Dej, you must get soy in some foods. Even restaurants.

I am allergic to it (major hives and throat swells and closes) and every package in the super market has either, soy protein, soy flour, soybean oil, some cellulose is soy, some glycerin is soy, some Mono and Dyglyserides (sp?) can be soy. Fiber or protein bars. Ensure drinks and other drinks for nutrition.

All salad dressings in a bottle, mayonnaise, some margarines, all packaged breads too. So I make my own cookies, breads, cakes, etc. Read labels you'll see it.

That, IMO, is why men are getting man-boobs, and losing their head hair so much earlier than any of the last generations ever did. It overrides the male hormones.

Women don't need it unless they had a hysterectomy, and I did at 32 too. I had 70 hot flashes a day. Horrible. So I took Estrogen. Some don't need it. Without a Uterus you don't need progesterone at all.

When they took me off it, I took thirty days to get the 70 flashes back. I went on it again. It takes about 30 days for any med to start working proper in your body. JMO

Natural or unnatural Menapause. The heat comes up from the bottom and works it's way up the body until you break out in a drenching sweat. You want ot run and take your clothes off, rip off your pantyhose if working, you can't stop the feeling wtihout Estrogen replacement.