I went to three WP providers before I found one who was actually implementing the Wiley Protocol as described in her book. The others were either prescribing incorrectly or were afraid of estrogen, and were prescribing the Wiley Protocol in name but not in substance. One OBGYN wanted to do blood tests in the first month instead of the third. When I asked why, he said to look at reducing the estrogen dosage. Since this would have completely undermined the estrogen peaking that would create the progesterone receptors that would allow for shedding, I did not go back to him.
I finally found a doctor that was actually implementing the Protocol as it is intended, and who was not afraid of estrogen. I started at age 65. In the first week on it I felt my body was internally vibrating, like a guitar string that had been plucked, this very good humming feeling. I had this persistent image in my mind of many dead sea anenome that were coming back to life, their tendrils reaching upward through the water, vibrating.
Because I had not had a period in 20 years, It took five months for me to come back online. I did not start shedding on the basic level Protocol. I was raised incrementally to Wiley level 4. I finally started monthly shedding after being put on Level 4. Monthly shedding is a critical component of the Wiley Protocol.
I have had no negative side effects of any kind. My skin (I had persistent dry spots that nothing helped) greatly improved in texture, with the dry spots quickly disappearing. I feel amazingly limber. We are female all of our lives. When we lose our hormones we lose a part of ourselves. It is wonderful to feel part of the human race again, to feel fully female again. If I have to choose between what the critics say and what my body is telling me, I trust my body. I will be on the Wiley Protocol the rest of my life. They will have to pry it out of my dead hands.
Read her book first. Then find a doctor who is not afraid of estrogen, and who is implementing the Wiley Protocol correctly.
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I went to three WP providers before I found one who was actually implementing the Wiley Protocol as described in her book. The others were either prescribing incorrectly or were afraid of estrogen, and were prescribing the Wiley Protocol in name but not in substance. One OBGYN wanted to do blood tests in the first month instead of the third. When I asked why, he said to look at reducing the estrogen dosage. Since this would have completely undermined the estrogen peaking that would create the progesterone receptors that would allow for shedding, I did not go back to him.
I finally found a doctor that was actually implementing the Protocol as it is intended, and who was not afraid of estrogen. I started at age 65. In the first week on it I felt my body was internally vibrating, like a guitar string that had been plucked, this very good humming feeling. I had this persistent image in my mind of many dead sea anenome that were coming back to life, their tendrils reaching upward through the water, vibrating.
Because I had not had a period in 20 years, It took five months for me to come back online. I did not start shedding on the basic level Protocol. I was raised incrementally to Wiley level 4. I finally started monthly shedding after being put on Level 4. Monthly shedding is a critical component of the Wiley Protocol.
I have had no negative side effects of any kind. My skin (I had persistent dry spots that nothing helped) greatly improved in texture, with the dry spots quickly disappearing. I feel amazingly limber. We are female all of our lives. When we lose our hormones we lose a part of ourselves. It is wonderful to feel part of the human race again, to feel fully female again. If I have to choose between what the critics say and what my body is telling me, I trust my body. I will be on the Wiley Protocol the rest of my life. They will have to pry it out of my dead hands.
Read her book first. Then find a doctor who is not afraid of estrogen, and who is implementing the Wiley Protocol correctly.
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