Dr. Tabatha Barber describes severe mood deterioration she traced to low estrogen and her recovery after using an estrogen patch. She experimented with dosages from 0.025 mg up to 2.075 mg and felt dramatically better the same day. She urges women to push back against dismissive doctors and work with qualified practitioners on hormone replacement.
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We always tell women low estrogen is just hot flashes and night sweats and a little bit of mood swings. But I'm here to tell you it can be severe mood swings to the point where any doctor would hand you an antidepressant prescription and that is not what you need. So it was amazing to me that I got myself some estrogen. I got an estrogen patch, 0.05 milligrams. I cut it in half because I'm still nervous about my history of estrogen dominance. And I took 0.025 milligram patch. And within that same day of putting it on, I stopped hating my life. I wanted to talk to my husband again. I got off the couch, I added the other half of the patch. So I was up to.05 milligrams and I started to feel like myself again. I wasn't depressed. I was talking again. I was interested in life. And I bumped it up again. I added another half of a patch, 2.075 milligrams, and I feel like myself again. It was the most eye opening experience that I have had and it, I just needed to share it with all of you because it is clear to me that our hormones are what drive us and keep us healthy and happy and who we are. And the fact that mine just tanked overnight and I didn't recognize myself as a person and didn't recognize myself wanting the life that I had, like, that was really scary. And so I want you to know if you have had those feelings, if you're currently going through those feelings, you are not alone. You are not depressed, you are not crazy. You have a hormone issue. And so please, please, please, please don't let conventional medicine disregard you, blow you off, tell you it's just menopause and get over it. You' older get over it. You deserve to feel like yourself. You deserve to be able to function like you always, you know, did in the past. And so I just, I can't advocate for women any harder than I am. We need our hormones and we need to make sure that we're being heard. So I hear you, I feel you. I promise. You know, I, I'm going through this with you, so I know what's up. And I know that there's a good and a safe way to replace hormones. And then there is a not so safe way to, to replace hormones. So find a practitioner who knows what they're doing and can help you feel better. Because I promise you can, you can feel like your amazing.
