Dianne,
I would recommend that everyone have the genetic testing done for Factor V Leiden before HRT, it is a simple blood test. I am heterozygeous, which means I inherited one gene and the lower risk. My risk for a clot is twice the normal population. Also only 10% of this population clots, which is in my favor. I am doing things to prevent a clot like exercise. staying hydrated and awareness. What is working against me is the fact that my maternal grandmother, mother and maternal aunt have all clotted. Both my children have inherited this.
I took the soy and cohosh for about a year and stopped in early 2007. I have recently had 2 incidents of post menopausal bleeding (May/July). I had that evaluated and they could not find a cause, at least it wasn't hyperpasia or neopasia. I finally got my doctor to state this: "post menopausal bleeding from an unknown hormonal imbalance." My theory is that it is related to my cholesterol. This summer my doctor got to aggressive in lowering my cholesterol and it dropped my total cholesterol to 105. The next week I went hormonal, stopped sleeping and was depressed. Three days after stopping the Vytorin, I was a normal person again. My hormone levels also dropped from postmenopausal levels to perimenopausal levels. I had my levels tested 2 months later and there are back to post menopausal levels. I have had a series of health issues all arise this summer and are all related to cholesterol in one way or another.
Now you may be asking how is cholesterol related to menopause? Chloesterol is the basic building block for all your hormones.It is also necessary for proper functioning of your brain. When my cholesterol, which I suspect had dropped into the double digits, dropped so low it upset the natural production of my bodily hormones. Cholesterol is a very interesting topic and very essential part of our proper health, not the evil thing the pharmacutical companies would have you think.
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Dianne,
I would recommend that everyone have the genetic testing done for Factor V Leiden before HRT, it is a simple blood test. I am heterozygeous, which means I inherited one gene and the lower risk. My risk for a clot is twice the normal population. Also only 10% of this population clots, which is in my favor. I am doing things to prevent a clot like exercise. staying hydrated and awareness. What is working against me is the fact that my maternal grandmother, mother and maternal aunt have all clotted. Both my children have inherited this.
I took the soy and cohosh for about a year and stopped in early 2007. I have recently had 2 incidents of post menopausal bleeding (May/July). I had that evaluated and they could not find a cause, at least it wasn't hyperpasia or neopasia. I finally got my doctor to state this: "post menopausal bleeding from an unknown hormonal imbalance." My theory is that it is related to my cholesterol. This summer my doctor got to aggressive in lowering my cholesterol and it dropped my total cholesterol to 105. The next week I went hormonal, stopped sleeping and was depressed. Three days after stopping the Vytorin, I was a normal person again. My hormone levels also dropped from postmenopausal levels to perimenopausal levels. I had my levels tested 2 months later and there are back to post menopausal levels. I have had a series of health issues all arise this summer and are all related to cholesterol in one way or another.
Now you may be asking how is cholesterol related to menopause? Chloesterol is the basic building block for all your hormones.It is also necessary for proper functioning of your brain. When my cholesterol, which I suspect had dropped into the double digits, dropped so low it upset the natural production of my bodily hormones. Cholesterol is a very interesting topic and very essential part of our proper health, not the evil thing the pharmacutical companies would have you think.
Reta
October 9, 2009 - 10:32amThis Comment
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