I don’t know if you’re still looking for stories. Mine is not as dramatic as some—but I’m being encouraged by friends to tell you so here goes.

I’ve been on the protocol since October of 2003. At that time I was just turning 61. I had started into menopause at 46, was put on hormone replacement and couldn’t take the phony stuff (fortunately for me) so I set out to find a substitute. I was lucky enough to find a doctor that did bioidentical hormones (realize this is 16 years ago) and so I did variations on that theme for the next 14 years. I had my period for a couple more years and then it stopped. I was healthy except for ongoing aches and pains resulting from a family tendency toward autoimmune problems, looked a good 10 years younger than my age, was happily married with a good sex life and generally felt I was about as well as I could be at my age. 

I am a baby boomer born in 1947. I participated (quite happily I might add) in the sexual revolution of the 60’s. The birth control pill was radical. It meant that women could enjoy their sexuality without worrying about getting pregnant. Synthetic hormones, who cared! We didn’t even think about it. It was modern, like going to the moon, plastics, the Beatles. It changed the world and it allowed me to have freedom and fun. A few years later, when the scary stories came out, I switched to the IUD. I had three of them; the lippes loop, dalkon shield and finally the copper 7. I still have them. Maybe someday I’ll make jewelry out of them! 

I am 56 years old and have been on the Wiley Protocol for the past 2 years.

My symptoms before were mind fog, disturbing sleep patterns, low libido and aches and pains associated with aging.

I take the basic progesterone and I use two extra lines of estrogen per dose.

I am grateful to now be on Wiley Protocol.  I started 9/6/05. I have just completed my third month.  I was referred for vaginal atrophy, post menopause syndrome. I have fibroid tumors in my uterus, and a calcified growth in one ovary.  I will be 68 this month.  I could not tolerate synthetic hormones. My GYN recommended a radical hysterectomy.  Now that won't be necessary.  I am on  E+2 as of 10-30, and P-2 as of 11-21. 

I have now been on the Wiley Protocol for almost 2 years.  I am certain that I was a "textbook Poster Child" for the symptoms that T.S. Wiley detailed in her book "Sex Lies & Menopause: the Shocking Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy". 

After reading the book and meeting T.S. Wiley, I elected to try her therapy, mostly to try to alleviate the feeling that I was "losing my mental sharpness, and ability to think clearly. I was also experiencing night sweats, interval sleeping that was ruining my life, and pounding in my heart, that I now believe was my thyroid gland on over-drive due to menopause.