Wife’s BW is in. Feedback please!!

[GirlyGymRat]

Thanks for you freedback.

So new question to you or anyone wanting to answer. She’ll begin her Estrogen and Progestin orals tomorrow after she picks up the script. With a diagnosis of very thin vaginal walls with shrinkage...

Does anyone know how long the HRT takes to improve the problems of thin vaginal walls and vaginal shrinkage? Weeks? Months? Anyone know this.

We have a question of this into the dr via text but we’d like to hear what others have experienced or heard of.

My obgyn mentioned I had strong lining so not sure but I [emoji848] depends estrogen dosage. I would call dr office and ask nurse.

My oral script lowest possible dosage and after 6mo BW was 4 times max range. No wonder gained weight while eating almost nothing and couldn’t loose any weight. HELLO. My testosterone was 4x max range and no wonder I was Randy. HELLO.

I personally suffered 3 mo longer then needed!!!! Hope this helps your wife. I was breaking out on my face. Oily hair and skin. It’s wasn’t fun.

HRT required dialing in with BW. How often will Dr be checking her BW?

[kelkel]

My testosterone was 4x max range and no wonder I was Randy. HELLO.

Call me Randy.

[GirlyGymRat]

Call me Randy.

[Notpretty]

My obgyn mentioned I had strong lining so not sure but I [emoji848] depends estrogen dosage. I would call dr office and ask nurse.

My oral script lowest possible dosage and after 6mo BW was 4 times max range. No wonder gained weight while eating almost nothing and couldn’t loose any weight. HELLO. My testosterone was 4x max range and no wonder I was Randy. HELLO.

I personally suffered 3 mo longer then needed!!!! Hope this helps your wife. I was breaking out on my face. Oily hair and skin. It’s wasn’t fun.

HRT required dialing in with BW. How often will Dr be checking her BW?

Well, Kaiser gave her a very pretty and lengthy handout detailing their views, options for patients, risks and benefits. It did cover most all you need to read and know. But they state specifically that testing results they believe is so varied and inconclusive from one person to the next that following test results primarily will likely lead to bad results for most patients. But they then say the best results are best achieved by following very closely the feedback and symptoms from the patients. They do say test scores are guidelines but getting patients to a place their issues are reduced and managed requires listen to the patient mostly. This is focused on peri and postmenopausal symptoms.

I don’t know if this is more progressive a stance to take by Kaiser or just a dodge to avoid testing costs or what.

They did zero testing prior to prescribing her .5 mg of estradiol and 100 mg of progestin. Both Oral pills.

The test scores above include in this thread we did outside of kaiser. So I think their plan is start with these pills and in 3 months do a follow up appointment and follow my wife’s feedback and then test maybe. But that means no baseline testing which is dumb as hell to me. Thoughts?

[Notpretty]

Did you tell them you had done testing already? They may have decided it wasn't warranted if you had recent blood work. It seems like you kind of have baselines to work with, unless I'm missing something?

No we did not say anything. We were hoping they would test again. So mum we were. Yes we have baseline. But only because we did test. Just seems stupid not to if you’re kaiser and I think they manage healthcare cost by not testing and give excuses that testing leads to bad results as an excuse. Not sure though.