinking that I might have this as my symptoms show I could be low on progesterone. Please tell me how you are feeling now after taking the hormones and if I should.
Kind regards,
Maggie
Hello, Maggie – I hope you that you read the response to the comment I just posted to Natasha. You and she are experiencing the same exact symptoms of nutrient depletion and hormone imbalance.
You may very well be low on progesterone too.
Please contact me at leslie@holyhormones.com and I will be glad to help you order the Progessence Plus Serum.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello – Maggie – it just dawned on me that you would have to scroll through hundreds of comments to find what I posted to Natasha…so am re-posting my response for you.
You are probably experiencing postpartum depression combined with hormone imbalance – which will also occur when you are nutritionally depleted.
You gave whatever nutritional reserves to your baby during your pregnancy – vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes etc. No, babies do not come from a stork (sorry had to make a joke here – but will get to the point..) babies come from our bodies – and that means the formation of a healthy baby depends on our nutritional reserves. Like it or not, Mother Nature puts that baby first (otherwise we would be bringing a lot more unhealthy babies into the world). What does that mean to you? If you do not have enough nutritional reserves for your baby AND you…. you will be the one to suffer.
I would seriously look into a strong nutritional supplementation program (whole food vitamins & minerals etc. and not synthetics) BTW – this is for all women getting pregnant or considering it – or who are suffering from PPD – prenatal vitamins that the doctors give you will have a minimal effect on your nutritional status because they are synthetic. Synthetic vitamins are not absorbed at a cellular level – where you need the nutrition – they are stored…and they do not break down in the body. In other words – they have very little value…although the concept is good.
If that multivitamin is synthetic – ditch it. Also remember that your nutritional status has changed now that you have had a baby – especially if you breastfed your baby (more nutrient depletion). If you are taking the same amount of vitamins post pregnancy that you did before you go pregnant you are not getting what you need to replace the nutrients lost during the pregnancy.
This alone should really make a big difference in your life.
If not, you may also consider natural progesterone to balance your hormones.
I invite you to contact Cheryl Jazzar Postpartum Wellness Consultant. She will have a lot of good information for you as well.
Stay in touch. If you follow this advise you will be back to enjoying your motherhood – and your womanhood.
Hi, for all of my life i have been a very laid back person. The idea of anxiety was alien to me, i had never been an angry person. I tried birth control for about a year when i was 17 but felt it made me have major mood swings so never took it again and have just simply used the withdraw method ever since. I do not like the idea of changing my body’s natural functions. When i fell pregnant when i was 24 i started to slip into a depression. Then when my baby was born i felt just horrible, i had anxiety issues, depression, fatigue, low blood pressure, light headedness, burning feet, hot flashes etc. My daughter is now 2 and i am still suffering from most of these symptoms. I used to be so happy and healthy and now i feel as though having my daughter has changed my body and hormones and i feel a little like a crazy woman sometimes. My mother developed thyroid disease in her early 30’s and my mother and grandmother both went into early menopause at 32 and 39. I am not sure if its me just expecting the same thing to happen to me but i just don’t feel right! I am also suffering from hormonal acne at 27. The doc has checked my thyroid and says its fine. I have recently lost weight and i exercise reguarly and eat super healthy and clean. I also take a multivitamin daily.
Hello, Natasha – you are probably experiencing postpartum depression combined with hormone imbalance – which will also occur when you are nutritionally depleted.
You gave whatever nutritional reserves to your baby during your pregnancy – vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes etc. No, babies do not come from a stork (sorry had to make a joke here – but will get to the point..) babies come from our bodies – and that means the formation of a healthy baby depends on our nutritional reserves. Like it or not, Mother Nature puts that baby first (otherwise we would be bringing a lot more unhealthy babies into the world). What does that mean to you? If you do not have enough nutritional reserves for your baby AND you…. you will be the one to suffer.
I would seriously look into a strong nutritional supplementation program (whole food vitamins & minerals etc. and not synthetics) BTW – this is for all women getting pregnant or considering it – or who are suffering from PPD – prenatal vitamins that the doctors give you will have a minimal effect on your nutritional status because they are synthetic. Synthetic vitamins are not absorbed at a cellular level – where you need the nutrition – they are stored…and they do not break down in the body. In other words – they have very little value…although the concept is good.
If that multivitamin is synthetic – ditch it. Also remember that your nutritional status has changed now that you have had a baby – especially if you breastfed your baby (more nutrient depletion). If you are taking the same amount of vitamins post pregnancy that you did before you go pregnant you are not getting what you need to replace the nutrients lost during the pregnancy.
This alone should really make a big difference in your life.
If not, you may also consider natural progesterone to balance your hormones.
I invite you to contact Cheryl Jazzar Postpartum Wellness Consultant. She will have a lot of good information for you as well.
Stay in touch. If you follow this advise you will be back to enjoying your motherhood – and your womanhood.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi, it’s Sheri again – I just realized I probably should have mentioned that I’m 43, and beginning to have a few peri menopausal symptoms – night sweats, weight gain, bloating, mood swings, etc. Hormones are just so much fun!
Sheri – Welcome to perimenopause! Your body is changing as are your hormones… your naturopath may recommend a different dose not that you are in this stage. Yes – hormones are fun…. but only when they are in balance. I would definitely suggest the Progessence Plus Serum. When our hormones are whacked that is when the fun stops! Hormone health is crucial to our overall health and well being.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am so so happy to have found this! maybe I’m not crazy! Over a year ago I started having strange”attacks” just before my period – it would start with a feeling of vertigo, then nausea, and a need to get to the bathroom fast, then I would spend 4 – 5 hours curled on my bed enduring waves of nausea, dizziness, a rapid, pounding heart, and chills. The first two times this happened I went to the er, only to be told it was the flu and be sent home. I went to my doctor, who prescribed Ativan and antidepressants, which I did not take. He refused to check my hormone levels, even after this happened 7 months in a row, always the day before my period. I went to my naturopath, who thought it may be an adrenal problem, and gave me some herbs and vitamins to support the adrenal glands. That seemed to help, and I had been symptom free for over a year, until last might, when it happened again, and my period started today. Coincidence? I think not. Going back on the natuopath’s supplements. Do you have any other advice? Thank you so much!
Hello, Sheri – Yes, go back on the naturopath’s supplements. This is a lifestyle now that most of us must adapt to since it is harder and harder to get nutritional supplementation from our foods. Eliminate plastics BPA from your environment and consider taking Progessence Plus Serum to balance the estrogen/progesterone ratio.
Not sure what else to suggest – since I do not know what your naturopath recommended.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am 22 years old and suffering from what I believe to be a hormonal imbalance. For the past two years, my anxiety levels have been steadily increasing. It got so intense that this last fall I was having full blown panic attacks. What was baffling to me is that I was panicking over things that never used to bother me to that extent. Suddenly I couldn’t even complete a simple homework assignment because my mind was racing and I was panicking for no reason (at least that’s what it seemed like).
Since then I’ve had other symptoms. My mood is constantly all over the place. My face breaks out with acne. I’ve had multiple cold sores over the past few months (I get cold sores, but not this frequently!). I’ve also had yeast infections, heightened allergies, and very sore breasts (even weeks before my period starts). My period used to come every 28 days and now it varies. It used to last 6 full days and taper off on the last day or two. Now it starts tapering off by the third day. Also, I have suddenly developed asthmatic symptoms. It doesn’t happen every night, but during the middle of my cycle, I will start having asthma “attacks” where my chest is tight and I have difficulty breathing. It’s upsetting to me, because three months ago I had no trace of asthma and even ran a 5K with no breathing difficulties. I used to have more energy but now it feels like everything I do is a chore.
I don’t understand it, because prior to all this I was a very healthy person. Sure, I had my mood swings and other PMS symptoms. But never like this. I don’t drink alcohol or caffeine, have cut down my intake of sugar significantly, and my diet consists mostly of fruits, vegetables, some starches, and a little meat here and there (very little!).
I’m hoping there is a solution out there somewhere!
Hello, McKenna – so glad you posted here. It does appear you are experiencing hormone imbalance. This could be due to your environment – too many plastics – containing BPA – (estrogen mimickers), household solvents, hormones in your meats and vegetables and fruits – which are all wrapped in plastic these days.
Make up also contains estrogen mimickers. Although you did not mention the type of birth control you are currently on – or have been on – and even your mother’s birth control use… all of the estrogen’s build up in women’s bodies and wreak havoc on our hormones.
You should be seeking care from a naturopath or an endocrinologist who understands the role of hormones.
I also think you may be nutritionally depleted… it is very difficult for anyone to receive the nutrients we need from our foods – even if our diet consists of fruits, and vegetables etc. Organic foods have much more value – but even they do not contain the nutrients they once did because of soil depletion and the toxins in our air.
I found this article yesterday on acne and hormone imbalance. It contains a lot of good information: Suffering From Hormonal Acne? Here’s What You Can Do About It…
I would suggest you look into the Progessence Plus Serum on my site – natural progesterone infused with essential oils that are absorbed at the cellular level – not stored in body fat like many progesterone creams.
Also you need to build up your immune system – your allergies and yeast infections indicate you are nutritionally depleted and that your body is more acidic than alkaline. This condition will only worsen if not remedied immediately. I suggest you research using organic apple cider vinegar. I have taken an 1/8 of a cup in a 8 oz glass of water and it does a great job in balancing the bodies PH.
You also need some good supplements that can be absorbed by the body. The Truehope EMPowerplus has been micronized so that it can be digested – even if the digestive system is not functioning properly so that the vitamins, minerals and amino acids are absorbed and not stored.
Once you start balancing your hormones and nutrating your body – you will see a lot of these symptoms disappear.
Here is another great article on how hormones affect asthma: The impact of female hormones on asthma.
You are too young to be experiencing all of these symptoms – although this is, unfortunately, becoming the norm for women your age.
You can easily reverse and repair this with the suggestions above.
Keep posting and let me know if I can help you further.
Will be glad to get you more information on both products…. or if you choose – educate yourself and get to your health food store.
Make sure you get whole food vitamins – including zinc (a deficiency causes PMS) instead of synthetic vitamins which are stored in the body not absorbed. And eliminate as many plastics as possible from you environment – especially your foods. No drinking out of plastic water bottles – and no microwaving in plastics. In fact, ditch the microwave all together… this changes the DNA in foods and depletes whatever nutrients are in them.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
The one thing was I was low in progesterone and that my thyroid antibodies were elevated and my DHEAs were very low….. trying to do some research on those things to see what they exactly mean.
Excellent Ashley – do the research and share with the rest of us. Research is the best way to understand one’s health issues.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi again,
Finally made it into the dr and she does say that it sounds like I have pms. I got a full blood work up done and everything seems to be normal (except albinum levels are boarderline high which might just be dehydration. I will get retested for that in a couple weeks).
She checked thyroid function also and it’s on the lower side of average (1.34 out of 0.45 – 5.10)
Not sure what else I should get checked or if you know any more about my test results, which ones relate to hormone levels.
She wants me to start taking a medication called Remeron. It’s for “severe depressive disorders”, insomnia, can help with anxiety and is known to make you gain weight (weight gain would be a blessing for me, I am 5’7 and 93 lbs). Any one tried it or heard anything about it? I have a phobia of medication so it would be very difficult for me but it sounds like it might be exactly what I need.
Thanks so much for all your help, I really appreciate that you respond so quickly to everyone’s comments! You’re awesome!
Jen – you can medicate – to mask the symptoms or you can nutrate to heal.
The choice is yours.
Or you can medicate for a short term while you can more nutrients into your system.
If you have PMS – your hormone levels are dropping way to low.
Please read through this posts.
