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I was just curious after watching Oprah and Suzanne Somers today and the hormone program.

Suzanne uses estrogen and progesterone cream and says she feels wonderful, etc..etc., lost weight, has energy..etc…They are prescribed by her doctor and have to be in perfect balance for her body. She is 62..

Now..I don’t use anything like that..I have had a hysterectomy so I’m hormoneless..(but did have a pre-cancer cell), so I’m leery of estrogen..

Anyone have any thoughts on this????? Thnx.

Anybody on it? Familiar with it? I am trying to do this menopause thing well, but it’s not working. I thought it was mind over matter – no way! I wake up drenched at night, have gotten real angry and *****y ( my poor husband), no sex drive, etc…. I have heard that these bio identical hormones are safer?

Your opinion? My son is a doctor, and he says estrogen is estrogen is estrogen, meaning it’s still dangerous.

Anyone? Deb

Hello.

I was wondering if anyone here has been to therapy or counseling for an eating disorder. I have my first appointment with a therapist this Friday and am wondering what to expect. I’m a little nervous and excited at the same time. Has anyone had success with it?

i saw this on another board and feel it is therapeutic to discuss and share.

among the many things i have been called beside the regular fat$o, fat a$$ etc.

i had the honor of being called BOOM BOOM all throughout high school. like a dummy i thought i would beat them at there own game and call myself that.

the worst time was having someone call me fat – while driving down the street with my husband

Alternative therapy: healing or hooey?
By Kim Painter, USA TODAY

Biostatistician R. Barker Bausell tried acupuncture once, for a chronic backache. The needle pricks and the warmth from the heat lamp aimed at his sore back felt good at the time, he recalls. They didn’t do a thing for his underlying pain.

But when the acupuncturist asked if the treatment had helped, Bausell said yes. "What could I say? I worked with the guy all the time," says the scientist, who was then director of research at a center for complementary medicine at the University of Maryland.

Today, Bausell is saying plenty about his five years in the world of complementary and alternative medicine (also known as CAM). He has written a book called Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Oxford University Press).

In it, he uses a broad brush to paint doubt over therapies that include acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy, chiropractic treatment, hypnosis and energy healing, among others. An obvious criticism is that he lumps together very different approaches.

But he argues that the differences aren’t as important as what they share: an ability to make people feel better — if patients believe they will. In short, Bausell writes: "CAM recipients feel better because of the placebo effect."

The rest is here:
Alternative therapy: healing or hooey? – USATODAY.com

By Gene Emery

BOSTON (Reuters) – Taking a baby aspirin may prevent heart attacks in men, but it does little to ward off a first heart attack in women aged 45 to 64, researchers reported on Monday.

However, the low-dose aspirin therapy widely recommended for both men and women may reduce the risk of stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel in the brain, according to the findings.

The results do not apply to people who are taking aspirin because they have already survived a heart attack.

Until now, doctors have widely recommended low-dose aspirin therapy for both genders, even though that advice was based on studies that mostly included men.

But when researchers tested aspirin on nearly 40,000 women as part of the Women’s Health Study, they found the women who received a placebo were no more likely to have a first heart attack than those who regularly took aspirin for 10 years.

"Aspirin had no significant effect on the risk of fatal or nonfatal myocardial infarction (heart attack)," said the team, led by Paul Ridker of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

But women who took 100 milligrams of aspirin every other day — the equivalent of taking one baby aspirin each day — were 24 percent less likely to have an ischemic stroke, the most common type of stroke caused when blood can’t get to the brain.

That benefit came with a price.

The women who were taking aspirin were 40 percent more likely to develop serious stomach or intestinal bleeding that required a transfusion.

Among the 4,097 women in the study over 64, regular aspirin use began to show a clear benefit, cutting the risk of ischemic stroke by 30 percent and the chance of heart attack by 34 percent.

"Age significantly modified the effect of aspirin," the researchers said.

Previous research on men showed regular aspirin use reduced the risk of having a heart attack by 32 percent, yet did not seem to affect the likelihood of a stroke.

Ridker and his colleagues said the findings "clearly demonstrate the importance of studying women as well as men in major cardiovascular clinical trials."

The study, which will be published later this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, was released early to coincide with a presentation at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.