The 24-Hour Pharmacist by Suzy Cohen

Author:Suzy Cohen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

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Surge Protection for Your Hot Flashes

Y u’re dripping with sweat one minute and freezing the next. You haven’t had a good night’s sleep in months, you occasionally lose bladder control, you want to bite everyone’s head off, and you feel as though your insides are drying out. Welcome to menopause!

It was eighteen years ago, but I’ll never forget the time Kathy fretfully leaned over my pharmacy counter and begged me to help her deal with her hot flashes. She could hardly get the words out, stating that she had been up all night—again! —and she was fighting with her husband about it (apparently he didn’t empathize with her enough), and she was getting no help from her current medication, either.

As a brand-new pharmacist, I was schooled in all the latest drugs and their benefits. I’m sort of an encyclopedia, so I began parroting everything I knew from pharmacy school, eagerly informing Kathy about the newest estrogens that could cool her off and the strongest sleep aids available. She left with a laundry list of products that she was going to ask her doctor to prescribe, and I was pleased that by most clinical assessments, I’d given her the perfect pharmacy consultation.

Even though it’s been years since this incident happened, I’ve thought of it often, mostly because now, our conversation would be so different. I’d tell Kathy not to take lab-created versions of hormones when bioidentical, natural hormones exist, some that she could buy without a prescription. I’d walk her down the supplements aisle and show her several natural, safe ways to cool off, calm down, and fall asleep—no doctor required. Oh, if I could only turn back time!

Well, maybe I can’t go back and help Kathy—but, ladies, your 24-hour pharmacist is right here for you!

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