Hi,
I have come across your practice on the internet and have been fascinated by your studies on hormone imbalance.
For the past four years i have been living in hell, and been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, TMJ, Fibromyalgia, Adrenal fatigue, Low blood pressure, hypoglycaemia… the list goes on! my symptoms are mainly chronic fatigue, anxiety, over producing adrenalin, brain fog and memory loss/lack of feeling…i know underneath is a hormone problem which has caused all this. I recently started applying natural progesterone cream but the symptoms were so severe, pounding heart, shortness of breath, dizzyness and numbness down one side of the body, it became clear that i am just so sensitive to hormones, i thought the cream was killing me and stopped after a week…i am now so exhausted i am in bed most of the day, adrenaline pumping through me and feeling terrible, my doctor says i had this reaction because i have taken the emergency contraceptive pill 4 times in my life, i am 28 years old, and this has messed up my hormones…. i am so desperate to get better, i will even come to texas if i have to; i am in London!
Can you offer any advice?
Many thanks
Chloe
Yes. We can help you. Since you already know what the problem is…you hit it right on the head. Even traditional medicine is beginning to admit that hormone allergy does exist, and that people like you and I, actually do have a real problem. They’ve even given it a name: progesterone mediated hypersensitivity. We still call it hormone allergy among ourselves. You seem to be a classic case for us. Even our poster child.
Before you do anything else, go to www.amazon.com. Download and read the first chapter of Dr. Roby’s new book: “Maybe It Is All In Your Head…And You Are NOT Crazy”. You can also go back to the website, which I would suggest: www.robyinstitute.com, and carefully read, or reread, these three sections, in this order. If you find more questons to ask, after reading them, just email your list to me. 1) Hormone Imbalance. 2) Food Allergy. 3) Airborne Allergy. You will have more knowledge about what is going on in your own body, and what you can do to regain control of it, than any physician that you have ever seen. If the diagnosis of hormone imbalance seems a bit grim, keep in mind that it isn’t some dreadful, deadly disease that you have to suffer with. It is an imbalance. One that is easy to recognize and easily fixed. It is a lifestyle change, not just a treatment.
Can you come here for testing and treatment? We can email a lab slip so that you can have your blood work done locally. It usually takes about 10 days for us to receive the results back. You can call or email us, and someone will give you the findings, and your options, as we see them. We can schedule you for an appointment as soon as the results are in.
Because hormones and allergies are so closely interrelated, Dr. Roby prefers to test for, and treat both at the same time. He has found that it gives him, and the patient, optimal results in the shortest possible time. There are, however, some things that you can begin doing immediately, that will make you feel much better. It is the nonmed portion of the protocol. Follow it for thirty to sixty days, and I promise that you will feel 50% better. We do like for you to check in with us during this period, so that we can monitor your progress, and give you added suggestions, if needed.
Movement: LSD, Looong Slooow Distance walking. 1 hour in the morning, and 1 hour in the evening, indoors, preferably on a treadmill. How slow should you go? Not over 1 mile per hour, at first. Pulse rate should stay below 90. You do not want to become breathless, you don’t want to sweat, and you don’t want to become tired. If any of those things happen…you are going too fast. Begin slowly. If you can only do 10 minutes, that’s fine. Tomorrow you try it again. When it becomes easy at 10 minutes, try for fifteen. Incrementally done is best. Although we use this for weight loss, it is used even more often, for dissipating the excess adrenaline. It is one of the only and certainly the safest, ways. Of all three steps in this protocol, movement is the most important. If you cannot, or will not move, the entire process is derailed. Without movement, there isn’t much life.
When you are pumping out adrenaline, and using it for all of your energy needs, it sends a signal to the brain that you are in an emergency situation. Our bodies are hard wired to stop burning fat in the presence of adrenaline. Adrenaline also makes it difficult to sleep. the hormone allergy sets up the need for the over production of adrenaline. Adrenaline causes stress, stress causes pain, which causes more adrenaline…you can see where we are going with this…into the stress-pain-stress-pain cycle. Some outside influence must be used to turn it off. Much the same way as shutting down your computer, and restarting it, gives you a new slate. That is what we do. We can stop the pain, almost instantly, simply by using sublingual drops of the offending substance. It isn’t a therapeutic dose, just blocks the allergic reaction. This gives us the time to design a longer term treatment plan for you, based solely on the results of your tests. Each of the treatment plans is unique to the individual. Even the bioidentical hormones. The doctor’s prescriptions for the creams and capsules, are based on the tests, and formulated for those results.
Diet: Simplify. Low carbs, low fat diet. Eat mini meals, more frequently. We like the South Beach Diet because of the number of choices that it offers. Weight Watchers is good, too. All diets will work if you follow them religiously, and South Beach is, for most of us, the easiest one to stick with. And, remember that sugar is never your friend. You will want to choose the carbs from the lowest side of the Glycemic Index. The food restrictions are used on ‘school days and nights’. On the weekend, Saturday or Sunday, you can eat whatever you have missed the most during the week. You can eat a lot of it. Eventually, you will know which foods are, in your own opinion, are worth going through the inevitable reactions that you will have, and which are not.
Spirituality: Yours, not ours. Whatever makes you relax and concentrate on your own well being. Yoga, prayer, Tai Chi, etc. This is still part of the controlling mechanism for excess adrenaline production.
Please let me know if you have more questions, or if I can help you with anything else. Email me at any time.
Dorothy Dreux
Roby Institute
