Dear Dr. Roby,
I probably am a classic case for you.
I am currently 53 years old and relatively healthy (at least I like to think
I am), but I have been suffering from asthma problems for the past
six years. I have had allergies to numerous things since I
was young.
Prior to puberty I had hives on a regular basis. One week prior to
beginning menstruation, I was hospitalized for head to toe hives for one
week, with resulting no answers to this phenomenon. As I have aged, and
informed myself, I believe most of the hive issue has been related to
hormones.
Now as I approach menopause, I have come up with new symptoms and would
like help. This year I began having vertigo issues.
I walk around with a constant ache in the top of my head,
fatigue, etc. I used to be one of those people that “goes and goes,” and this is not
cutting it.
I have been taking estrogen for the past 4 years with good results.
Can you help?
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Dr. Roby replies:
Yes, you are our classic patient.
We have found that our “classic patients” patients share one thing in common. They have a hormone imbalance and many, if not most of them, also have a true hormone allergy. Some of them show an allergic reaction to multiple hormones. This is the real root of their problems and because traditional physicians usually have a very sketchy idea of hormones, what they do, and how important they are. Our patients are most often misdiagnosed. Because the physician cannot find a suitable disease category to put them into the default decision is autoimmune disease. The reason that so many of them don’t get better until they come to us is because they have been treated for an illness that they don’t have. People that we see have an imbalance, not a disease. By treating the hormone imbalance and treating the allergies at the same time we can achieve a much better result than by treating either one separately.