Progress Your Health Podcast

Staci’s Question:  Hello, Dr. D, I was on Biest, 80:20 ratio. One mg/mL. I take one click, which is a quarter gram per day. I have been taking that for two and a half months to come about sleep disturbances, low libido, and hot flushes. I also take 100 mg of progesterone capsules at night. After the two and a half months, my breasts were so dense, tender and sore that I had to stop, to get some of the estrogen out of my body. I still get my period intermittently, so I don’t think I’m quite finished going through menopause yet. Should I lower my Biest dose or take it every other day? The hormones do alleviate my symptoms. It’s just that, eventually, it seems to be too strong. Short Answer:  For a woman, it is a tough situation to be experiencing hot flashes, but still be mensturating at the same time. When a woman is still mensturating, she is not an ideal canidate for bioidentical estrogen. The fact that a woman is have a cycle means that she is still producing enough of her own estrogen, so taking an exogeno