I have written and explained about the importance of natural progesterone and adding whole food nutritional supplements.
The answers are not so complicated.
But the choices are yours.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Update…finally got my test results back just waiting for a treatment plan. Had migraines and anxiety since the age of 13(when I started my period) I am now 29. Just had my first baby May 5, 2012. Had to stop my amitriptlyn I took for my migraines cold turkey. Got horrible migraines pregnant was put on bp meds then was taken off after delivery since my bp plummeted. Went back on my old meds. Started having anxiety and migraines. Had my 6wks check up was put on sprintec(used to take tri sprintec prior) started getting stroke like symptoms for a few months. Ct scans/blood ok. Stopped taking the bp pills it stopped. Found this site then found a natural hormone therapy place near me. Also changed my family dr they tested me and found out I am allergic to gluten. Just got my results from my hormone/thyroid test. Have an apt next fri for s plan of action. If I post my numbers for the results could you maybe give me a brief interpretation since these are hard to read.l.l.
Ashley – am so sorry – not qualified to read and interpret your results.
See an endocrinologist or a naturopath for that.
Nutrate yourself with whole food vitamins – and get your hormones balanced.
You will be amazed at the difference in your life.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi Leslie, thanks so much for the quick response! I’ve come off Effexor once before and experienced similar heightened anxiety (for reference I’ve been at a very low dose for 2 months and then completely off for 1 month). That being said, I am concerned that the medication has just been masking a hormonal imbalance (do anti-anxiety meds reduce cortisol levels??). For more clarity – in the past I’ve been diagnosed with poly-cystic ovaries as well as higher than average testosterone levels AND suffered three miscarriages before I had my son. I maintained the final pregnancy by taking progesterone suppositories, drastically changing my diet (no gluten) and lots of yoga :). My concern is that I’m not treating the underlying condition of hormonal imbalance – for example why is my anxiety worse (and it’s physical vs “head”) when ovulating and pre-menstrual vs other times of the month? THanks for your help!
Dana – poly cystic ovaries -estrogen dominance… miscarriages – low progesterone. And you took progesterone suppositories to maintain your pregnancy.
The underlying problem may be estrogen dominance and too little progesterone. It sounds like the ratios between estrogen and progesterone are way off.
You anxiety is worse right before ovulation and during the paramenstrum is because that is when the hormone levels drop.
You have named the issue yourself – low levels of progesterone.
You need to be supplementing with a natural progesterone (and increase your nutritional supplementation now for another pregnancy.
Please look into the Progessence Plus Serum
Let me know if I can help.
The answer is in your question.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi all – I had a question about hormone imbalance before ovulation. I have just recently come off Effexor XR in hopes of getting pregnant again. I’ve noticed over my last 2 cycles in the week leading up to ovulation my body is very anxious – especially in the morning and wakes me up through the night. I just ovulated yesterday and today I’m feeling much better. I’m concerned about what could be causing this? My assumption is that it has something to do with cortisol now that I’m not taking the anti-anxiety medication but not sure the connection to ovulation? Also, with my past pregnancy I took progesterone suppositories from Day 21 to 28 which seemed to calm me down but this past month when I took them it didn’t help much at all… I was a nervous wreck pretty much until I got my period (actually I had a chemical pregnancy – not sure if that has anything to do with it?). Any explanation or suggestions would be helpful as I’m very worried about how this will effect my ability to get pregnant again (and my health in general). Thank you!
Hi, Dana – Hormone imbalance does not occur just at one phase of the cycle… I think you are still experiencing the after effects of the Effexor XR. How recently did you come off this drug?
WebMD – has this say to say about the anti-depressant.
Certainly your hormones come into play as they interact with this drug. And vice-versa.
I would focus on getting some good nutritional support to help you body through this transition – as well as to prepare yourself for pregnancy.
If you experienced symptoms of depression before you got pregnant – and your body is not supplemented with a strong reserve of nutrients – most will be going to the baby – you can bet your booty you will be falling down the rabbit hole post-pregnancy.
Start thinking healing instead of medicating – and you will get yourself on the right track.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi, for the past year and half I have felt like Im going mad! It first started when I had implant taken out after 3 years. I put on weight my stomach constantly bloated and with numerous trips to dr they blamed it on IBS. no matter how hard I try I couldnt lose lose the weight and i go gym 4x a week. I keep crying for no reason, stopped socialising with friends and often think I want to drive my car off the road. I use to be happy, bubbly confident girl. I decided to take matters in my own hands and see health practioner and she told me I am oestrogen dominant, go organic, paranben free etc. she recommended that I do estrogen detox which will get help get rid of my lower body fat. Have you heard of this?
Hello, Stacey – Yes, I have heard of this…and your practitioner is correct…. you are suffering from estrogen dominance… or in other words the hormone blues. You do need to be paraben free, eat organic – get rid of household solvents and plastics in your home. All of these – including make up contain estrogen mimickers that upset the ratio between estrogen and progesterone. Do not microwave in plastic and do not drink out of plastic water bottles.
Synthetic estrogens are stored in the body – which is the reason why so many women find it difficult to lose weight. The estrogen is stored in the fatty tissue in the abdomen and thighs.
I addition to your detox – and I would like to know more about the kind of detox your practitioner is recommending – I would also suggest the Progessence Plus Serum on my site. This is natural progesterone infused with essential oils that get absorbed on the cellular level and not stored in the body.
As you can see by reading through the comments many women are experiencing the anxiety, weight gain and other issues you are talking about.
BTW – IBS is also hormone imbalance related.
I would be glad to help you order the PPS if you are interested. Or go to your health food store and pick up natural progesterone cream and see if that makes a difference. The cream will only work for awhile since eventually it gets stored to in the body fat. But at least you will know you are on the right track.
When your body is nutrated – and your hormones balanced – you will be able to lose the weight and easily go back to being the happy, bubbly, confident girl that you were.
No one has to live in hormone hell – and bravo for taking your health into your own hands and seeking out the answers that make sense.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I wanted to say that I have read some of these comments and have felt so much in the same boat as everyone else. I too, used to be on bcp mainly to keep from getting pregnant,but my husband and I would like to have another child although I am about to turn 38. I have been off bcp for about 10 months and still not pregnant ( keepin mind that I got pregnant with my first child at age 33 and exactly one month of coming off the pill I was on for 2 years). Yes… I am sure it is different this time…. Older and have been on the pill longer. However, when I came off the pill it didn’t happen over night….the anxiety going away that is. It took time, patience , taking multivitamins and just searching websites to find things to help me overcome the anxiety issues. Yes, I too was placed on lexapro which threw my blood press out of control. They wanted to put me on Paxil…. I said no way! The lexapro taken one time was on my body for 6 days. So yes, it stays in your body even after you stop it. I couldn’t sleep. I took the stand to say no to antidepressants. I was not depressed….I had a hormonal imbalance due to the bcp. Once the bcp was out of my system I felt better. Today, I still have a few issues with anxiety especially around time of period but I can deal with it for three to four days of the month. The thing that scares me at the moment is the fact that I could indeed be going through premenopause. I haven’t gotten pregnant and periods are becoming lighter as the months go by. We’ll see and I will definitely ask dr to do a check on hormones in three months.
Lu – why don’t you try getting some natural progesterone cream at your health food store and see if this helps? See you have read through many of the comments you know that I recommend the Progessence Plus Serum for many reasons.
You may indeed be in perimenopause which can last up to 15 years. A boost of progesterone may help stimulate ovulation – especially since you were on BCP’s for so long – and are probably estrogen dominant. Also progesterone is necessary to maintain a healthy pregnancy and may prevent miscarriage.
Also keep up on the multivitamins. The more nutritionally healthy and the more hormone balanced the greater chance of getting pregnant.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi Leslie,
Thanks for the response. I am very worried of how it will be for menopause, if this is the way I am feeling now. My mother went through menopause very early in her 40’s, so I am thinking I will probably be early also.
I was on birth control for probably 10 years. I was having my period for two weeks on two weeks off, I kept telling my gyno it is the birth control and he would just say no you are not taking it correctly or he would try to put me on a diffrent kind. Finally I just decided on my own to get off and it has been about a 1yr 1/2 to 2years I am off of them. My periods are regular now, still are very heavy but at least I am not having it for two weeks anymore. I have always had PMS mood swings, ect., but as I am getting older I notice the worse they are getting. I do think I have some kind of hormone imbalance. My hair use to be super thick and now it is as thin as can be. I have started taking Biotin and it is really helping with my hair growing back. I get acne now and my skin is just changing and I use to never have problems with my skin.
Thank you, I will read and look into the Progessence Plus Serum also.
Hello,
I happend to stummble across this site trying to find answers and it is so comforting to know that I am not alone with this struggle. I am 32 and have a 15 year old son. I have always been pretty moody but it seems the older I get, the worse my PMS is getting. I am now having horrible anxiety attacks, extreme mood swings, no patience with my family, I get so angry at everything, bloating, weight gain, breats tenderness, hungry all the time, and instead of all this starting a week before my period like it mormally dose, it seems to be almost two weeks before now. So I have two happy normal weeks (sometimes not always) and two PMS crazy weeks. It is really effecting my family life and I warn them all when I feel it all starting but then I just feel so horrible for the way I treat them. I just went and ordered a bottle from true hope and I can not wait to try it and hopefully have positive results!
Hello Cassandra – Well you did stumble into the right place. Unfortunately, you are not alone…. Almost 500 women have posted here in the last 6 months. I would say this is an epidemic. Please read through the comments and my replies carefully.
You are experiencing estrogen dominance – (low progesterone to estrogen ratio) as well as nutrient depletion.
Nobody is getting the nutrients we need from the foods we are eating…
Life, pregnancy, hormone changes – all zap our nutritional reserves.
Do these two things and you will experience a remarkable change in your life.
Am so glad you ordered the Truehope EMPowerplus.
When you are ready – I will suggest your order the Progessence Plus Serum (natural progesterone infused with essential oils).
Has made a huge difference in my life. Even when I think I should get anxious about things going on in my life…. I do not get anxious about them.
Am more rational and discerning. Anyone who gets in my way – gets a ‘whatev’ and I move on.
Life is too short not to enjoy it.
And we do not have to feel hormonally horrible.
We need to be hormonally happy.
Word to the wise to all of you… if you do not take care of this issue now…it will only get worse.
Not to be a Debby Downer or anything… but really? Do not nutrate now – how do you think you will feel in 5 years? Do not balance your hormones now and close the gap between estrogen and progesterone ratios – and how do you think menopause is going to be?
Just sayin’.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I HAVE RECOVERED! And I want to share my story because I went searching for answers all over the internet when these problems were happening to me, and not many people had comments about being better. I’m sure many of them just moved on with their lives as I almost did. But I came back to these forums to post so that whoever is hurting might know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Keep hope alive. I did not have much hope at that time, but now I am absolutely fine 🙂
It all began when I went on birth control as suggested by my gyno because my periods were not happening every month like clockwork and this concerned her. But after awhile, I started getting bad headaches, so I quit them cold turkey after 3 months. Well, I was fine for awhile until a few weeks passed. Then my world changed forever.
One day I randomly started feeling extreme anxiety, a problem I have never experienced in my life. I could not eat or sleep no matter how long it had been since I had eaten and no matter how tired I knew I was. My body went haywire and it scared me to death. I was terrified, questioned my faith and my salvation, and did not want to be alone in case I died (irrational thoughts).
I went to a psychologist, tried herbs, everything… My regular doctor and gyno wanted me to either get on a drug for anxiety/depression, or get back on birth control. But my mom reasoned that I was fine before birth control and learned from researching online that birth control was probably the cause of these problems in the first place. We decided to stay away from more drugs and wait it out.
