hormones supplementation

I have not. And, boy do I feel for you. As if lyme symptoms aren't enough, now you have meno symptoms too. You poor thing.

I did "natural" progesterone cream. It is not a miracle cure. It took the edge off my symptoms. My progesterone was compounded by a pharmacy. In the olden days when I started meno I had to get my stuff from Wisconsin. A long way from Cali. That was the ONLY place to get it. Now I think docs order stuff for their patients called bioidentical quite regularly.

As for night sweats - mine lasted a long time, as in years. As for hot flashes - I still can have a sip of wine and my face will go flush. The best part is you get to where you just can't care. Caring will frustrate you and stress you out. I just dealt with it.

Sheets and blankets on. 5 minutes later everything off. 5 minutes later freezing and blankets and a comforter back on.

Hubby and I joked about it. For years I said "roll your window up." We both aged and I was the one with the window down and he was the one saying "roll your window up."

I think lyme taxes many systems and organs.

If you can help a system or organ out, that is a very beneficial thing to do.

I had horrible brain fog with menopause. So when I got lyme and got horrible brain fog, it was super familiar. At first I thought I was going through menopause again. Then I read about lyme and brain fog. Whew!

Again, my heart goes out to you battle lyme and something else.

Girlie - that's interesting. It's time for mine to stop. Trust me! Way past due. The flashes and sweats seem to be increasing in frequency. I did order some natural estrogen cream, but not sure it will do anything. I took an online quiz and it sounded like most of my symptoms were related to low estrogen, low progesterone and thyroid. I've been dealing with thyroid over a decade, and I use a progesterone cream from same company that makes this estrogen one. If I don't see an improvement, I'll probably go ahead with the testing but I see I'll need to be cautious and watch for lyme symptoms changing.

Kat,

Read this article and discuss it with your LLMD before doing bioidenticals. Lyme and co complicate hormone therapy and results may not be as expected. Forewarned is forearmed.
www.gordonmedical.com/unravelling-complex-chronic-illness/lyme-neurotoxins-and-hormonal-factors/

Look at any herbs and supplements you're taking and make sure they don't have anything causes your estrogen to drop. I took Vitex for 7 weeks and at that point I started having hot flashes, headaches and nausea. It made my estrogen go too low. I stopped the Vitex, and those symptoms went away. I did use Progon topical progesterone for about a year. It helped some. I stopped it when I started Vitex, which works to raise progesterone and lower estrogen. I also take Estrosense. Still on that.

There's a good source of hormone information on this site, too, that I found get helpful. www.larabriden."com