spyzack
09-20-2007, 10:35 PM
This the back story- sorry if it is long-- I have SO MANY questions!! see below-
Here it is from a Female, who is 36 and just had a morphine pump put in 6-21/07. As of today, I am in full blown menaopause FROM the morphine pump. HOW??? well, i will give you the short version and if you need more info, reply back.
I had been feeling sick, weak, hormonal as hell- violet mood swings, no period since June, no libido, plus 29 other symptoms that relate to hormones... I phone my gyn on 9/5/07 for a list of blood work b/c I thought it realted to the tublal ligation I had last year...not even close. MY hormones levels were so low with estrogen, so high with prolacitin I am being monitored for a brain tumor (the level indicates a tumor on the pitutary gland- it can be seen in men and women), not to mention 6 other issues that need to be treated.
I was sent to an Endrinologist this week (9/18/07) and he does more blood work, but once he saw the morphine pump, he clearly stated- your morpine pump caused your menopause. I asked again maybe he meant PRE- menopause. NO- he claims that the morphine pump inhibits the hormones in ALL. In men, it would be erectil dystfunction!! The Endo. stated he has seen this three times in his practice years.
SO, I call my neuro surgreon when I hung up with the Endo. I asked had he ever heard of someone going into menopuase or having hormone pitutary problems from a morphine pump. He was quiet for a long, long moment and humbly replied "yes, it can cause pitutary problems....." This makes me feel great b/c I am not crazy going out of my mind and causing so much marital stress to the point of wanting a divorce after 19 years!!??!!
As of last night, I am on Hormone replacement therapy (FemHRT) for the next two or three decades, about to go on a drug to treat the Prolactin issue. This medication, makes you sick like a chemo patient. Gee, what fun..... After that is under control, then other issues will be dealt with.
????? How do you know you are on the right HRT? Is it still an NO NO?
What else should I take and be doing from a woman's view?? What should be avoided? What works most?
I feel like i am spriraling downward and do not know what direction to go in!!!
Thanks in advance...
Here it is from a Female, who is 36 and just had a morphine pump put in 6-21/07. As of today, I am in full blown menaopause FROM the morphine pump. HOW??? well, i will give you the short version and if you need more info, reply back.
I had been feeling sick, weak, hormonal as hell- violet mood swings, no period since June, no libido, plus 29 other symptoms that relate to hormones... I phone my gyn on 9/5/07 for a list of blood work b/c I thought it realted to the tublal ligation I had last year...not even close. MY hormones levels were so low with estrogen, so high with prolacitin I am being monitored for a brain tumor (the level indicates a tumor on the pitutary gland- it can be seen in men and women), not to mention 6 other issues that need to be treated.
I was sent to an Endrinologist this week (9/18/07) and he does more blood work, but once he saw the morphine pump, he clearly stated- your morpine pump caused your menopause. I asked again maybe he meant PRE- menopause. NO- he claims that the morphine pump inhibits the hormones in ALL. In men, it would be erectil dystfunction!! The Endo. stated he has seen this three times in his practice years.
SO, I call my neuro surgreon when I hung up with the Endo. I asked had he ever heard of someone going into menopuase or having hormone pitutary problems from a morphine pump. He was quiet for a long, long moment and humbly replied "yes, it can cause pitutary problems....." This makes me feel great b/c I am not crazy going out of my mind and causing so much marital stress to the point of wanting a divorce after 19 years!!??!!
As of last night, I am on Hormone replacement therapy (FemHRT) for the next two or three decades, about to go on a drug to treat the Prolactin issue. This medication, makes you sick like a chemo patient. Gee, what fun..... After that is under control, then other issues will be dealt with.
????? How do you know you are on the right HRT? Is it still an NO NO?
What else should I take and be doing from a woman's view?? What should be avoided? What works most?
I feel like i am spriraling downward and do not know what direction to go in!!!
Thanks in advance...