My episode of terror lasted a week the first time and I lost 13 pounds. I did not want to do anything, even get in the shower or change. I felt frozen in place, paralyzed by fear, but was still miserable sitting still. I seriously felt like I was going crazy. My heart seemed heavy and sometimes a muscle in my neck hurt too. Any little symptom scared me because I was in an irrational state. I thought I might just drop dead or pass out. Well, instead I dropped out of my last semester of college and moved home.
I thought maybe I was out of the woods when my week-long episode ended, but exactly a month after the first week-long episode, I had another one, this time at home. I was also having some sort of light bleeding every 2 weeks, which was abnormal for me. The feelings of anxiety and fear returned and I went another week without eating or sleeping much at all. Now I really began to worry that I was ruined for life. The world looked so scary and I did not want to live because I was scared of what I would have to deal with – I felt incapable of handling it. I did not want to die either because I was scared of that too. I hated birth control and was mad that I could not talk myself out of these crazy/racing thoughts going on in my mind. I prayed and prayed and felt sort of abandoned to be honest. Why couldn’t I feel like my old self? Would this condition last for years? And why couldn’t I handle this better?
I was really tempted to go on Paxil or birth control that time, but decided I would wait it out one more time. It felt like hell during these episodes but as long as I ate when I could, laid down at night, and just kept breathing in and out nothing serious was really happening even though I believed it was. I did dry heave a couple times but that was from panicky thoughts and was the least of my worries. Anyway, I was still having weird bleeding every couple of weeks and my acne was really bad, so I knew it was indeed hormone related and most likely the birth control that started all this.
SUMMARY: I quit birth control July 16, 2012 and had the 2 week-long episodes of extreme anxiety/depression. However after that I only had a couple more episodes! This time 3 days long and not as severe. November 10, 2012 was the last time I felt that abnormal/irrational anxiety feeling. Today it is January 7, 2013 and I feel completely fine. The weird, light bleeding is no longer 2 weeks apart. Instead I have relatively normal periods like I used to be before all this happened that are a month or more apart.
I feel like the same person I was before experiencing this except I have some questions about my faith. It humbled me for sure. But I am searching for answers, and I know God is faithful. This terrible ordeal will only make me stronger in the future. I believe it is getting better and better with time and that all this was caused by synthetic hormones which caused an imbalance in my body. This seriously altered the messages my brain was receiving. Hormones are more important than I knew before.
I suggest not going on drugs unless you have to and to wait it out. Doctors can help, sure, but also be your own advocate. Search online and consult the ones who care about you the most. If you do not have a history of anything like this, it is probably not really your mind but your body that is sick. But I am not a health professional. Just don’t be too hard on yourself like I was. You are not the only one who has gone through this. Surround yourself with patient people who love you during your anxiety or other symptomatic episodes and if you don’t have those people, pray to God and just breathe. Time will go a long way to heal you because it did for me. Hang in there and eat when you can, sleep when you can. Don’t worry about the rest.
I am so sorry if any of you are going through this. I hope it ends soon. But if you are, know that it is most likely temporary. Don’t try to fight it and question everything about your universe – just keep breathing. A better day is ahead.
Thank you for sharing your story Christine. You have outlined the dangers of using synthetic hormone suppressants. Let me just say that when these hormone contraceptives were introduced to the market – it was considered by many as the ‘largest uncontrolled medical experiment on women.’ Women in Puerto Rico who were used as the original trial participants refused to take the BCP’s because of the side effects. (Remember the first pills came out with higher doses of estrogen and progesterone.)
Now, generations later – with estrogen building up in our bodies and being passed from generation to generation and the incredible exposure we have to estrogen mimickers in our environment – especially through plastics – and in combination with getting less and less nutrients in our diets (that is also being passed down generationally), women are now experiencing severe side effects from synthetic hormones.
We all need to be aware of this – and start demanding that our partners take some accountability for preventing pregnancy. The risk to our health has become to great.
Glad you are in synthetic hormone recovery Christine – I do hope everyone here heeds your wise words.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am 30 years old. I have been going through this since my periods started at 14 1’2. My mother took me to the doctor when I was 12, because I was not getting my period. She thought something was wrong with me. I was the last of all my friends to get my period. The doctors assured her I would get my period when my body was ready, and I was healthy and fine. Very soon after my periods I become severely depressed and suicidal. My parents put me into therapy. I was put on anti depressants, as a 14 year old child, whom just got her period. At 15, I started getting horrible panic attacks. They lasted into my young 20s, where I finally learned to manage them, and control them. At 16, they diagnosed me as bipolar. My teen years were mostly horrible. Panic attacks, Rage attacks, Depression, general anxiety, horrible painful periods, heavy periods, mood swings. By 20 years old, it was coming harder for me to control my weight and the weird food cravings I would have. My weight would go all over the place. Before I knew it, I was a girl that weighed 125-130, to 160lbs. I would lose some weight and gain it back. I feel like a very crazy person sometimes. I cry at the drop of a hat, over absolutely nothing. I am the mother of a 3 year old now, and trying to be a mom and be like this is very hard some days. While I was pregnant, it was the best time ever in my life. I finally knew what “normal” was. I didn’t do all those typical things pregnant women usually do. Like cry, or have mood swings, or have food cravings. I was happy, and calm. Something balanced me out. One morning I woke up, around the time my daughter was about 5 months old. I knew immediately I had to returned to my old self. I wanted to jump out the window, that was my mornings very first thought. They tried pinning it on post partum depression. I am not saying women do not suffer from that. I believe they do. However, I do not think that is my case. I still feel the exact same way as I do that day. How I felt before my daughter, how I felt 15 years ago. The more research and reading I do, I don’t think I am bipolar at all. I don’t think they ever bothered to really look at see what my medical issues could have been. They just smacked me with a label and handed me a bunch of pills over the years which usually just made things worse.
Hello, Amanda – I am so sorry you have struggled all of your life with hormone imbalance.
Can you tell me if your mother and grandmother uses synthetic hormone birth control?
The reason that you felt so great during pregnancy is because of your ‘hormone high.’ Progesterone is the dominant hormone in maintaining a pregnancy and when the ratio to estrogen to progesterone is off, and hormones return to ‘normal’ levels post-pregnancy the symptoms you struggled with before come back – and sometimes even worse. Check into the Progessence Plus on my site.
What women do not understand is that we are normally ‘bipolar’ because of the two distinct phases of your hormone cycle – pre-ovulatory and post-ovulatory. Yet, we are diagnosed, labeled and medicated when we should be having our hormone ratios analyzed.
Now add a pregnancy to your imbalance – and you have nutrient depletion on top of everything else.
And yes, you probably suffered from postpartum depression which is a combination of hormone imbalance and nutrient depletion – after giving all of your reserves of nutrients to your pregnancy. How do you think our babies are formed? Vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes – and where do they come from? Our bodies? And what happens when they are not replaced? The endocrine system goes awry – we become depressed, anxious, moody, irritable, suicidal…
You really should be consulting with Postpartum Wellness Consultant, Cheryl Jazzar – or with the folks at Truehope.
You do not have to be struggling like.
Never take ill health – or depression as the norm. It is not.
It is just that we get used to it and see so many other’s suffering that we accept it.
Never, never, do that.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello I am finding this forum so helpful, THANK YOU! My question is: I am on a low dose of beta blockers (Metoprolol) for SVT. Can I take these supplements safely? I truly believe my anxiety started 12 years ago when i lost my mother. That is the same time my heart arrhythmia got out of control (i have always had palpitations but the past 12 years have quickly gotten worse) Also there was a great change in me after i had my son. I think I am missing the nutrients my body needs but i need to know what i can take safely with my meds. I truly believe my heart will improve once i get everything else figured out. I used to be the girl who never had cramps, no mood swings, nothing! Now, watch out! I am mean, headaches, body aches and need help. Thanks for your response and caring heart!!
Hello, Beth – I did some quick research and found this article:
Heart Rhythm Disorders: Supraventricular Tachycardia Treatment
I would think that hormone balancing (how old are you?) and nutrient supplementation is crucial to help with your overall health and to balance the emotional stress in your life.
I cannot answer the question whether the Truehope EMPowerplus can be taken with meds… but I would call them if I were you. There toll free number is 1-888-878-3467.
My thinking is that since your are a ‘mommy’ you have depleted vital nutrients in your body that need to be replaced. What most women do not realize is that hormone production begins in the brain. When the brain does not receive the vital nutrients it receives – other emotional/pathological symptoms occur. The Truehope product will balance your endocrine (hormone) system and should therefor affect your heart rate. Call Truehope – you may get some answers that will be very helpful and guide you on your quest to becoming the woman you want to be. All of your other symptoms cramps, mood swings, headaches and body aches also seem like hormone imbalance.
The Progessence Plus Serum – natural progesterone – also on my site may be very helpful indeed in releasing anxiety. I am using it myself – and have felt a decrease in my anxiety. And I am on the EMPowerplus. I am a big believer in nutrating and optimizing brain health.
I hope this helps.
Keep posting,
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello BEth – read through this article and you will understand that link between diet, depression and cardiovascular health: Can Diet Beat Depression?
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I am 24 years old and I have been on birth control since I was 16 years old. I was getting the depo shot up until I was 20 years old. Then got prego with my now 2 year old daughter and after that got the Mirena IUD. I had the IUD for 2 years and just recently had it taken out thinking that my terrible anxiety and panic. Since I have had the IUD taken out I have been experiencing depression, anxiety, panic. It seems to be all I am thinking about and it makes it hard for me to work. I don’t know what to do. I am thinking I should go to the doctor and have blood work done and test for hormonal imbalance but I am afraid they will just try to throw anti-depressants at me. I dont like taking them and doctors just keep prescribing them for me every time I go in about my panic/anxiety attacks. I believe I have a lot of the sings of hormonal imbalance. What should I do?
Hello, Kayla – Your endocrine system is undoubtedly out of whack due to your birth control use at an early age, your pregnancy and then more synthetic hormones with the Mirena IUD. I would suggest a combination of nutrient therapy as well as the Progessence Plus Serum. I see you understand the difference between ‘medicating’ and ‘healing.’ Antidepressants will only do so much – and if you do not get to the root cause of the problem you will be on meds for a long time.
Read through the posts here – and you will see that I have researched and recommend two products: Truehope EMPowerplus and the Progessence Plus Serum (natural progesterone). They are both great for starters and will help you get back on an even keel.
