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I've just met with my doctor about my weight gain. Last year about this time, I went into menopause. I stopped having my period, stopped sleeping through the night, lost a lot of hair, my skin went dry, I noticed patches of brown spots appearing on my face and hands, I lost my interest in intimacy with my husband, I forgot simple things like "why did I walk into this room again?", I was irritable, and I gained about 20 pounds! It was about this time that I read a book by Suzanne Somers called "Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness." She talked about using bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and in a rhythmic dosage rather than a static dosage. I talked to my doctor about it and she prescribed an estriol cream to be taken vaginally 1-2x per week as needed, and a progesterone cream to be taken for two weeks on and two weeks off. She also prescribed melatonin and 5htp to help me sleep. I'd also read about L-Arginine to help with hot flashes. Those things helped but didn't fully alleviate my symptoms so I kept doing research on menopause and it's symptoms. I found a method of dosage and delivery for bio-identical hormone replacement therapy called The Wiley Protocol and asked my doctor about it. She had JUST heard about it herself. So, we agreed to embark on the adventure of trying it to help me. So far it's worked to alleviate all of my symptoms with the exception of my WEIGHT! ARg.
So, I went through the same steps of research and found a hormone called HCG for weight loss, did my homework and learned that my own doctor prescribes it! Thus, starting tomorrow, I will be injecting myself with this hormone that is only produced by pregnant women. Ironically, two other women in my office are also starting this very weight loss plan this week. I'm just looking for others online who have had experience with this and what they have to say about it.
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The weight loss is more than likely what led to the lessening of menopausal symptoms.. not the HCG. When you complete this round, you owe it to yourself to work on all the reason you gained the weight in the first place or you are likely to gain it all back. Every patient who has come to our office having lost weight with HCG has gained it all back because they didn't do just that. Weight is a result.
January 22, 2015 - 1:35pmThis Comment
I was on hcg for 45 days in May/June and it is now November 2015. I lost 23 lbs and have had no issues keeping it off. I get on the scale daily and if I go up two pounds I correct it right away by eating clean and a few extra apples. You need to change your mindset. I think about everything I put into my mouth now. I try to eat clean and make my own food with no salt, organic no gmo lean meats. Less cheese and bread. My menopause symptoms just came back :( they stayed away 6 months. I am going to be 50 and had been unable to lose 1 lb even after going to a gym almost daily for a year prior to the hcg. I actually managed to build myself wider going to the gym. I did the treadmill, the elliptical and the Biggest loser track in rotation. The BEST part of the hcg was losing my thighs/leg fat.
November 3, 2015 - 7:09amThis Comment
That is not necessarily true. My hot flashes stopped cold turkey the day of my third shot, and the first two days were load days.
January 22, 2015 - 6:38pmThis Comment
Im 48 and i have been without my period for 1 yr and 5 months now. I have horrible hot flashes at night, hair & memory loss, and the worst! WIGHT GAIN, I have gained about 30 pounds since no period, i went on the HCG (injectable) diet 2 yrs. ago for about 40 days, I did the protocol to the T! and I only lost 7-10 pounds as i recall, I was so disappointed! flash forward to today, Still gaining weight, after exercising, diet, etc, still have hot flashes etc. I was thinking on doing the diet once more, and also I wanted to try to buy estriol and progesterone creams to use. But I was wondering if it could still use the creams while on the diet?
January 8, 2015 - 6:36amThis Comment
I hit a plateau after losing 20 lbs and did not budge for 3 weeks and went off the hcg because it was too expensive not to see any more results. I know they say not to exercise. I think my problem was went on vacation to Las Vegas the second week I was on the hcg and while there we were "on the go" from 8 am till 2-3 am. Swimming, walking, sight-seeing. I think my body got used to that amount of physical movement along with the 500 calorie diet and then didn't respond as well after that :( My doctor said she had never seen anyone truly plateau the way I did.
November 3, 2015 - 7:13amThis Comment
Ask the physician who prescribing your the cream. If you aren't being monitored by a physician... find one.
January 22, 2015 - 1:31pmThis Comment
Every patient who has come to our office having used HCG has gained all their weight back. Your hot flashes are not about progesterone, they are about low estrogen. Find yourself a good doctor to do a total hormone work up on you. Stop trying to fix everything with progesterone cream (can even cause weight gain). Your issues are multifactorial, menopause etc.
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I did the HCG diet for 30 days and lost 25 pounds. I didn't follow protocol after finishing the shots and gained 7 lbs. back. I was having many hot flashes, sleep issues and headaches that went away immediately upon starting the injections in June 2014 , These symptoms are just beginning to return and it is October 23rd. I am going to do another round soon as I thought that the diet was very successful for me, hormones caused me to gain the weight and, I figured hormones might reset my metabolism.
October 23, 2014 - 1:20pmThis Comment
To have the HCG diet be successful you Must follow the maintenance program to reset your metabolism. There are a lot of differnt eating theories on the diet but I strongly suggest you follow Dr Simons manuscript. You can find this on line.
February 15, 2015 - 11:49pmThis Comment
At 47 I had been suffering for about 2 years with hot flashes and was on Elestrin for them. It reduced the hot flashes by about 50%, but I went from 130 lbs. to 150 lbs. during those two years. I noticed my stomach was sticking out to. I tried to lose the weight with no luck, so I tried the HCG diet. I week or two into the diet, I noticed my hot flashes stopped! Before I concluded the HCG diet I had begun taking black cohosh in the hopes the hot flashes would not return. All toghether I had 4 GLORIOUS months of no hot flashes. About a month ago they returned with a vengance. Back on Elestrin. If I start gaining weight again I'm going on HCG again while I'm trying to find relief for these hot flashes.
August 16, 2014 - 4:28pmThis Comment