Wait....did you say Menopause?

As you know I have been having quite a few issues, if not you can read about those here.  I went back to my doctor to get all the results from my Salvia test and blood work last Thursday. As nervous as I was to find out what was going on I was excited to get the results that way we could get them all straightened out.
I was in complete shock at what I heard. Let me go back to last August when I went in for my yearly and as I told her the issues I was having she said that it could be that I was premenopausal and if I kept having issues I would need to come back and we would go from there. So little did I know that when I went to All Seasons appointment it would in fact turn out that my Gyno was right.
She sat me down in her office and she started with the salvia test first. Not only did my results state that I was menopausal it also showed that my Progesterone was really low. Makes sense after seeing all the symptoms of low progesterone. My estrogen and testosterone were not in balance and if these two are not in balance then they will not work properly. Then she moves on to my blood work and it showed that my Vitamin D was severally low. Normal range was 750-1100 and mine was 30. Also my B12 was low and needed to be put back into the normal range. Then the not so shocker occurred and said that my Glucose test was high and she wanted to retest and do one that shows 3 months back. I'm not surprised I've struggled with this ever since my second pregnancy when I had gestational diabetes.

She then moved on to the plan of care:

I will be using the hormone creams, a B12 shot once a week for 10 weeks, a Vitamin D shot once a month for 6 months, B12 tablet once a day, and Vitamin D3 tablet daily. I go back in 8 weeks and if it is working then we will stick to this plan of treatment and if not we will change it up according to my symptoms that are left. I will get the results of my glucose retest next week.

 

I share this not only because I'm overly open but to show some of you that just because we are women doesn't mean that we should feel this way and it is not normal. NO it is not normal! Look up and do a little research on these hormones, vitamin D, B12 all of these things and you might be surprised at what you find. I didn't even know or realize that Vitamin D was important. Also if you are struggling through infertility you may want to take a good look at your hormones. Luckily I have my all my baby making out of the way but as of right now even if I wanted to have another baby I couldn't due to my hormones. I had no clue that hormones could effect it. I've also heard testimonies of this. A lady I know said that was her only way of getting pregnant was to go in get her hormones checked and right then she got pregnant easily so then she had to repeat 3 more times of going in she now has 4 beautiful children.

On my way to getting back to Normal

 

As women I know I always thought if and when we have hormone
issues we just have to suck it up due to being just that...Women.
But I was very wrong.

As you might or might not know over the last year I haven been experiencing these crazy hormone effects and didn't know it. It started last March when I started having bad acne and at 31 years old I was like what in the hell? I have never had any acne trouble as a teen so why now? I haven't changed any makeup of face wash so what is going on? I went to an esthetician to see what she thought it could be? We did a few different facial options and it would help but within a month it was right back. I knew I couldn't keep spending the money every month for pricey facials, chemical peels, and treatments. I made an appointment with a dermatologist and she couldn't figure it out and said sometimes you can develop adult acne. She gave me a prescription for some cream to use each night and if that didn't help she could put me on medicine. The cream worked and it cleared up my face and so I thought it was adult acne and now we got it under control.

I was also so tired but at night I could not sleep, I am a planner and very OCD at it too could get remember things and would just fly by the seat of my pants so to speak. I could care less if I wrote it down or not. When it comes I will worry with it then. I am a very what you see is what you get kind of girl but for the most part I was always polite. I am a people please to say the least but that changed also and I could care less what you thought or what I said to you, put on your big girl panties and deal with it. You asked and I told you and sometimes you didn't ask and I still told you. I started to loose the lac to tolerate stupid and would fly off the handle very easily. My mom was in town staying with me and we were ordering at sonic and we gave the lady our order and I said that's all please....she replied would you like a 99 cent shake its on special today...I lost it...NO I don't want a shake if I wanted a 99 cent shake I would of told you when I ordered. Just small stuff like that would get to me. My mom then decided to tell me that she has seen a change in me and if anything was going on. Nope I replied why? I honestly was like what is she talking about? I really didn't see it until now. I was tired because I couldn't sleep, I was all kinds of crazy, my period didn't know if it wanted to come or go, I was moody, no patience, anxious, had no energy after lunch time, my skin has turned from oily to dry even my lady part (TMI sorry) also my face turned into a teenager, then the thing that sent me to a whole another world and made me see the light.....my HAIR 