Keep posting and keep asking questions.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
After my son was born I experienced extreme nausea for the first 2 months. It was so bad that by the end of the day I could barely move and take care of my newborn child. I thought maybe the nausea was from giving birth to him. My contractions were very irregular and when I got to the hospital I was already 9 centimeters. When it was time to push my contractions would only come every 5 minutes which cause me to bleed more after he was born because my uterus would not clamp down. So I assumed that with loosing blood and the irregular contractions maybe that was why I was nauseous. The nausea eventually went away after the first few months. I never made the connection until now…I started my birth control again at that time. My son is almost 3 now and throughout those 3 years I have suffered from stomach issues. It was to the point that I seen a gastroenterologist and found out I have mild acid reflux. I took medication for that and it all seemed to go away for awhile. Then about 4 months ago I stopped taking my birth control because we wanted to have a another child. (Was on it for 8 years with the exception of the time I was pregnant) The first couple weeks were fine. Then the night before I got my period I woke up in the middle of the night with a burning sensation going through my body and my heart racing. I sat up and it seemed to go away for awhile then it came back when I laid down. I figured this was all due to getting my first period after coming off the pill. Then a few weeks later I woke up one morning with extreme nausea and burning pain in my stomach. My back and neck hurt as well. That week I went to the doctor and even the ER. They ran tests and said it was viral. The following week I seemed to be okay. Then the night before I got my period the same burning sensation came but this time with shaking and i could not sleep. It seems now it just keeps progressing. In the last 3 months I have missed 11 days of work. I am a teacher and this is not good for my students. I have had every symptom imaginable from nausea, heart racing, burning sensation throughout my body, headache, shaking, constapation, sore muscles, muscle weakness, back and neck pain. All my lab tests have been normal. The only hormone the doctor tested was thyroid hormones which was normal. The last visit he said that I have him stumped and he would like to try something for hormone imbalance and put me on Effexor. (Which is a major anti-depressant so I don’t understand what it has to do with hormones.) He said if it makes my symptoms worse call him and stop taking it. I have taken 2 doses and for the last 24 have had burning sensation throughout my body, non stop shaking, headache, dizziness, and feeling very tired. I have also woken up several times during the last 2 nights. I feel so much worse. The part that makes me mad is I have not been tested for my other hormones to see if they are even imbalanced before putting me on this medicine. I tried calling the doctor and was told he wont be back in the office until mid January. I am so frustrated. I was so happy 4 months ago and now I can barely do anything!
Hello, Amy – I am so sorry to hear that you are going through all of this. Could be a combination of hormone imbalance (it is the ratio of estrogen to progesterone that is important and not necessarily the levels – as well as nutrient depletion. During your pregnancy you gave a lot of vital nutrients to your baby. If you did not replace those through a whole food nutritional supplement you could be experiencing that as well.
Add to that your daily schedule and teaching – I bet you are giving more than you are receiving. Yes, this does sound like hormone imbalance and you are right Effexor has nothing to do with healing the imbalance.
I would seek out an endocrinologist who knows more about hormones – vs your ob/gyn who focuses on uterine and reproductive health. Or I would seek out a naturopath in your are who will treat you holistically.
Better yet, consult with Postpartum Wellness Consultant, Cheryl Jazzar . Cheryl will have great insights and affordable tips for you to start balancing your hormones as well as increasing your nutritional uptake.
Truehope EMPowerplus is a great nutritional supplement and has been used successfully for women suffering from a combination of hormone imbalances and nutrient deficiency.
Call them today too… and their professional educators will help you understand what is going on and how it can be treated.
You do not have to be feeling this way. Their are easy holistic therapies to help you get back into balance.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
hi,
i dont even know if this is related to me but i am at my wits end. Birth control causes me to have severe mood swings and depression.I also had prenatel depression with my son 6 yrs ago which cleared up completly after giving birth. I then took the injection depro vera 8 months after giving birth but within 2-3 days i was in a severe depression and had to be put on antidepressiants(lexapro).I stayed on these 8 months,they did little other than made me not care what i did to myself or others,it was a path of self destruction.against doctors advice i came off them cold turkey and in time i felt better. I am now 19 weeks pregnant and deeply depressed,reading through comments above i may be comptley off track as i am feeling the oppossite to most people. Pregnancy is hell at the min,my partner doesnt understand and wants to leave.I am confident that after the birth i will be fine but that is not good enough. I snap at my son and have no interest in anything, I know i can’t take any contraceptive again but that adds the fear of getting pregnant again and i dont think i could go through this another time.
If any light could be shed on this please help and if anyone else has the same problem as me it would be so good to hear from you as a big thing at the min is the feeling of being the only one. Anyone?
Dear Gillian – If you are experiencing depression during your pregnancy, I strongly suggest that you look into nutritional therapy. And now this depression will not get better after your pregnancy. Once your hormone levels drop post-pregnancy, you may experience postpartum depression all over again.
Depression during pregnancy is not normal – unless of course other issues are going on – including your partner wanting to leave.
Please look into the Truehope EMPowerplus nutritional supplement. They have had great success with women experiencing depression during pregnancy.
I cannot stress nutrient therapy enough. And I do not mean synthetic prenatal vitamins. They are not absorbed by the body – but the synthetic vitamins are stored in the fatty tissue and are not doing you any good.
You may also want to consult with Cheryl Jazzar – she is a Postpartum Wellness Consultant.
She will be able to help you understand your depression – and using natural therapies reverse the feeling so that you can enjoy your pregnancy, save your relationship and enjoy motherhood.
You do not have to be feeling this way.
Please seek some help with the resources I mentioned above.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello,
I am 36 years old, and have been on birth control for nearly 18 years, due to a diagnosis of PCOS. I recently discontinued these about 7 weeks ago, and have had daily severe anxiety/panic attack episodes, especially in the mornings for the last 2-3 weeks. I have always been a “worrier,” but never to this extent, and never with daily symptoms. I am having anxious, ridiculous thoughts, and this is fueling my anxiety. I work in the health care field, and have been desperate to feel better. I recently went to see a psychologist who started me on Lexapro and Ativan (temporarily). She advised me to restart my pill until the anxiety resolves, and then attempt to stop the pill at a later date.
I am so scared by this, and am requesting any advice possible. I have restarted a multivitamin, but am unsure if this is enough. Should I consult with a naturopathic physician, or with your staff?
Thanks so much Leslie!
Hello, Kristen – PCOS alone is indicative of too much estrogen in your body (estrogen dominance) or at least an imbalance in the ratio between estrogen and progesterone. Add the pill to that and your are adding more estrogen (synthetic) to your body further offsetting the ratio between these two hormones. Plus the pill depletes vital nutrients that will affect your levels of anxiety.
Adding the Progessence Plus Serum may be a good first step for you to offset these feelings you are experiencing while improving the ratio of hormone imbalance. The beauty of the Progessence Plus Serum is that the natural progesterone is infused with essential oils that clean off the cell receptor sites from the build up of synthetic hormones so that the progesterone can be absorbed on a cellular level. Plus you can apply these drops daily. Progesterone cream is applied to a monthly cycle. Most women are exposed to estrogen mimickers daily and we need this daily influx of progesterone.
Seeing a naturopath is an excellent idea…. or an endocrinologist who understands hormone balancing. OB/GYN’s focus on uterine health and reproductive issues – not hormone ratios or imbalance.
As far as the multi-vitamins go – if they are synthetic (Centrum, One-A-Day etc) you might as well throw them out. Synthetic vitamins are stored not absorbed by the body – just like synthetic hormones. Get to your health food store and look into getting whole food vitamins. Also pills deplete the mineral zinc – and zinc depletion will also anxiety panic attack problems as well as severe PMS.
Glad you realize that Lexapro and Ativan are a temporary fix. They only mask the symptoms – the information shared here is about healing.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
What do you mean by depersonalization being a red flag?
us poor women, menapause from hell. doctors do not understand. i can relate with all of you. had dizziness since i was 16,off an on for yrs .intensified when i turned 48 with lots of bizzare symptoms balance issues, weak legs, anxiety, depression,sweats , ect. i am now 55 still driving doctors crazy with what is ailing me. i tell them its hormones ,i tell them i cant tolerate medications. an i mean most medications. even bio-identical …i tried eating right , i tried accupuncture i tried chiropractor, i tried herbs, anything that causes water retention…drives me insane……an to emergency room.. ..so good luck to all my fellow people . sincerly
Hello everyone,
I am 20 , have been suffering with anxiety for five years now, and have just recently gotten off antidepressant. I had had irregular periods for a couple months, and after doing blood work showing I had a hormone imbalance ,was diagnosed with PCOS. My panic attacks have decreased significantly, my only Symptom being depersonalization. For the past month I have been experiencing depression bouts throughout the day, and am wondering if this is from getting off my medicine, or my hormone imbalance? My doctor also wants me to go on BC to regulate my PCOS. I don’t want To do Anything that is going to quick fix, or mask my problems. Any advice?
BCP’s are synthetic and they have caused the hormone imbalance. PCOS is estrogen dominance related.
You need natural progesterone… see the Progessence Plus on my blog.
Also nutrition.
Avoid plastics – they contain estrogen mimickers.
Please read this as well: http://preventativeconcept.com/library/women/progest.shtml
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi,
I just recently had a miscarriage that was so painful, physically and emotionally. While I was pregnant I had many strange symptoms. I always felt my haert was beating too fast and I had a lot of trouble sleeping. Now after the miscarriage I still occasionally have the same symptoms but also have terrible mood swings and also in the night I wake up almost every hour. I had my blood checked and was told my progesterone was low. I started progesterone cream after ovulation. Do you think its enough to get pregnant again and stay pregnant?
Hello, Aisha – Yes. Progesterone is crucial for ovulation and for maintaining the uterine lining to prevent miscarriage.
If you have read through some of the comments – you will know that it is not the levels of hormones but the ratio of one hormone to the other.
Let me know if you are having success on the cream. The Progessence Plus Serum on this site actually gets absorbed at the cellular level – not stored in the fatty tissues like the cream.
Here is a great article for you: Progesterone: Why Is It So Important During Pregnancy?
Good luck!
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Dear Leslie,
I found your website through a google search a few hours after I first realised that the depression and anxiety I have been suffering could be hormone related.
I started the birth control pill at the age of 14 to regulate my periods. I was placed on several different types trying to find the one that agreed with me and finally settled on one and stayed on it for 9 years until I was 23. At this age I got married and finally got fed up with the chronic thrush that seemed to follow me around from day one of starting the BCP. I was treated for 9 years with every kind of antibiotic going for the thrush and was told that there was no way the BCP was responsible for the thrush. I went on several anti-candida diets to no avail. Finally, after being married 6 months and having had to treat my new husband and myself with various pessaries and anti-biotics I was at my wits end and saw a new doctor who suggested going off the BCP as it might be causing the thrush. I went off the BCP immediately and am happy to say that I have only suffered once or twice with thrush since then which is now 8 years ago. Little did I know that the side effects of coming off the BCP would be more sinister than thrush. My doctor did not explain the repercussions or coming off the BCP so quickly.
Thinking back, I had a very difficult time with my hormones after coming off the BCP. I didn’t attribute the symptoms of depression and anxiety to the withdrawal from the BCP at the time. I remember in one instance, I had such severe panic attacks and pain in my chest that I thought I was having a heart attack. I landed up at the hospital and they did an ECG and confirmed I was only having a panic attack!
A year after I got married and went off the BCP we moved to London, UK. At the time, I thought the culture shock and loneliness was what sent me to the doctor with suicidal thoughts. I now realise that my periods weren’t even stable yet after coming off the BCP and am beginning to think that my hormones were out of whack and while I probably did have a little culture shock it wasn’t what was causing the depression! I have been on and off of 6 different anti-depressants and anxiety medications for 8 years and have been through absolute hell.
When I got pregnant with my daughter the depression got better in some ways and worse in others. I went cold turkey off the anti-depressants when I got pregnant. During my pregnancy I suffered with symphis pubis disfunction – (It is a condition that causes excessive movement of the pubic symphysis, either anterior or lateral, as well as associated pain, possibly because of a misalignment of the pelvis) – which I assume caused a lot of my misery. Pain is never easy to manage when you are unable to take any form of pain relief medication let alone with it. I had to leave work early because I had trouble walking and even sitting caused extreme pain.
