Sometimes symptoms initially improve. As pharmacists you are probably also aware that for some women symptoms immediately worsen. Endocrine balance and functioning is always disrupted. The chemical engineering of synthetics give the final product a half-life. This is the point, several months down the road, when even women who did well on synthetics initially, begin to develop symptoms.
Serum levels raise and eventually the body senses the overload.
The woman stops producing hormones and every day her body waits for the synthetic hormones it is used to having delivered like pizza, via pill, suppository, Depo-Provera shots, etc. In my seminars and on my radio shows I used to recommend that we first look to DIET for our vitamins and minerals. Of course eating well is very important. In recent years I have discovered that even the best diet is not enough. Crops are no longer rotated as they once were and the land is not left fallow long enough to recover depleted minerals.