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68. SOLO My big health kerfuffle (and why I'm not on HRT - yet)

April 02, 2023 Ann Marie McQueen Episode 68
The Hotflash inc podcast
68. SOLO My big health kerfuffle (and why I'm not on HRT - yet)
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A special episode in which I talk all about being beset with a variety of health problems that could spell trouble, and how that made me feel, and what I was finally able to do about it. 

This is a podcast for anyone who is trying to get help but is tired, sick and down, or for someone who wants to avoid feeling that way. 

It's about getting help, making it through, and finally deciding that enough is enough, and you are going to truly do what you have to so you can heal and move forward. 

Also, my perennial search for a doctor who will help me find some damn HRT continues. 

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is this not a time when we are forced, forced to get this stuff organized so that we can move into the rest of our lives in health. Hi there. I'm Annemarie McQueen, a menopause in midlife journalist. I have 25 years of experience covering science health, and. And I created hot flashing to inform, inspire, and entertain people who go through pairing menopause and menopause, and the people who care about them. This podcast brings you interviews with scientists, doctors, practitioners, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and more. In the end, our menopause experience is about so much more than ours. Symptoms. I think it's a total and complete mind, body, and soul shift. It's taking radical responsibility for every single part of our lives. It's becoming who we were born to be. It's nothing short of a hero's journey, and I am here walking the path right beside you. We're gonna have fun. Hi there. I'm recording this podcast while going live on TikTok, which is, kind of interesting because I feel like there's a couple of people staring at me from the side, but I. Why not? Like everyone else records themselves talking into a microphone and uses it for social media content. So why shouldn't I? I've wanted to do this podcast for a long time. I have a lot of great interviews coming up for you guys and it's gonna start next week, and it's just a series of experts and really interesting people and we're talking about mind, body, soul, and it's all gonna happen. So I'm really excited about that. I wanted to talk about, health and me and what's going on. I hesitate to do this because, you know, I, I don't wanna be one of those people who's super, like, it's boring talking about your health, you know what I mean? It's boring hearing about people's health. But the thing is, in our perimenopause, we are so vulnerable to every other thing and what. Can't get over is how that has been played out in my own life in the last two years, I literally have had so many different health problems that I can't even describe it. I didn't want to realize this was happening because I'm a health journalist. I spent a ton of my time being healthy, and I just really didn't wanna be the person who, who had a lot of health problems, but it turns. Then I found out in the last six weeks that I am that person. I, I did have like a range of health problems and none of them are life threatening and I, I feel like I'm really, really lucky. A bunch of stuff happened that I just can no longer ignore and I had to completely change my life and I had already changed my life a lot cuz I wasn't feeling very well and I thought it was perimenopause. I at this point, you know, turning 53 soon, don't know what's perimenopause and what's my health, but I do know that I've been tackling this for the last month and I feel a lot better. And I'd say a lot of it has to do with what's been going on. So let me start at the beginning and I'll try to be succinct. I had surgery in the fall of 2020 and I had to take antibiotics before and after. When I woke up from the surgery, I was very angry to find out I'd been given antibiotics during. I just know that I've had gut issues for years, and I know your gut's really vulnerable in surgery. I didn't want to get something like C difficile, and so I basically, I remember waking up from that surgery and just going like, oh God, ugh, you know? But. I, I, what was I gonna do? So a couple months later, I start feeling really terrible. I feel terrible when I eat. You know? I always eat very, I'm a very healthy person. I really like eating organic food. I lost my mom when I was 27, when she was 53. I'm very, very careful. She had cancer. I paid attention to everything I've been cooking with coconut oil. You know, 2010, I don't use seed oils. I was eating really well. I know how my gut feels when I don't eat well, but I was feeling really gross and I started to think, this is what everyone's talking about with perimenopause. Like, I thought I had symptoms, but whoa, I can barely function. Sometimes two, three days, I would be so tired I had to work, lying down. I couldn't think, I couldn't organize myself. I had a very low. And I went on like that for like, you know, probably eight or nine months. And because I was 50, I decided that I needed a colonoscopy. And when I was at the gastroenterologist, I told him how I was feeling and he started to think, I think you have sibo. And he asked me some things about my habits and it turns out I did have Small intestine bacterial overgrowth, sibo. And he also at that time, tested me and I turns out I had fatty. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This was embarrassing because why do I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease? That's when you, you know, standard American diet, processed food, sugar, and inactivity. This is not me. My cat was upset about it too. This is not a professional podcast situation. Anyway. I have both those things and, I don't go for the colonoscopy. He prescribes me antibiotics. They don't work. Then I had a huge life stress while I was doing a sort of a natural thing with antimicrobials that didn't work. So six, seven months go by and I still have this SIBO and I'm trying to eat the low FODMAP diet, which is what you have placebo. I couldn't understand that diet all at all. So now it we're in the spring of 2021 and I just decide that I. Tackle this. I have a functional me functional medicine specialist. He prescribes me a powdery drink that I drink for eight days, but I actually drank it for two weeks because I really wanted to tackle this antimicrobials, support with supplements and the horrible experience of. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth is the wrong kind of bugs in the wrong place. And when those die off, it is a bit like heroin withdrawal. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I've never been so depressed. I've never been so low. I ended up going on a hiking trip to Turkey. I was like a hundred percent different person. Last 20 pounds felt amazing. Like everything was working perfectly on my body in a way it hadn't for a long time. And I just felt like on top of the world, a little bit tricky to. Hike after that amount of time, not eating and on a liquid diet. But after the first couple days, I got it going. I came back, had a good couple of months, really felt good. All the brain fog, all the fatigue, all the stomach upset, everything I'd felt from the SIBO was gone and I was on the top of the world. I went home to, I had a booster shot of my Sino farm vaccine. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, I'm laying it out there. I went home to Canada for my summer vacation. Three weeks, had a weekend at a cottage. I'm, you know, I'm being careful with my food, but I'm like drinking beer and I'm just living it up. Came back from that, took my brother to Nashville. We had a great weekend for his 50th. Around the end of that weekend, I start feeling really gross again. And you know, I was drinking beer and I was eating all sorts of food and I never really felt better again after that. And when I came, you know, back, I'm feeling really bad. I'm in, I'm in Abu Dhabi. I don't know what's not working, but I have low mood and I'm tired in a different way. Like, I'm waking up in the morning, I can't work all day. Some days I couldn't do anything but just lay. I'm having trouble going for a walk. Like my brain is not working. I'm working every weekend cuz I can barely work. I don't know how someone could work like this. I went for a walk one day and I was so tired. I had to go to the park, across the road and lay down. Under a tree because I was so tired I couldn't function and have a little nap and then walk home. It was something else and it was not a fun life. I was having. A really, really, really hard time. In October, I just quit drinking because I was like, I cannot deal with this. Alcohol's making everything worse. I wasn't drinking much anyway, but, so I'm not drinking. I'm trying to do everything. It's not like Sibos back. It's not like the same foods were bothering me. Like Sibos a weird thing where, The foods that seem healthy can really bother you, but it's really, it's just really, really not going well. And my mood is terribly low. And, so my body is like in terrible pain, low mood, terrible fatigue. Can't think, can't organize. Uh, and the IBS I've had for years is back and I'm just general. At the end of my tether. So around January of this year, I drag myself for doctor's appointments. It's taking a herculean effort. It's so depressing. And I already knew I had thyroid nodules. I already knew that I had a fatty liver. I already knew that I'd had a colonoscopy. I'd already knew that I'd had SIBO and I knew I had an adrenal lesion. I knew I had those things. I went back to the endocrinologist. He got mad at me cuz I didn't. Adrenal lesion followed up, but that was fine. At this point I don't have anyone but the doctor's at the hospital, and I'm going between them all, and they're just treating me like some organs. You know, I found out the thyroid nodules are are fine. A friend says, why don't you get tested for thyroid antibodies? Maybe you have hashimo. So I bully the jerk of an endocrinologist into testing me for thyroid antibodies. He tells me that I have a low thyroid. I had it when I was last there. I've had it for a year and a half. He never ever told me that. I swear to you, I've been walking around with a low thyroid. The gastroenterologist after my colonoscopy tells me, I think you didn't have IBS when you were young. I think you, it was actually Crohn's and you're burning it off with. I'm like, what? My fatty liver is worse. It turns out. I do have thyroid antibodies. I have, blood sugar issues my fasting blood sugar is in a pre-diabetic range. The three month isn't, my cholesterol's off. The fatty liver's worse. I'm just like, what is going on? And I'm trying to get information from, like, I've met all these people on Hot Flash Inc. Who are experts. I'm asking them, I talked to a dietician, she offered to help me. Barbie bowls from the cognition dietician. She says she's helped