After my daughter was born I was diagnosed with Post Partum depression/postnatal depression. My daughter is now 28 months old and I can safely say that the past 28 months of my life have been the most traumatic. The post partum depression has been the worst thing I have ever suffered. At first I was practically dismissed by my doctor when I told them of my symptoms. Then I was given more anti-depressants this time in stronger doses which kept creeping up and up. When that anti-depressant was found to be ineffective for me, I would go on another type of anti-depressant. I have worked my way through various SSRI‚Äôs and SNRI‚Äôs and can honestly say I don‚Äôt know if they have actually helped me. I‚Äôve taken them religiously because I‚Äôve been afraid that if I don‚Äôt I will be worse than I already feel but even on the medication I have felt chronically depressed. My doctor assured me that after 2 years the Post partum depression would just go away as if it never was there. What a load of rubbish! My daughter is 2 years and 4 months old and I don‚Äôt feel any better and I‚Äôm starting to wonder if I am ever going to get any better. While I no longer have the dreadful thoughts about my daughter and have thankfully developed a bond with her through hard work and perseverance through the PPD, I still have no enjoyment in life. People who knew me before our move to the UK (when I was on the BCP) say I am a completely different person and they don‚Äôt recognise the pessimistic miserable person I have become. I remember being a happy, self assured, slim and lively person with many interests and hobbies. I feel like a shell of a person now. I have Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia episodes, Fatigue, Feelings of being crazy, foggy brain, Overwhelm, extreme demotivation, irritation, Heart palpitations, Panic attacks, Irritability, Leg cramps, Menstral irregularities, Memory problems, Mood swings, Night sweats, Skin spot, Weeping, Weight gain, Anger , Lack of enjoyment in life, sugar cravings… the list goes on and on and on. My marriage is suffering and for the most part I feel like I just want it all to end so much that I consider suicide. The only thing that stops me is thoughts of leaving my daughter. I could never do that.
From the research I have done in the past 24 hours I am now convinced that my hormones are out of balance and I hope that you can help me. I am very confused about where I should even start to balance my hormones. Will I have to read hundreds of books and try hundreds of natural remedies before I start to feel better? We are now a single income family due to my depression and the fact that I am raising my daughter and I cannot afford private healthcare. I have a friend who suffers from premenstrual syndrome and has tried getting help from my GP for it she has been dismissed as if she is crazy so I know that my GP will not be a source of help to me. I don’t know what to do or where to start. I just know that I cannot go on like this. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. My email address is leo.robertson@yahoo.co.uk
Many thanks in advance for your help
Hello, Leo – what a long story – and so like many other women.
You are hormonally imbalanced and nutritionally depleted.
Everything you described fits into both of these categories.
You do not have to read through hundreds of books. We have done all of the reading and research for you. A lot of it is posted here.
Contact Cheryl Jazzar she is a Postpartum Wellness Consultant.
She and I work together to help many women.
She can consult over Skype – we do it all of the time.
You need nutrients – you have depleted your body with your pregnancy.
You were on a hormone high – during your pregnancy and crashed when it was over.
I also strongly suggest you consider the Progessence Plus Serum. I think you maybe progesterone deficient.
Reach out to Cheryl – she can help you on your limited budget.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi again I have a question as to the use of progesterone cream I bought a brand called Emerita I’ve read the instructions but im still lost as when to start it ,it just says use for 21 days and stop for 7 im asuming during that time of the month…???
rom pcos and all hormonal imbalances everyone in my family has pitty for me and says its ok shes a lil ceazy and that freakin hurts me.Im suffering f
I am sorry Noora – PCOS is a result of estrogen dominance. You are not crazy – you have a hormone imbalance issue.
Hormones are the body’s communicators. When they are out of whack they affect us mentally, emotionally and physically (PCOS).
What do you want to do about this?
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi It’s me again it been two weeks that I’ve been taking empower pluce i feel a little better, but last night I hada panick attack the whole works heart palps felt I couldn’t breath and felt weak, all the while with my two kids that need me and I have to pretend I’m fine so I don’t scare them,my period is 8days late, I’m at a loss It’s almost 7 months that I started felling like this after a month on bc I started it bc last yr around the same time as today I was getting my period twice a month I was checked for everything had internal ultrasounds and was normal my hormones were checked before and after i used the bcpill and hormones were normal , I was reading abt progesterone and I ordered a cream I hope it helps at this point I fell im self medicating because every time I see a doctor I get no answers , my brother last night toled me that maybe It’s some sort of post partum?? I dont know my son is two yrs old and after I had him I bleed almost for a month and then It stoped for two weeks and I got a period and when he was 3 month old i had major surgery I had a tumor removed from my right side of my face on my salivery gland I noticed it grew with my first pregnancy then with my second it grew 4 x the size , and in this yr I had vaginal cyst removed in july I fell like everything is happening I don’t feel depressd or sad just nervous … I’ve chainged eating habits also ,,, I hope the new yr is diff from this one =\
HI, Yolanda – this has been a rough year for so many of us. And for women especially – and our hormones are changing. My guess is you are about to get your period. You do need these nutrients – but it will take a while for you to see more than minimal results especially if you have postpartum which it sounds like your brother may be right. I am glad you are looking into the natural progesterone. Try the cream – if it works great – if it stops working – then get back to me and we can look into the Progessence Plus.
Hopefully, the progesterone cream will get absorbed at a cellular level and not stored. No worries you should feel immediate effects. Keep me posted.
Remember you are healing – not medicating. Healing takes time – and it will re-balance your body. Perhaps your menstrual cycle is re-regulating itself too. (unless of course you have had unprotected sex).
Changing your eating habits are crucial as well. You are doing all of the right things.
I am glad you have been checked by your doctor… remember it is not the levels of hormones but the ratio of progesterone to estrogen that is crucial. Please read this article on the benefits of progesterone use: http://preventativeconcept.com/library/women/progest.shtml
If you do get your period – and you are bleeding heavily you may look into getting Vitamin C with ascorbic acid and bioflavnoids. The bioflavnoids strengthen uterine capillaries which sound like they were severely stressed after your pregnancy.
We need to stop asking ‘what’s wrong with me?’ and start looking at these imbalances as hormone related and nutrient depletion. There is a lot of literature on this. It is a new paradigm of healing… but it is one that will carry us into the new year.
Blessings to you – and keep posting and asking questions.
Leslie
i’ve been living absolutely horribly since i started my period at the age of 13. i lashed out at my family, i was on antidepressants, anxiety pills, i became suicidal, more antidepressants. i went through suicidal phases and phases where i would become extremely angry before my period started (starting 2 weeks before) and then i’d be fine each time it started. i got pregnant with my daughter at the age of 17. i cried almost non-stop being pregnant with her but i was peaceful, i wasn’t suicidal, and i didn’t lash out at anyone. after having her, i was okay for about 13 months (the length i breastfed) but once i quit breastfeeding i spiraled out of control with my mood swings. i ended up leaving my family, trying to kill myself, and ending up in a psychiatric ward where they prescribed MORE antidepressants. i had 7 miscarriages after that and each time my mood swings would increase and become worse. they tried “fixing” me with different birth controls, which also made it worse. weaning off of the birth control pills and antidepressants caused me to be even worse getting pregnant this time. the first two months were horrible, but ever since i’ve felt like a new person. i’m calm, relaxed, peaceful, no anxiety, sadness, depression, or suicidal thoughts. we found out we’re having a boy this time. and i’m terrified to become the horrible person i was again after giving birth. does this sound like a hormonal imbalance problem, or something else? i’ve had thyroid testing that has come back normal, but they’ve always refused to test my hormone levels and just end up treating with antidepressants and birth controls. i’m due in april/may 2013 and i’m hoping to have a plan before anything goes wrong.
Carly -I am so glad you reached out to me. You are feeling fine during your pregnancy because you are on a ‘hormone progesterone high’.
It appears you may be deficient in progesterone. Low progesterone levels may cause miscarriages… You are also nutritionally depleted from pregnancies and miscarriages… and over all lack of nutrition in your diet. Pregnancies take every vital vitamin, mineral and amino acid to create a healthy baby. If you do not have enough in your body… you are the one who suffers.
Low levels of Zinc in the diet – can cause this severe mood shifts you are referring to.
Please call Truehope today – check into their EMPowerplus supplement. You need to be building yourself up nutritionally know so you do not crash and burn after this pregnancy – and we both know you will – which is why you are reaching out.
You may also consider Progessence Plus Serum – natural progesterone that can be used during pregnancy. This too will raise your progesterone levels so you will not crash.
Stay in touch – I can help you with these products… and also get more advice.
I am so glad you reached out. You should AND CAN enjoy your motherhood, your children and partner.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello,
I desperately need help to save my marriage before it is too late. My wife and I had two miscarriages in a 3 month time frame which ended about 4 months back. Since then, my wife has totally viewed our marriage as a complete shame (have been together 11 years, married for 3), says she has never loved me, and a million other very random and hurtful things (says I blamed her for the second miscarriage, which is completely untrue). All that is somewhat irrelevant here; but she started showing these signs about 4 weeks following the second miscarriage and it has been going on for 3 months since. Our marriage keeps going back and forth from divorce stage to just being roommates now. The timeframe in which this all taking place is hard for me to see as a coincidence, and I continue to feel that it could be possibly due to a hormone imbalance following these pregnancies. I have been trying to get her to seek help in a form of hormone testing, but she refuses. She says that she was tested following the second miscarriage, and her numbers went down to 0 following that. Can someone please tell me if the testing done following a miscarriage (to say that she could again start trying having kids), is conclusive to determining that she could not be experiencing hormone imbalances now (seems like she is experiencing postpartum almost from the miscarriages). In other words, are the tests to determine if she was cleared to try having kids again the same as what she may be tested for now to determine if any hormones are out of control? Please help fast, I am desperately seeking answers since she refuses to believe that the way she is acting/feeling is related to anything other than some mistakes I have made along the way. Thank you in advance for you help…
Hello, Patrick – Thanks for reaching out. May times low levels of progesterone can cause miscarriages. It is not necessarily the hormones levels as much as the ratio between the hormones. I am not sure about the testing you are inquiring about. Have you considered going to see an endocrinologist? They specialize in hormones – whereas ob/gyns focus on uterine and reproductive health.
It does sound like your wife is deficient in progesterone… as well as nutritionally depleted. She needs to have nutrients to maintain a pregnancy too. I am sorry you are bearing the brunt of your wife’s emotions. I would be very glad to help and work with her. I am sure she is as miserable as you – but can no longer control how she feels or what she is saying.
What type of birth control has she been using?
It seems to me that you wife is suffering PPD – post miscarriage which is a severe drop in hormones after pregnancy (as well as nutrient depletion.) Please contact Cheryl Jazzar. She is a postpartum wellness consultant and will offer some very sage advice which you both need right now.
You need to do this to save your relationship as well as to prevent further miscarriages.