 My hair is my thing I don't know how to describe it but some people love pedicures, purses, shoes, clothes, I love these all but my hair comes first and foremost. It is the slowest growing thing I know. It took me years to grow it out. All of a sudden it started to break off in random spots and I also going bald in the back of my heard where my crown was. I bleach and color my hair since I was 15 and it had never done this. When I worked at a hair salon in high school we would do a new color or bleach it once a week so what the hell? I bought all kinds of deep condition treatments I was already taking Biotin. It just kept getting worse and eventually my bangs where no lie half an inch long and the right side of my head on the top layer was breaking off that length as well. Ok now it is time to do something. I went back to my Gyno to see if she would run some tests and figure out what the crap is wrong with me. She said it looks like I was pre-menopausal. She explained although it could happen and does this young she just didn't want to write it off as that until I had more tests done. She suggested that I go to a hormone specialists and go from there. I didn't really know what to think as she has already put me on Estrogen last year when I was having my face problems and I quit because nothing happed after 4 months. I went ahead a made the call because it couldn't hurt. When I made the call to All Seasons I was surprised they were able to get me an apt in 3 weeks. I went to see them and was surprised as to what I found out. All the craziness that was going on was to due with my hormones and she seemed to think that my hair was a Thyroid issue. She also caught several other things that I didn't know it was a problem just thought it was part of being a woman. She told me she would like to do some blood work to check my Thyroids and also for a Vitamin D deficiency. Why would I have that I've always had an olive skin tone and tan easy and loves the sun. She enlighten me that some people need more than others and actually tan skinned people have a harder time getting it through the time due to tan skin harder to go into as to light skin can go straight into. Hmm learn something new everyday. Then I was told that I also need to due a salvia test for my hormones.

 I had to fill a tube full of spit 19 days after my cycle.
It was then sent off to the lab and I go back for the results on June 25th



She explained to me that a woman's hormones is like a marble sitting on a see saw in order for them to properly work right they needed to be all balance it would work if all were good but one was off and to think of it what it is...you life....When you hormones are balance so is you life. Just talking with her and learning about hormones and how they work and what they do and treatment afterwards has excited me.
I cant wait to go back and get the results. I know I am so over all of this that's going on and I want my see saw back balanced.

 
I encourage you to look up hormones and all the different ones and look at signs and symptoms you will most likely be surprised to find out that your hormones are not balanced either and instead of feeling like a running chicken with your head cut off you can to get back to normal. 
They have came along way with the treatments now, no more creams that are sticky.

Getting Old Sucks

I turned 30 and my body turned into a person I didn't know. My blood pressure went up my hormones were imbalance and my face turned into a 13 year old. I had never had acne or any face problems when I was growing up so this was so new to me and I had no clue what to do.
I made an appointment with my Female doctor and she did blood work and it revealed that my estrogen was non existent so she put me on Estrogen and said my face could be related to my hormones but after 2 weeks if it didn't start to clear up to go see a dermatologists. Just my luck my hormones are straighten out but my face isn't even starting to clear up so I made an appointment with a dermatologist and they couldn't see me until and a month and I'm sick of this face and have to do something now. I knew that at Spa Nouvelle had a variety of facials so I looked them up and saw a Deep Pore Cleanse and I called and made an appointment. I got to my appointment and Wendy my lady who did my face looked at it and said that she would recommend doing a microdermabrasion and a chemical peel and it would make my face start to clear up and then do another one in a month and then I could start doing deep pore cleanse after it started clearing up. I am so desperate so I agreed and now so glad I did. First she had to extract my pores and I have never had this done before and oh my it was a SOB. Then the next step was the microdermabrasion  after that was she started the chemical peel. The chemical peel didn't faze me because the extractions were so painful this was a breeze. She also gave me a fan to help with the burning so I didn't feel anything. After the treatments were over she told me to use sunscreen with zinc because that controls oil.  She also gave me a few samples of a tinted sunscreen with zinc to try.

I wish I would have took before pictures because I have had people tell me that they can see results and I can too. Its only been 2 days. Here are a few pics I found online.



Here is a video I found to show you what to expect and what it looks like getting it done



I am loving the results after this one treatment and I will keep you posted and continue to let  you know how it is doing and if I will need the second treatment or not. If you are having any face issues I highly suggest getting this done.