people heal the fatty liver. You know, the gastroenterologist is telling me I've gotta workout six days a week at doing. When I have no energy for the first time in my life. I can barely exercise. I can barely do anything. And he's treating me like I am. I have the worst diet ever. And, and, and I don't like, I wanna scream at him. I don't have this, I've got thyroid antibodies, I can't. I can't deal with anything. I can't work several days a week. I'm barely functioning. My life is getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. I'm not making any social plans because I never feel like going anywhere. You know? One Saturday night I went for dinner at my friend's house. I was so tired. Saturday night, dragging myself down there. I only wore a sweatshirt and track pants. I literally couldn't get in her building and I. Felt like crying. And while I was there, all we had was sushi and Adam, mommy and I came home and threw up. I felt so sick from I don't know. And I, and the 20 pounds I lost the year before is right back on, and I'm not eating barely anything. Like I've got 20 pounds of just, and even more around my middle that I. Deserve. I'm not eating that food. Yes, I'm not moving much, but I'm not eating cuz I don't feel well. So I was really at the end of my tether, not knowing what to do in, in all this. I tried to make an appointment with this naturopathic doctor who had helped me years before with adrenal exhaustion. I thought she'll be able to help me. I drove down to Vitus here. Would you believe it? She canceled the appointment when I was outside the clinic. Fredo first she said she was gonna be late, so I went and had a coffee next door and then she just canceled it and then she never followed up. And I tried to make an online appointment cuz I was so desperate. So I met my house one day and I got a call from this woman who I met just through the course of work. I interviewed her, her daughter was in the Special Olympics. She's a sort of a healer person. We've interacted a couple times. We're in a WhatsApp group. She just calls me up. She said, I just had this feeling that I should call you. So we're talking, talking, and she. You know, I, I've been on thyroid medication since I was, for 13 years. I was on thyroid medication. I had, Hashimoto's disorder, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and she said, but I'm off of it. I'm gonna start a podcast. I'm gonna talk about how I healed myself. And I said, how did you heal yourself? She said, oh, this Dr. Sophie Skogen. She helped me heal. And so I asked her all about it. Dr. Sophie Skogen is an Norwegian doctor living in Dubai. She's a gut specialist. She's a homeopathic specialist. She helped the Dubai government set up their homeopathic program and Steph said, you know, it's private and it's not cheap, but it's worth every single penny. And I just got off the phone and I was like, that's who can help me. I'm, I don't really have the money right now. I'm spending a lot of money setting up hot flash. I need her to help me. I know who this is gonna help me. So I made a, a virtual appointment with her. We spent an hour on the phone. I've never had this happen with a doctor. She asked me everything. She asked about my health history. She asked about my, trauma. She asked about my pain. She asked about my parents. She asked about like, I can't even tell you what she asked about. It felt so healing. When she asked me, I had developed conjunctivitis, like I'd started, I'm, I've been a really healthy person, but I'd started to get like weird, the weird kind of stuff you get when your health is on the fritz when things aren't working well in your body. And I felt, I felt I looked really unwell and sort of inflamed. So she said she, I sent her all the blood tests that I had. Cheaply in the regular medical system. And, she looked at everything and came back to me a couple days later and she said, yes, you have Hashimotos thyroiditis, you have low thyroid. I'm still not sure if those are the same thing. You have, fibroid nodules. You have a leaky gut, you have adrenal exhaust. You have hyperglycemia, a k, a pre-diabetes, and you have a fatty liver. But we're gonna fix all of those things. We're going to heal them, and in three months you'll be fine. And I just felt so certain that she was, she was right. So, I was just like, wow. So she basically sent me something and told me what to eat. She said, you're, we're not gonna eat fruit or sweets for now. You can add those in later. I want you to walk, I want you to move after everything you eat, I want you to focus on protein and really leafy green vegetables, and garlic and onions, and cooking your own food and having. You know, cilantro and parsley, and she told me a bunch of supplements to buy. I'd like too many to go into. That was the expensive part. And she said, and we'll do you some homeopathic remedies. So, she the first homeopathic remedy, one of the things I'm taking is iodine. She said, drink, apple cider vinegar in water before you eat and walk or just dance or move around your kitchen and. For 10, 15 minutes after you eat these things, the, the apple cider vinegar and water before can reduce your blood sugar by up to 30%. I've heard that a lot. And the movement after it just increases the energy demand. And she said, no hours of ec, no hour of exercising and hit. She said, just try to do 20 minutes of, you know, some, some strength and cardio. So I've been doing like the Nike, 20 minute. And I've been doing walking and yoga, some swimming, and she said, we're