It can be done. Keep reaching out. You can have the woman you fell in love with back.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi there,
I’m 27 years old. I had 2 babies about 17 moths apart. When my 2nd baby was around 3 months, I thought I was getting a cold. I felt like my throat was getting tight, that night I had a panic attack. I didn’t know it was one, I have never had one before. Everything kinda went downhill from there. I was feeling totally fine before this. I then started having heart palps., like I was having mini heart attacks and anixety. I didn’t know that anixety could be that bad! I went to the docs, then to the er. They told me to go to my gyno, thats when the PPD word started coming around. They put me zoloft and xanx, I have never been on anything like that before. I would hardly take anything for a headache. I was also trying to get baack on birth control all at the same time! I lost 14 pounds in 6 days and was a veggie!! It was horrible, I ended up taking myself off those. I went to my primary and they did some blood test and it came back with hyperthyroid, which made so much sense to me. The ball in my throat I kept talking about! I then started with an endo, they did some test and the nurse prac. there said that my thyroid was normal and she put me on cymbalta and told me I was PPD. I gave in and took cymbalta for 9 1/2 months. Throughout that time, I felt like it made me worst, I had racing horrible thoughts and it was horrible to go through. I ask if I could come off the meds and went in for my regular 1 1/2 month visit and she was going through my latest blood tests and quickly said my thyroid was high and I was hypothyroid. I asked her about it again, only because everytime I have been in the office I said I still feel like a have a ball in my throat and it felt like my throat would close. I had brought up thyroidisits after pregnancy all the time. I then went to another endo and took all my tests results with me. He was a wonderful older man, doesn’t sugar coat it about other docs. He told me my thyroid was ranging high and low the whole time and I was very anemic! I had no idea I was anemic. So now 14 moths since that 1st panic attack. My thyroid is back to normal and my anemia is under control. But now every week and half before my period, almost from when I ovulate. I get horrible hot flashes, anixety that could knock someone out, racing thoughts, afraid of everything, irritable, no sex drive, bouts of depression, on and off sleeping. I have always had pain in my right side, in my ovary area, was told mild endometrosis, but now it gets pretty intense. Bad lower back pain, I exercise regularly, eat good! I take fish oil and multi-vitamin, I will do anything I can naturally to get my body back together. I know its some type of hormonal imbalance. My new endo wants me on estrogen, but I don’t think that’s it, these hot flashes are the worst. I have never known depression or anxiety ever!! I’m meeting with a counselor this week, she deals with women and there hormonal imbalances and anixety, I’m hoping to all that she can help me get back to me:) That’s all I want, if there is any advice please, please feel free to throw it at me!!
Hello, Kearstin – I am sorry you are going through all of this. What a ride.
OK – two pregnancies back to back is especially hard on your body these days because most of us – women and men are under nutrated.
Pregnancies take vital nutrients out of the body right? That is how a baby is developed…. if those nutrients are not replaced and absorbed by the body (not stored in the fatty tissue) – you will suffer. Prenatal vitamins are not sufficient because the body does not absorb them and they are stored in the tissue.
You need nutrients that get absorbed at the cellular level. That is why the Truehope EMPowerplus is so very powerful for balancing the hormones. Hormone production begins in the brain – and if the brain and body do not have nutrients – you can pump hormones and everything else into your body and but if your endocrine system is not functioning at the neural level the hormones will be absorbed.
Please look into the Truehope EMPowerplus This will start the healing process in the brain so that you neuro-endocrine-immune systems will start functioning.
Or again go to your health food store and get whole food vitamins ….Their have been plenty of studies linking zinc deficiency to anxiety disorders and premenstrual issues.
And you may also want to consider the Progessence Plus Serum
I am not sure the estrogen is what you need – especially synthetic. But keep me posted.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I was wondering if the things I am experiencing are hormonal related. Last winter I went through a time where I had felt like I couldn’t breathe with a lot of burping along with pain in my chest. I am 43 and I got checked out by the doctor and they didn’t find anything wrong. I even had a endoscope test and colonoscopy. I have since started exercising and have lost about 30 lbs. I felt good through the summer and fall, but now the symptoms have returned with a vengeance. I really haven’t felt like myself since I had my son by c-section in 2009, I now have VERY heavy periods that last like 10 days. I told my gyn that I thought it was hormonal, but they didn’t find anything when they checked. Does this sound like hormones imbalance, I feel like I’m going crazy with worry.
Hello, Rhonda – I did find this information on hormone imbalance and indigestion: http://womenworld.org/health/hormonal-imbalances,-heart-disease,-and-indigestion.aspx
Are your periods still regular? Some of your symptoms may also be due to nutrient depletion….especially after your pregnancy. And C-sections can also affect hormone imbalance. As for heavy periods – if everything else if ruled out – women have used Vitamin C with ascorbic acid AND bioflavnoids. Bioflavnoids strengthen uterine capillaries as well as all other capillaries, and veins and arteries in the body. It is very possible your uterus was stressed during your pregnancy….and now the capillaries are breaking easily. You can get this Vitamin C combo at a health food store. Make sure you are getting a whole food vitamin and not a synthetic. Synthetic are stored in the body and not absorbed at the cellular level.
Are you using birth control? Are you drinking water out of plastic bottles or microwaving in plastic. Plastics are loaded with estrogen mimickers that will offset hormone imbalance.
Please come back to me and provide more information.
Have you had a hormone analysis done?
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
oh i also forgot to mention that i have NEVER injected myself with any kind of needles.
i am absolutely thrilled that i found this website. i am a 23 year old, anxiety ridden, hypochondriac female. Any one who knows me could tell you this! Long story short, i did a lot of “street” drugs when i was 16-21 years old (not proud of it) but i basically got clean on my own, and moved on to bigger and better things. Well over a year ago i went to my doctor complaining of dizzyness, no balance, low energy, low libido, thinning hair, and bad skin. She tested me, said everything was fine besides an iron and b12 deficiency, so i listened and religiously took my capsules (even up until today) well i have been progressively getting worse. I cant exactly remember when the night sweats staretd (thats how long its been) but i just feel depressed, SO much anxiety, NO libido whatsoever (unless i drink alcohol) i dont want to be phsyically active, cannot stop my cravings -and i used to eat extremely well- and i just got tired of it. i went to a naturopath, she said i have a hormonal imbalance and adrenal fatigue, she gave me liver support supplements, zinc, adrenal support supplements, iron, b12, biotin, and fish oils. My hair started coming in, skin getting better, but night sweats still around, i have good days and then REALLY bad days… dont want to wake up in the morning, i dont want to do anything! 2 weeks ago my body began to itch everywhere, and i was getting cold night sweats (never drenching) and heart palpitations, then i checked my lymph nodes and they are swollen on the right side of my neck. Of course i did online research (being the hypochondriac) and i immediately went to my doctor yesterday, she did several blood tests, including lymphoma and HIV. This has been killing me, i am bawling as i type this now. I am so anxiety ridden, and have this inner turmoil and crippling fear that i may have one of these diseases, my doctor didnt seem to care and i am absolutely petrified! I seriously thought i was having a heart attack when i left her office yesterday. WHAT is happening to me?!?! When she checked my thyroid over a year ago she said i was fine, so now i’m really starting to think, could this be HIV? i really dont want to talk about this here but i have no one to discuss this with, no one relates with me and i feel completely alone. Please help me, someone e-mail me and give me some answers, i am losing my mind 🙁
Hello, Ewelina – thank you for posting… it took a great deal of courage to be so honest. I bow to you.
I am glad you found this web site too.
When will you have the test results back?
What kind of birth control are you on?
Sounds like in addition to your nutrient depletion – that you may also be estrogen dominant. Read through these symptoms here: http://www.johnleemd.com/store/estrogen_dom.html
Living in fear is a horrible thing. And we all do it.
Please educate yourself and do more research.
With all of the science-based and nutritional research being done – there is hardly anything that cannot be treated or managed.
Even HIV…
Viruses come out to play in the body when it is acidic (under-nutrated), too many processed and ‘dead’ foods, microwaved foods, sugar, alcohol, smoking etc., etc.
Body PH is crucial to health.. Even if these viruses are not active they are like parasites in the body sucking nutrition out of our cells. We have all be exposed to viruses. The stronger our immune system – the more likely we are to keep them at bay.
You want to have a more alkaline diet – fresh fruits and vegetables – organic. Also drinking a few tablespoons of organic apple cider vinegar in water is very beneficial to turning an acidic body to a more alkaline state – http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/10-health-benefits-of-apple-cider-vinegar.html
Do not panic – or get anxious… get well.
We may also want to look into natural progesterone posted on my site – Progessence Plus – And a stronger supplement like Truehope EMPowerplus
Dr. Joe Wallach – also a a product line – called ’90 for Living’ He believes disease is the result of a lack of nutrition and that we need 90 essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids daily. Following protocols like this will keep viruses at bay in your body and will replace the nutrients that they are needed to survive.
There are so many options for healing Ewelina… try not to panic too much.
Keep posting here.
I will support you and advocate for you as best I can.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Thanks Leslie will get some money together and be in touch to order shortly
Regards Andrea
Excellent Andrea… so good to know you have been following the comments and the information I have shared. You can share so much with the women in your country too. This is a worldwide problem for women.. I have heard from women as far away as South Africa… who are following this post and emailing me privately with their concerns. BPA – plastic is surrounding women especially in the developing world. We need to reach out and support each other to get well.
There is a Native American proverb that I keep close to my heart:
We cannot allow that to happen. We need to educate and heal ourselves.
Hormonally yours.
Leslie
Not olive pluce
I have a question you think that the empower olive will help with my hair falling out??
Yes, possibly… overall nutrition of course… however, that right there indicates estrogen dominance – and low progesterone…
However, I found this great article last week – that really addresses the issue of hair loss and nutrition. Why is your hair falling out?
Article clearly states that nutrition deficiencies can cause hair loss.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Andrea morris
I live in Trinidad, West Indies. would you post and what is the cost
Thank you for your help
Andrea
Hello, Andrea – I am assuming you are interested in the Progessence Plus Serum – natural progesterone cream.
The retail price is $46.05 and the Fed Ex shipping is $25.00. It is cleared to go through customs.
If you become a distributor of the product – in the future – the price will drop to $35.00 per bottle… but the shipping will remain the same.
There will be tax of course… but that cannot be calculated until we have you account order and your address. But that can be done and if you think it is out of your budget – we can cancel the order.
I would be very happy to assist you with this.
Kind regards,
Leslie
Hi again,
Just letting you know I received the results of my 28 day saliva hormone test and it seems I have very low levels of progesterone and normal to high levels of estrogen. It looks like I will be ordering some progesterone cream once I receive a prescription from my GP, otherwise I have been informed the cream will be stopped at customs.
My nutritionist has also recommended I get a full thyroid test too.
Thank you for all of your help. I appreciate it., especially since it must take you so long to reply to all of these posts. It’s always nice to have someone listen to and give advice, I hope the issue will sort itself out soon.
Hello, Amina – I am so glad the information I posted has been so helpful to you – and that it pointed you in the right direction.Thanks for the acknowledgement of the time and effort I put into each comment and reply to someone’s question. Education is crucial – and the only way to do that is to address each problem individually.
As far as the progesterone goes… I think you should call the 800 number I provided yesterday. A woman from the UK signed up last night to receive the PPS. Thre is a European distributorship – and if you go to the Young Living home page – you will see they are located all over the world. Customs is not an issue here.
Post like yours keep me heartened – and are affirming that I am on the right track in helping women understand their anxiety, depression and other issues related to hormone imbalance.
Good luck on your journey to hormone harmony – and let us know how you are doing.
There will be many here who will be wanting to know of your experience.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi, at the moment I am using a natural progestrone cream but it is taking sometime to kick in, I have also started having Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and wondering what else i need.
regards
Andrea
Hello, Andrea… you need nutrition for starters… and lots of it after four pregnancies.. if you cannot do the Truehope EMPowerplus get to your health food store and find someone knowledgeable and tell them what you are going through. You need a whole food multi-vitamin with minerals, amino acids, and minerals – especially zinc. Zinc depletion can cause anxiety. Am not familiar with biodynamic cranisacral therapy… but if it is targeting the brain – it is all good.
As for the progesterone cream – it is slow on the uptake because it is not being absorbed at the cellular level and is getting stored in the fatty tissue. Why? You have too many synthetic hormones clogging the receptor sites on the cells in your body and the progesterone cannot get through. The Progessence Plus Serum is infused with essential oils – a specific blend that will clear off the receptor sites so the progesterone can get into the cells. And you can apply a few drops daily – important since we are all exposed to xenoestrogens on a daily basis.
Email me at leslie@holyhormones.com if you want to try this.
Keep moving forward and you will achieve hormone harmony.
