Chandra Shares Her Journey Back to Life!
Case Study: A Story of Hope and Restoration
When her husband proposed to her over 35 years ago, Bobbie V. was a vivacious, energetic, loving woman full of all the hope and promise her life ahead had to offer. Through the years of marriage and rearing of four children, Bobbie V. maintained that spark and enthusiasm in everything she did.
About the time she was in her early 40’s however, the light began to dim in this once spirited wife and mother, and her well established OB/GYN spouse was at a loss of what to do. Bobbie began to exhibit signs of depression, anxiety and extreme moodiness that was inexplicable and confusing to her entire family.
By the time she was in peri-menopause some 6 years later, she began to take oral estrogen and progesterone for her symptoms with little to no improvement in her depression or extreme mood swings. At age 65 her then retired husband, desperate for a solution, brought her to our clinic.
Mrs. V. had all the classic symptoms of androgen deficiency, and a treatment plan that included a regime of low dose androgen, estrogen and progesterone was started. Four weeks later at her follow up visit, Mrs. V. broke in to tears when I walked in the room. My first thought was I had gotten her treatment plan all wrong, but after she composed herself she went on to share “ I haven’t liked my husband for 25 years, and now I realize all of this time it was me and not him….I feel like I have lost so much time with him and I
cant get it back, he is 85 years old and I don’t know how much more time we have”.
A few weeks later, Mr. V was on my
schedule as a patient, when I walked in the room he stopped me and said: “Before we start, I have to say two things. First, thank you for giving me my wife back. Second, had I known about this therapy when I was a practicing gynecologist, I would have used it on all of my patients based on the changes I have seen in my wife”.
This story never ceases to inspire me. You see, both Mr. V and Mrs. V were lamenting the loss of time, the years of hopelessness and helplessness that resolved as a result of a simple assessment and treatment plan that included optimizing androgen levels with testosterone replacement therapy.
Terri DeNeui, MSN, APRN-BC, DNPs
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