gonna, this is gonna be good. You're gonna, you're gonna work this out. So she also told me not to go back to that endocrinologist because he let me leave without, I mean, a traditional medicine person should have probably put me on thyroid medication. Like I shouldn't have been. I shouldn't have been walking around like that. So anyone out there who has struggled. Trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with them. When you're seeing doctors and they're just treating you like a series of unrelated organs, I want you to know that I see you and hear you. Like I said, to every one of those doctors, is this connected to that? I said to the endocrinologist, this thyroid, he didn't even care about the antibodies. He's like, oh. It's like your body's attacking itself. It's your thyroids attack. I. I said, well, isn't that connected to the fatty liver? Nope. Nope. Well, I mean, there's studies. I, I know how to find studies. The studies are there any idiot does it is connected. I, the guy doesn't know he's willfully blind. I have no idea. The bottom line is best, as I can ascertain, as I've had gut dysfunction for years and years and years. I don't know why. I have suspicions that has happened after I went off the pill, as did mood things, but, What I think is this dysbiosis, this gut dysfunction. You know, your body runs on backup pathways and it deals with it, but it can't do it forever. You know, 10, 15, 20 years and things start to go awry. So things start to back up. And I have other theories about the fatty liver and why that developed, but I'm gonna leave those. Till I investigate this because one thing I am sure of is that there are a subset of people who are very healthy and move and still get a fatty liver. And those people, I mean, I just saw a practitioner the other day say, move your ass and eat better. You know, basically like really crappy. So I, I got everything. I had some rough days and I spoke to my friend who's been through a lot of healing protocols and she said, look, sometimes it gets worse before it gets better. So that's what was happening. So I had some very low emotional days, very low energy days. I developed this weird tendonitis in both of my ankles and my ankles swelled up like crazy. Really suddenly, like right before I met this doctor, so not, not anything to do with the new supplements. And that was one thing that happened. So that was really odd and it really hurt. But that's almost gone now and basically within two weeks on her eating plan, which is pretty radical. I mean, there's no bread, but, you know, I can eat rice and potatoes and I don't feel hungry. I've lost over 20 pounds, like not even trying. I feel an energy coming back that's really profound. And so she said, that's a really good sign. It just shows me that your metabolism is working again. I can feel my gut sealing up. We're healing and sealing my leaky gut and I'm being very careful not to eat any aggravating foods. Sort of going from a combination of what he's recommending and, Steven Gundry's like lectin in the autoimmune protocol and I'm just sort of sticking with that. I. Almonds, I, I removed eggs, which I was loathed to do. Not at anyone's suggestion, but because in my days when I was desperate to figure out what was going on. I read the medical medium's thyroid book. There is some good stuff in there. And you know, something that even this doctor that I found isn't really interested in is the me, the medical medium's, His supposition that most of the stuff is caused by virus, including Epstein Bar virus. And when I read, when I read that, it really resonated because. He said you, a lot of people have the Epstein Bar virus and it can be triggered by a really traumatic event, and it can cause terrible body pain. And I will tell you that in 2017, my life basically fell apart. I had three really, really, really hard things happen. Had an absolute personal low, didn't want to be here, took months and months to. When the third of the three things happened, it happened over about a six month period. I was left with hideous body pain. Like I remember going to eat. I used to go to yoga like almost every day. I remember going to that studio and the owner came over and after the class it stopped me and said, what's wrong? Like you, what happened to you? You can't do anything. And I said, I don't know. I'm in such an, everything hurts. But that eventually did get better and I went, you know, in the whole 30 diet. I always thought it was sort of like if I'd let my diet slide a bit. But I had a sort of a mini explosion of stress, as I said previously in the, fall of 2021. I, my physical pain came back tremendously. It felt like my whole body hurt and it felt hurt, like painful to roll over in bed. And sometimes when I would go to get out of my car, I'd be like, I'm in too much pain. And I cried like at the height of this I cried out of frustration cuz my body hurt so much and everything was such an ordeal. And the medical medium's theory about Epstein Bar virus is that basically causes a lot of physical pain in your body's attacking the virus, and that Hashimotos is caused by not your body's attacking itself by, by the thyroid producing antibodies, injuring itself, fighting off the Epstein Bar virus and the Epstein Bar virus causes this physical pain. And one of the things that makes it so, makes love it loves is, And I ate eggs every day. Everyone's telling you to eat eggs all the time. And cooling's good for your brain. And when I was read this, I just for some reason hadn't