Another thing that's been disturbing to me is how doctors simply hand out pills without tailoring them to the individual woman's needs. In her most recent book, "The Estrogen Answer Book: 150 Most-Asked Questions About Hormone Replacement Therapy," frequent Power Surge guest and friend, Ruth S. Jacobowitz, says,

"It remains interesting to me that bright, active women are not fully aware of the facts about estrogen and that includes knowing there are different products, manufactured from different estrogen sources, available in different strengths. This is not a woman's fault, this is the fault of the physician who... may start all patients on one drug in one strength. I can almost understand that prescribing formula. It's easier for the physician and for many women it works. As Dr. R. Jeffrey Chang explains, 'Physicians often become comfortable with one product, know everything about it, and because of their knowledge prescribe it most often.' The problem is that for other women it doesn't work, and then it becomes the soman's responbility to get back to the physician and complain LOUD AND CLEAR about persistent
symptoms. It helps if you, the patient, have that conversationfully armed with information about what else there is that you can try."

From everything I've heard from women over the years, providing that information is exactly what we're doing here in Power Surge :)

In hopes of continuing
along those lines and shedding some additional light
on the product / dosage theory, utilizing information in Ruth's book, I've prepared a table of the most widely used estrogen and progesterone commercial preparations. Also, don't forget to read about Your hormones and Bio-Identical compounding.