Moongoddess40 -> RE: Low Sex Drive (3/25/2008 7:50:57 AM)
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You have gotten some great replies here....as for what your doctor, an endo, or gyno, considers within normal range, is the great misunderstanding in womens health. They are holding you to a level within the "norm". Thing is, everyone is different,.....what is normal for you may not be for another women. It's fine tuning you, that matters. Did you know that unbalanced hormones lead to depression in women? We have had to educate ourselves in this country. Europeans have been on bioidental hormones for a while, plant derived, holistic. Here in the good ol' USA , it can't be patented, so no money to be made for the big drug companies~! Therefore the FDA will not approve for doctors to get with it, and they would rather have their reps make visits with their latest pills. As for PCOS, if you are an over weight women, you are producing more estrogen then you need.,Fat stores and produces it, then making you estrogen dominant, and guess what that does? It cancels out your Testosterone. You need to have some of this for a sex drive period. Excess weight also produces too much insulin, taxing the pancreas, insulin is such an important hormone, ..never mind what it can do to your thyroid. You may not have proper insurance, but, you can read, research, so when you go into a doctor he won't give you a band aide. At your age you should be in your prime. Moon
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