eaten eggs for a couple days. The weird thing was eggs were kind of grossing me out. Like I would be like, Ugh, but I would down them, which I don't really think you should do with any food. So I just thought, oh, I'll go a couple more days without eating the eggs. Would you believe it? Physical pain, 90% gone. It. I, you know, I Candy aches right now. Apparently I can read through some later. So whatever it is, a combination of all these things. If I have the Epstein Bar virus, I may ask to be tested for it, but I don't even think I need to because I think I know that I have that too, and that's a cause of my body pain a month into this protocol. I'm just feeling tremendously better. This is the first week that I've had energy. Every day I've been able to. I haven't cried, like my mood is better. I feel like myself. I've got my, I'm getting plans back. I'm going out, I'm leaving the house. Like I'm just feeling much, much, much, much better. S my ankles aren't swollen anymore. I'm sleeping really well, which wasn't happening before, and I'm really excited for how I'm gonna feel in three months and. You know, I've lost 20 pounds. I feel like I don't look bloated or inflamed anymore. I feel like my gut's working. I feel like my liver is detoxing. I've actually, you know, I was heavily detoxing, but she, there's a lot of agents in this plan that, you know, are helping me support that detox, like, you know, liquid milk thistle and there's chlorella and and things like that. Taking digestive aids and, you know, B vitamins and vitamin C and, lots of things. Omega three s like lots and lots of things. It was very, very interesting when she gave me the, homeopathic remedy. You know, a lot of people don't believe in homeopathy. They say that, you know, the results in the scientific literature are mixed homeopathic remedies. Sci medi medicine was around far earlier than pharmacology, and it's maligned, but I believe it's maligned because of the pharmaceutical industry. You know, when I moved to Abu Dhabi in 2008 was when, probably one of the worst times for ibs. And no wonder because I moved here by myself with five suitcases and yeah, there's a lot about Abu Dhabi that seems like as a west, but it was a foreign country and I didn't have any of my support system around and I. F I floundered and somehow I found a homeopathic doctor and he gave me a homeopathic remedy. And I, it, of all the things I've taken into my life, I always remember that it was super effective, which is probably why I felt so good about, being referred to Dr. Sophie Skogen when she gave me the homeopathic remedy. I love saying that word. It's called carbon carbona. Just these little balls of sugar pills. I just took them not thinking anything she had said, stop, sh It was, it was like three doses over two days I think. She said, stop, if you start feeling sick, that means they're working. I didn't feel sick, but I, I did have this weird thought after a couple days, I just thought, I don't think I wanna drink coffee in the afternoon. And I mean, if you know. You know, my fun's been shrinking over the last couple of years. I'm 52, turning 53. I'm not out at the club. I don't eat chips and dip for fun. You know, the long term has overtaken the short term for me, and I make a lot more decisions now based on my long. Term because I have a shorter, long term. So it's much easier to not say, screw it, I'm gonna drink 20 drinks tonight. I've less people to do that with. I wanna do it less. So I'm drinking less, I'm eating less fun food, just doing a lot less irresponsible things. But coffee is like my party time. And so that's why I'd be like, you know, I can't, I can't give up that. But here I am just thinking I don't wanna have that. Like I have adrenal exhaustion. Like this coffee's really hard in your adrenal gland. It's like, I don't wanna do it. And I told the doctor that and she said, that's also a really good sign, cuz that means you're having energy, natural energy, and your body's just sort of saying, Hey, you know, hey, I'm, I'm okay. I don't, I don't need this coffee. Two days after I had that thought. I, I don't drink it. I have one coffee a day. I went to the Starbucks to work like I always did, and I bought a cold brew. Just was four o'clock in the afternoon. It's be my second coffee. I thought no big deal. I literally couldn't drink it. Like I only drank a little bit. And so we'll see how that's going. I've had more coffees today. That is for sure. I guess all I want to say about this is auto. Is a really common thing to have happen in perimenopause, pre-diabetes, insulin resistance, blood pressure problems, low cholesterol, high cholesterol. We are very, very vulnerable cause we're out of balance and there's a lot of talk on social media about this being like a wrong thing and this almost being like, we are diseased now, but I look. As an opportunity and many of the practitioners I do, as I talk to do as well, is this not a time when we are forced, forced to get this stuff organized so that we can move into the rest of our lives in health. Isn't perimenopause and menopause an opportunity the way it is for us mentally and spiritually? And I'm gonna do another podcast about that, about what's been happening to me lately because it is profound and it is good now that my mood isn't low from this thyroid and gut big changes are happening there. But that's a topic for another time. Isn't this just maybe an opportunity for us? Can't we look at it like. I'm looking at it like that, and if I had any advice for anyone, I