Madame Athena Chang (executive director of Courageous Conversation Global, Woodland Hills, CA) gives a first-person testimonial about her multi-year relationship with Sayana Medical Care (Dr. Sayana). She describes preferring holistic, personalized care since 2016, experienced a severe perimenopausal episode with insomnia, sleep anxiety, and hot flashes in October (year unstated), reconnected with the clinic, and reports markedly improved physical, mental, and emotional health. She contrasts her positive, attentive care and follow-up with peers who lack similar support and notes she travels between Costa Rica and California to receive care.
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My name is Madame Athena Chang. I'm the executive director of Courageous Conversation Global foundation and I'm located in Woodland Hills, California. So I've been with Cyana for a while, since 2016 and previously I was working directly with a naturopath who ended up leaving the country. And so I was in search of. After having that type of care in terms of how in depth and personal it is, I couldn't go back to just a traditional way of dealing with my health. I always lean towards more of a holistic care. So after I was recommended by a work colleague to use Dr. Siana because she had been with them for a while and after I went to the first visit, from then on it's been hard to be with Anyone other than Dr. Siena Siena Medical Care, Healing and knowing your health team truly cares about you as a person. I always say I don't think I could go any other way than having the sort of stellar care that I experienced and have experienced with Cyana all of these years. Last October, I hit a different space in my perimenopausal journey with severe insomnia coupled with sleep anxiety. I was experiencing severe hot flashes and just really out of al when these symptoms cropped up, I was like, okay, it was time to reconnect back. I knew about perimenopausal symptoms and what could come with them and so I knew that was what was happening with me. And so I reconnected back last October. The difference with where I was then and now, it's night and day trust 100% as you decide on what's the best route. Having Dr. Cyana and her team by my side has made all of the difference. I feel incredible just where I'm at and that when I say incredible, that's physically, mentally, emotionally as I walk down this journey and I remember when it hit me in October, there was a lot of fear like what's happening with me and am I going to ever go back to feeling fantastic again? And to tell you the truth, I feel better than I did before. Before the symptoms came on in such a full fledged way. I remembered what it felt like to be top of my game in terms of my health, where I must have been functioning in a space where I wasn't at that optimal level. And as I come closer to it, I definitely now notice what it feels like to feel great. Because sometimes not feeling fantastic can become normalized to forget what it is to feel fantastic. So as I watch my loved ones really have challenges with the support team that they have and especially my friends because of my age group so many people are going through the menopausal transition and I see the difference between my care, my increased knowledge and understanding. I always tell my friends and family if I don't reach out to the Cyana team they reach out to me to check up on me and just how different the journey has been for my loved ones who don't have this sort of care. I want this care for everyone. I wish that it was affordable for everyone because this is what real care looks like outside of just the health information that you're getting, the health support, the expertise. It's also the warmth and presence I used to a long time ago fair working with Doctors, working with Dr. Siana and her team has changed my relationship where I actually look forward to my doctor's visits where I used to fare my doctor's visits and again I'm traveling between Costa Rica and California and I come into California so that I can do my care here with the Cyana team.
