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Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment? From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net) Wed Jul 28 19:17:55 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Reply: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Haven't you ever been tempted just to let people know that if you truly want "natural" then let the aging process proceed naturally. Don't try to treat Alzheimer's or ease arthritis. If you want "natural" then let's allow disease processes to take their "natural" course without interference. I've been tempted but have managed to bite my tongue. However, if one more person comes in to assert that medication X caused their weight gain..... :^) ************************************************************************ **** Charlie Chambers -- Hood River, OR cchamber@alumni.rice.edu "Almost anything you do will seem insignificant but it is very important that you do it....You must be the change you wish to see in the world" -- Mahatma Ghandi. ************************************************************************ ******* On Jul 28, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote: > I think it is just a great gimmick the marketers have put for for the > baby boomers into all this "if it is natural it must be better" thing. > > I spend a good bit of time teaching the patient about the hormonal > cycle > - with different levels every day - so any measurement is only that > point in time - and says nothing about where she is with regards to > menopause. Then there is the time spent on estradiol is estradiol - > and > do you want it from a place that has to keep detailed records on > production etc etc and quality control. > > But .. having said all that .. many are so anti-doctor and anything > else must be better -- that they are willing to pay big big big bucks. > > Joanne > > At Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Richard Chudacoff, MD wrote: >> >> I'll tell you a true story. I just spent time with someone who treats >> hormone deficiency and sexual dysfunction. A patient wanted to be on >> Bio-identical HRT. She was on Climera patches. She was switched to the >> bio-identical estradiol patch, Vivelle. Estradiol to estradiol. Paid >> cash >> for the honor of being switched. This bio-identical deal is the >> biggest >> gimmick, least meritous medical movement I have ever seen, and >> patients are >> paying cash for it. It must be a blond thing. >> >> -- >> Richard Chudacoff, MD >> > > -- > Joanne Bulley, MD > Keene, NH, USA > Next message: Richard Chudacoff, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Next in thread: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?" Reply: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Anyone doing saliva hormone levels? Bio-identical hormone treatment?"

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