Leslie
Hi, thank you for your reply,
I had 4 pregnancies in total, had been on birth control think 2 yrs, had been given HRT in the past but only too it a few months, last had 1 mth brfore I stopped it again.
regards
andrea
Hi, Andrea… well you are in the right place… if all other problems are ruled out (and I say that because I should) then you are experiencing a combination of hormone imbalance (BCP’s and HRT) and nutrition depletion (four pregnancies).
How do you want to proceed? You deserve to be living to your optimum capacity – and not be incapacitated by these two issues.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi I’ve posted before abt my anxiety , I’ve tried to take some vitamins that semi worked but I got frustrated that my symptoms come and go and an anoying pain on my left arm doesnt go away along with being nervous abt nothing so with your recomendation I just received the empowerpluce vitamins and will start taking them tomorrow I don’t know but I’m nervous of the amount that I was toled to take but hopefully I’ll feel better soon !!! Wish me luck!!! I do belive I caused this issue to my self after many yrs of abuse to my body from two kids and a ex over night job that allowed me only 3-4 hrs of sleep per day and a month on birth control that brought me over the edge. Ill post back if there’s a difference!!!
Yolanda – you have done the right thing… I agree with everything you have said about your kids and your ex and working a job that only allowed 3 to 4 hours asleep. The only thing I disagree with is how you worded the phrase “I do believe I caused this issue to my self after many yrs of abuse to my body…” Do not be hard on yourself. You did the best you could with the only information you had at the time. Unfortunately for all women, we have not been educated about the importance of our endocrine health to our well being. What is most important is that you have read through the comments and my replies – and that it made sense to you. You became educated. And now you are taking the steps to correct the imbalance.
Do not be concerned about the amount of capsules you need to take. I took the same amount in the beginning without any problems. Your body will respond fine. These supplements are not like drugs where you can take too much and suffer side effects… they are nutritional supplements and once your body starts sensing their presence it is going to want more…. until it is satiated… caught up with the imbalance. Then you will go on a maintenance plan… to sustain the levels your body needs for optimum functioning.
Keep posting and let us know how you are doing.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello again i just wanted to post again about my crazy cycles. Well, as I said in past post that last month my period started on day 18. This month it is day 35 and still no period. I started using progestion cream just this past month because it was early now i’m late…whew! I have been having period like cramping all month it seems but still no period. The cramping it not bad but it seems to throw me off alittle by thinking I’m finally starting. I take my vitamins every morning and night. I just had a complete physical and the blood work came back fine but showing I have high cholestrol…:( I am soooo fustrated with feeling like I am not in control here. I will be watching all my food and excerising more to get my cholestrol down but what about my period??? What do you think? perimenopause? menopause?
I came across this site by accident and found it very interesting, I am 60yrs at present having terrible anxiety problems also diagnosed with type 2 diabetes despite having no family history.
for about 15 or more years I have suffer with severe anxiety, panic attacks have had so many visits to Dr’s, to emercency rooms, only to be told there is nothing wrong. 11 yrs ago I was told you are depressed and put on Zoloft which I stopped taking this pass January. Well the anxiety has been back with me since around March and refuses to go away, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope on a daily basis. been to the Dr’s first i was told it was migraine, then depression, then given HRT (premarin) which I did not take, tried to get hormone levels checked but was told no it is something women go through. i am at my wits end to know where to turn to.
reading these other women’s problems give me some sort of hope.
Hello, Andrea – If there is an imbalance in the body – anxiety will not go away and it will increase with time…
At 60 years old you are probably nutritionally depleted – do not know how many pregnancies you had had – but each pregnancy takes vital nutrients out of the body. If they are not replaced… and synthetic prenatal vitamins do not do the job – you are going to become nutritionally depleted.
Also I do not know your birth control history – so I have no idea if you are hormonally imbalanced or nutritionally depleted from synthetic hormones.
But then again, the premarin alone is enough to make a woman hormonally imbalanced – especially if the symptoms were already there…
Not to mention that type 2 diabetes is also a result of hormone imbalance.
So am going to suggest to you as I have suggested to so many others on this page – that is all over medical problems have been ruled out… get a natural progesterone product – like the Progessence Plus Serum – as well as the
Truehope EMPowerplus supplements.
You can restore your health with nutrients and getting more natural progesterone into your body.
And you can start feeling better within a month….
I am glad you read through the comments – and that they have given you hope. And I pray that my response will give your more hope by doing these simple things for your health.
Please keep us posted on your progress.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
PS – Here is an article that came out of the UK on Hormone Imbalance – http://www.bio-hormone-health.com/2012/12/10/symptoms-that-you-might-have-a-hormonal-imbalance/
Hi Leslie,
Thank you for the reply. I really appreciate it. I do carry a bit of extra weight around my thigh, hip and stomach region. It has been 2 months and 1.5 weeks since I stopped using the oral contraceptive pill, and 3.5 months since the first panic attack and the severe anxiety began. I did not have depression when that happened (although the severe anxiety did disable me for a couple of months) but I have had that especially bad over the last few days.
I’m just a little confused as my last period the anxiety decreased once I got my period but this time it has actually increased.
I would like the order the Progessence Plus serum but I believe that I require a prescription from my GP to have USP-grade progesterone serums or creams imported into the country (or else it gets stopped at customs from what I hear). This puts me in a bit of a difficult place.
It sounds like my hormones will balance out in time by themselves by I need a hand, especially since I haven’t been able to work in the last 3 months.
Thank you.
Hey – Amina – Sorry for the delayed response.
Interesting that your anxiety increased after your period…
Have you had your hormone levels tested at all.
Here is a toll free number for Young Living in the UK UK—0800 9179438. If found their number on their web site: http://www.youngliving.com/en_GB/contact/customerCare.html
Why don’t you call them and you can see what the rules are for getting the Progessence Plus.Also ask what the shipping and handling charges are….
Once you know that then we can get it ordered here…. also ask what the cost conversion is: UK to US.
Please remember that it is not just balancing your hormones it is also getting the nutrition you need to the brain so that the endocrine system – as well as all other systems can function correctly. If the hormones are going to be balanced – they will need support from the endocrine and the brain to do that.
This is a whole need field of science and medicine that is just beginning to open up…even though the research has been done for years.
Please look into getting a whole food multi-vitamin, mineral, amino acid and enzyme supplement from your health food store. Your anxiety – since you have been unable to work for three weeks… may be more deep-seated than just hormone balancing. Nutrition is crucial.
Stay in touch and let me know what else I can do for you.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Thank you so much for replying. I went to the physician and she recommended going to see a neurologist. I’m not on any birth control or any other medication but my doctor did say I have slight anemia and i should eat more iron in my foods. We didn’t actually go to the neurologist because it was a few cities away, but I guess I should go to one since it would probably help…do you know what he would do though? Like i see i should eat more nutrients and vitamins, is there anything else?
Hello, Sana… it is so hard to say – and you are suffering – I would suggest seeing a neurologist to rule out any other issues.
If there are none – then perhaps we can look at the nutrition. Read this article by Dr. John Lee on estrogen dominance. Check your environment for xenoestrogens. Plastics for one. Do you microwave in plastics?
Did you see the post on my blog about BPA (estrogen mimickers) found in fetal livers? What was our mother’s birth control history.
Most of us do not get enough minerals in our diets. Zinc is crucial for preventing premenstrual syndrome anxiety….
Once you see a neurologist and he rules out any other underlying issues – then perhaps you may want to see a naturopath – someone who is well versed in the nutritionally aspects of health…
You can also go to your health food store and find a whole food multivitamin supplement that will support your brain health.
The Truehope EMPowerplus supplement is probably the best on the market – but you and your folks will have to decide if that fits in your budget.
EMPowerplus gets nutrients to the brain to sustain and improve mental health.
These are all options… and they are manageable.
Keep posting – and let us know how you are doing and what decisions you are your family are making. We care about you.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi again,
Just an update on where I am at since my last few posts. It has been 2.5 months since I have been off the oral contraceptive pill. The heart palpitations have mostly stopped. I am still very anxious though but can still go to the shopping centre etc but not yet back at work or driving again. Last time I got my period I felt a bit better. This time I got my period, my anxiety is increasing and so is the depression. I have been taking the correct nutrients that the nutritionist recommended. I have looked at the symptoms of estrogen dominance and it sounds like that is what I have.
I will get my 28 day hormone saliva test results in about a week. Even if my hormone levels come up ok, could I still be estrogen dominant? It really seems to fit. I’m in Australia and have just learned that I need a prescription to order progesterone creams. Is this correct? Would I need to a prescription to order the progesterone serum from your website?
Hello, Amina – so glad to have you posting again and giving us an update. It does take a while for the endocrine system to re-regulate itself. I am so happy you are working with a nutritionist and taking supplements. You are definitely moving in the right direction.
Regarding estrogen dominance. Even though you are off the pill – the synthetic estrogen is still be stored in the fatty tissue of the body. Are you carrying extra weight around your waist, abdomen or thighs? And it my take months for that to start dissipating. The nutrients are going to support your metabolism so that it can start digesting and excreting some of the stored toxins and that is an excellent move.
However, we are all still exposed to xenoestrogens – through plastics, the makeup we wear, household solvents, water, meats etc. So yes it is very possible that you have estrogen dominance – especially if that seems to resonate with you. I believe that hormone tests reveal levels of hormones – not the ratios. According to endocrinologist, Dr. Margarita Ochoa-Maya hormone analysis is still a very new process and needs to be explored. Too many women are told they have ‘normal’ levels of hormones yet still experience estrogen dominance.
Look at the feature post on my web site today: BPA Passed In-Utero to Fetal Liver
This is why young women – and I hope the Mom who posted here concerned about her daughter will read this… have hormone imbalance at such a tender age. BPA is a very dangerous chemical and it is filled with estrogen mimickers.
I do suggest the Progessence Plus Serum natural progesterone infused with essential oils. The oils clear off the receptor sites on the cell – clearing out the residual synthetic hormones allowing the progesterone to get into the cells instead of getting stored in the fat tissue. Many women – some who have posted here – get the progesterone cream and it works for a while but becomes ineffective. This is the reason why.
Another benefit of the PPS is that it is an oil and can be taken everyday. We all need that because of the constant exposure to xenoestrogens. Remember it is important to keep the ratio of estrogen and progesterone in tact. And that needs to be done daily.
When Dr. John Lee developed progesterone cream – we did not have the daily bombardment of xenoestrogens… and that my friends is the biggest challenge we face.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Thanks for the info. The pill i was taking was microgynon 30 for years. It never gave me any problems. i did not take any supplements during pregnancy apart from folic acid initially.
Well 30 years on a BCP may cause hormone imbalance – only because your own hormone production has been suppressed for so long… but then again you gave birth twice. So you had enough hormones to do that.
Be that as it may you need more nutrients than just folic acid to maintain your health during the pregnancies. If there is nothing else out of order – I would say a essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids are in order. You may just be run down. Also the birth control depletes a host of nutrients. Make sure you read this post: https://holyhormones.com/birth-control/birth-control-pillsbcps/birth-control-pills-deplete-vital-nutrients/
What I do know – is that if you do not take care of this imbalance and nutritional deficiency now it will only worsen. Does not take much to get back on your feet. This article really spells it out Pamela – HOW PREGNANCY DEPLETES NUTRIENTS It was written by Cheryl Jazzar Postpartum Wellness Consultant who has posted here many times.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hello, I had a c-section at 39 with my second child. I took a panic attack in hosp, first one in my life. For about 2 weeks i seem to suffer from anxiety. It stopped then 5 months later returned. I have been receiving acupuncture for 1 year and taking xiao yao wan which has certainly helped, but i am still bad from after my period to ovulation. I am not on birth control pill. In reading all the advise could i be estrogen dominent? I eat healthy, exercise, drink lots of water, eat nuts, but still seem to up and down. Any suggests?