would say find one person that you trust who can guide you outta this, whatever it is, your experience, autoimmune wise, adopt the autoimmune diets. They're out. Autoimmune eating protocols. You just have to search for them and find a practitioner who can lead you out of it. Don't try to source it from social media or from your friends. Even if you find someone online who has a program that works, there's lots of people doing them, but just don't too many courses. I'm trying to say, when you consult a bunch of people, it just like confuses everyth. So, yeah, that's what I'm saying and why I am not on H R T yet. The funny thing is, this doctor that I love does not prescribe H R T. I was taking some D H E H, which is really some hormone therapy because it's a precursor. It helps your body make progesterone and testosterone. She said, go off that. While we're. And she said, I'm gonna balance everything for you and you're not gonna need hormone therapy. And so if I do wanna go on hormone therapy after, I'll probably to sneak room and do it behind her back. I'm not on hormone therapy yet because in 2017 when I realized I was in perimenopause, I had a French gynecologist and I asked her, she did the a few tests. She said, she, yeah, it looks like it's happening for you. And I said, can I get some hormone? And she said, I don't, oh no, I don't like to give it to laughter. Menopause. You hear that a lot from doctors. There's a lot of people trying to get it prescribed in perimenopause, but the research is a bit scant, not a bit scanned. It's very scant for perimenopause. So she said she didn't like to, and she said if we were in France it'd be something, but I don't like what they have here in the uae. And it was before I knew much of anything, so I couldn't challenge her. I never really pursued. And I switched gynecologists. So this year I've got a gynecologist and she's from India. So in February, you know, we noted that I'm halfway through probably my last year, fingers crossed. And I said, can I get some hormone therapy? She doesn't wanna put me on it. She said, not till I'm done para menopause. And I was like, oh my god. Like another doctor that will put me on it. That just shows you that not every doctor is versed in. I don't know whether they're wrong. It seems like they're probably being too cautious, but because I'm doing this protocol now, I don't really want to go on hormone therapy. I have seen people talking about hormone. One of the reasons hormone therapy might not work with people is when they have gut dysbiosis and be I, I am concerned about people going on hormone therapy. Who have autoimmune disorders or SIBO or something like that and having it not work and then being depressed or having those problems running in the background and not knowing, and you know, Hashimotos is something you don't really wanna mess with. You really don't because there are links to all sorts of other problems. It's really important to get it cleared up. So I don't know, what if you go on hormone therapy and you have Hashimotos and you get some more energy, but you don't feel as good as you possibly could, this is what worries. So I do have some progesterone cream that I got this week and I have used it for the last two nights and I have slept like an absolute baby. So I guess I'm kind of unlike baby hormone therapy. But that's just an experiment, that progesterone and, that is where I'm at. And I hope that makes some sense to you and I hope it helps you. I have been very, very, very low and I have. I had a really hard time functioning and I had sort of lost hope because I'm a single woman. If I don't work, nothing comes in. I don't have a backup system. You know, other than moving home to Canada and living in my brother's basement, like it is not an option for me to fall apart to get really. And it's not in my vision for myself. And I know these things aren't always up to us, but I am just so thrilled to be back in a place where I'm not scared because I hate living in fear. And that is how I felt. Like that feeling that there's something really wrong with you and it is never easy to be sick. But when you're just in your apartment and your life has just shrunk down to nothing. Being pretty darn fabulous. Things feel really, really rigor real. So I just wanna offer everyone hope and, let you know that I'm coming back. I don't think I'm gonna do 60 minute hit workouts, though. The more I see it's just not, it's not that necessary really. I'm getting great benefits from. Well, I have been talking a long E enough. I think my TikTok people are getting bored. Thank you so much for listening. Coming back next week with starting great interviews. I've done so many interviews I can't even remember, but I've got experts talking about testosterone. I've got an amazing expert talking about all vagina stuff. I've got people talking about spiritual. Mine stuff like really, really, really, really good. So check back next week. You're gonna have some fire content and thank you for tuning in. Thank you for the new listeners who found Hot Flash Inc. You can engage with me. Through this podcast, hot Flash Inc. The website. There's a great, quick 14 things you can do to, fix your perimenopause symptoms fast. You can sign up for my sub, that's where I speak to you directly, and I have a paid and free version. We talk about all the menopause things over there, and all my social media, TikTok, Instagram. Pinterest, also LinkedIn. Anne Marie McQueen, I'll see you there. 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