Why am I writing this? Read.
My girlfriend has been on birth control since she was 17, recently (at 26) she has been having 2 periods per month. She was told the birth control pills she was taking just needed to be changed because they didn't "work" with her anymore. She did this 3 times, no luck.
We got some blood work done & 2 GYN docs out here in Las Vegas said she was fine. Still wanting some reassurance we contacted a fertility center in San Francisco. Her FSH level (11-12) was at the level of a 40 year old.
Basically, the follicles in her ovaries responsible for producing / releasing eggs were going bad (eg, getting she was on her way to becoming sterile).
We then went to a fertility center here in Vegas where they gave her different birth control pills and were on the way to preparing her for an extraction & freezing of eggs. Mind you we didn't want to have kids now, but we did want to when we were ready.
After about $4,500 spent at the fertility center here alone doing SO many tests, etc... I decided to see a natural hormone specialist named Dr. Uzzi Reiss in LA.
He clearly explained what no other doctors even bothered to (or probably didn't even know). Birth control pills are basically forms of castration for women & the hormones lost are replaced with synthetic hormones that carry all sorts of side effects.
Her bodies own natural hormones were completely suppressed. When she stopped the pills her hormones weren't even detectable in standard blood tests.
Shortly after this test, Dr. Reiss prescribed her a natural hormone protocol. As of today her FSH level has stabilized (5). Not to mention she said she feels better than she has in 10 years... better than she can ever remember in her life... like a person.
Why am I writing this? Because I think it is very important that everyone here (men & women) NEVER believe what a doctor tells you. Do your own research.
2 doctors here said she was fine
2 "specialists" suggested she freeze her eggs because she was on her way to becoming sterile.
1 doctor said, this is what is happening in your body because of what you're taking. Stop.
So far I've referred my girlfriend, her mother, my mother & my sister to Dr. Reiss because hormone therapy does much more than help with fertility. All of their progress has been positive. They feel younger, better, have been able to stop taking other medications like prozac, evista (for bone loss), migraine medications, etc, etc.
I don't work for this guy, with this guy or anything. I just felt the need to share one of my experiences with him. He is one of the few docs that actually know what they're doing.
He's written some books that I think all women should read:
1.
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Hormon...d_bxgy_b_img_b (50 reviews, 5 stars)
2.
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Superw...8245932&sr=8-2 (his latest)
That was all