Hello, Pamela – Wondering what type of birth control you were on before you became pregnant? That is crucial to understanding if you may be estrogen dominant.
Wondering also if you took any nutrient supplements during your pregnancy? As you have read here… replacing the nutrients that your body provides to the fetus is crucial. If not, your body becomes extremely fatigued. Glad to know you are eating well. That is important. But I do not see mention of any minerals in the short list of what you are eating. Most of us are mineral depleted….and there are many including Truehope as well as Dr. Joe Wallach, author of ‘Dead Doctor’s Don’t Lie‘- that the lack of minerals in our diets causes many of the mental/emotional/physical imbalances we experience today.
It is almost impossible for anyone of us to be getting all of the nutrients we need from any of the food sources we eat.
Going back to your C-section. Since the pregnancy was induced – it may very well be that your hormone regulation was thrown off – and if you are nutritionally depleted was never able to readjust.
The other reality you need to keep in mind is that at 39 you are probably going into peri-menopause… so now you have three whammy’s working against you.
Would not hurt to get on the Progessence Plus Serum – you have read about that on this site… and I would definitely look into a strong micronutrient supplement to support you on your journey.
Of course you are aware, I am not a medical professional and the advice and insight I provide is based on the education and research I have read and conducted over the past 30 years…. and most importantly – a good dose of women’s intuition and wisdom. That is something else we all need to get back to. Believing in ourselves and what we feel is intuitively out of balance. All of you who have posted here – have taken that very important first step.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Leslie,
I came across this website a few months ago and was really intrigued, I have been suffering for the past 5 months with anxiety and depression. I have a history of anxiety and depression but truly believe it is hormone related. I started the birth control pill when I was 17 years old due to extreme PMS and menstrual cramps. I remained on the birth control pill for 8 years, and came off a month and became pregnant with my daughter in 2009. Throughout my pregnancy I continued on my Zoloft and very small dose of Klonopin as I had been on these prior to pregnancy. My pregnancy was amazing and I felt at such peace with no anxiety or depression. Postpartum was a little rocky for the frst 2 weeks, but I chose to breastfeed my daughter which I think made a world of difference. I breastfed her until 18 months ( August 2011)! I was doing very well except with some anxiety symptoms during ovulation phases, until July 2012. I was stressed but dealing with things well, but my periods became erractic and I was spotting in between. I became extremley emotional and scared. Within a week ( before my period)I found myself in an anxiety ridden state with intermittent episodes of depression, despite being on Zoloft and low dose Klonopin. I also am working with a naturopath whom I have done saliva testing with and have been taking supplements through Neuroscience. My saliva testing in July showed very high serotonin levels with high cortisol levels. We adjusted some of the supplements. My repeat test, showed my serotonin being very low with a better cortisol level, so we readjusted some supplements again. I also have being using a natural progestrone cream for the past two months during days 14-28 of my cycle. It has helped my pms related symptoms, but I’m still being thrown for a loop during my period.
I do yoga, positive thinking, exercise, trying to lead a less stressful lifestyle but things are still not jiving. I swear I could have a PHD in anxiety management and disorders! That being said, I am having maybe 3-4 good-neutral days per month, and I just can’t do this anymore. My husband and family is so supportive but I miss being me! I feel like I am on an emotional rollercoaster and I never really know what I’m going to feel like next. I am at my wit’s end. I am only 27 years old and I would love to have more children, but cannot move forward with that until I straighten myself out. I am desperate for any suggestions you have or insight. I want my life back, my family wants me back!
Thank you in advance,
Heather
Hello Heather – I love the NeuroScience Inc. products. Are you on Adrecor?
Let’s get back to the progesterone cream. Most progesterone creams are effective for a short while – after a while they get absorbed by the fatty tissue and do not get into the cellular level.
The Progessence Plus Serum on my site is infused with essential oils that clear off the receptor sites clogged from synthetic hormones so that the progesterone can get to the cellular level. And you take it daily throughout your cycle. This maybe one reason you are falling off the cliff when you are getting your period. Most of us are so surrounded by estrogen mimickers… we really need to be taking progesterone all of the time. Anytime we are exposed to plastics, make up, household cleaning solvents, meats, even water (hormones are not filtered out of water- technology has not caught up with this one yet) we are getting too much estrogen.
You may also need more nutrients than what the NeuroScience products are providing.
I would strongly suggest getting some zinc. Zinc depletion can cause PMS anxiety etc.
Just the NeuroScience product alone is not going to make up for all of the nutrients you have lost during your pregnancies – or over your life time.
I would consider going to the health food store and getting a good quality whole food vitamin.
You may also have some digestive issues which prevents the supplements from being absorbed.
I know that the proprietary micronization process that Truehope uses ensure that their nutrients get into the body. This is crucial.
We can buy and take all the nutrients we need – but if the body is unable to digest them – it is all for no avail.
Of course detox is another option – and I have the Touchstone Essential Pure Body on my site too.
Have barely mentioned that here since I have been focusing on nutrients and progesterone.
But heavy metals, can also cause anxiety.
You may want to share this information with your naturopath.
Keep posting and sharing your thoughts.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
hi…m rashmi. m only 21 yrs old.
m suffering from ocd(obsessive compulsive disorder). i’ve tried my best to come out of it but always i find myself at d same place. for last 6 yrs m suffering from dis? my self confidence every part of my life is being affected….kindly help me . plz talk to me via my email.
Hi there,
I am 28 years old and have suffered from anxiety since around the time I started my period. My first panic attack was related to an MSG sensitivity but it was about the same age that I started my period. I never took birth control, but I did get pregnant at 16, had an abortion then got pregnant again 4 months later and kept her. Then when I was 20 I moved in with my boyfriend, got pregnant again and got married. This is when my anxiety started to really get bad. I had to quit my job because I would become numb with fear and feel like I was dying. Sometimes I wouldn’t even be able to stop to tell my boss I had to leave the cash register, I would just take off and go home without a word. I’ve lost every single job I’ve ever had due to anxiety issues.
Then in June of 2009 it got to the point where I cannot leave the house by myself. I have agoraphobia (my grandmother had it too and she didn’t leave the house for 15 years!) I have been able to take my kids to school around the block, but I am completely stricken with fear the entire time. I have started “couponing” and drag my husband to stores with me every week and it does help me to keep my mind distracted by organizing coupons, figuring out how much things will cost etc. And I am also able to make money doing it as well so I don’t feel like a complete good for nothing.
I pretty much just lay around all day long. I always feel sick or dizzy or anxious or something. Another issue I have is that I cannot take medicine. It is a phobia and I just can’t do it. I have not taken a tylenol or anything else (besides 2 round of antibiotics) in the last 10 years. I watched my dad have a severe allergic reaction and have not taken anything since.
I have always brought up to my drs, friends and family that I think my “conditions” are mainly brought on by m period. My whole life revolves around them! One week before I start feeling anxious, dizzy, tired, out of it. Immediately before I start my period, my body and face start burning and I normally go into a complete panic attack only to realize that while I was panicking, my period started. During my period I have cramps, a general yucky feeling, fatigue and yippee a 2-3 day migraine! The week after is more of the “anxiety…why did that happen, is it going to happen again, when is this going to end, etc” and still feeling a little “off” only to have about 1 week or less that I feel like a somewhat ‘normal’ person.
Wondering if you can clue me in on what foods I should be eating (to get the vitamins recommended since I can’t take any pills), how I should get my water if you say not to drink bottled water and that it’s in our water supply. And other things I can do to get out of this foggy, anxious, crappy life I’m living.
Thanks so much for your help!
HI, jen – You do need nutrients badly. And you maybe estrogen dominant with your menstrual headaches. Estrogen dominance can come from other sources other than birth control. I have posted about that many times here. But read this article: http://www.johnleemd.com/store/estrogen_dom.html. That can be resolved by taking natural progesterone daily with the Progessence Plus.
There are plenty of nutrients in a powder form. Have you been to your health food store? There are fortified protein shakes. I think Truehope also has a product that is not in a capsule. If I were suffering like you – I would break open their capsules and put them in water and get as many nutrients into my body as possible.
Give Truehope a call and see what they say.
I am not a nutritionist so I cannot tell you what to eat to get all your nutrients…but I will tell you this – it is hard for anyone to be getting the nutrients they need from the food we ingest today.
You do not have to live this way.
There is hope out there…. your posting here is a start.
You do not have to be a captive of your hormones.
Nutrition and hormone balancing are key.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
Hi, im 16 years old and for the past few years I have sudden anxiety/panic attacks. My parents saw a few while they happened and i can’t control my breathing, it come in very fast and i start hyperventilating and have to cover my mouth with my shirt or hand to stop the sudden air from going in. I also cry alot and my eyes swell and all this usually occurs after I think about events that have occurred in my life. I recently had this happen again last night and this is the first time i felt nauseous the entire day. I feel depressed and i thought i had these panic/anxiety attacks due to a traumatic event that happened in my life, i think its connected to that event. I’ll sit for at the least an hour going through this and crying and breathing like my lungs are about to explode and my head will hurt. i dont know if its hormones but im only 16… and lately my parents were kidding around when i got better that i have a mental condition which turns on every so months, i mean they werent serious but I do not want to be mental. So i found this article and it sounds like it applies to me…what do i do? plz email me back i appreciate it thank you.
Hello, Sana – Have you been to see a physician to rule out other medical possibilities? What type of birth control are you on – if any? Have you experienced a lot of trauma in your life?
You do not have a ‘mental’ condition – other than the fact that this is happening in your brain – and it is real – but it does not mean you are ‘mental’.
I would read through the posts and comments. You may very well need some good nutrients supplements. And Zinc. We are not getting enough minerals in our diets.
This is manageable.
Are your parents open to taking you to a naturopath or another health care practitioner?
The more research you can do the better.
You do not have to live like this and between nutrition and hormone balancing you can get back on track.
But since you are 16 and a minor you will have to educate your parents too.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie
I went to the doctor with dizziness and fullness in my ear and a little anxiety. He said there was a little fluid in my ear and prescribed Prednisone and Antivert. I went “nuts” after 4 days on the Prednisone. It has been 4 weeks and I still can’t sleep and have horrible anxiety to the point that I think I’m having a heart attack. I have been to my GP twice and have had an EKG and MRI. Both are ok. Prior to my first doctor visit, I was feeling depressed and very tired and having some mild anxiety. My GP prescribed an antidepressant, but I just can’t bring myself to take it. I’m currently waiting for bloodwork results to come back. I am 38, have a wonderful home and family. I have no mental reason for depression or anxiety. Is this hormones???
Danna – it could very well be hormones. Also at 38 you may be entering perimenopause where your hormones are shifting as well as diminishing. If you have read the posts here and my responses you are going to know what I recommend. Nutrition and natural progesterone to offset the estrogen dominance that is causing the depression and anxiety. If you do not take care of this now and nip it in the bud – it will only get worse and you will not be able to enjoy your beautiful home and family.
Sleep deprivation is hormone imbalance. Not getting sleep for extended periods of time can lead to other medical problems. The endocrine system is the body’s regulator – when it gets whacked – the entire body goes haywire. That is what you and all of these other women are experiencing.
You do not have to feel this way…. you can gain your vibrant health back.
Also get rid of every plastic cookware in your kitchen. DO NOT MICROWAVE IN PLASTIC. DO NOT DRINK OUT OF PLASTIC CONTAINERS…. all of these contain estrogen mimickers who can further cause the downward spiral of hormone imbalance.
Hormonally yours,
Leslie