About the Author: Linda Halberg

By Linda Halberg Updated 4 min read

Who I am

My name is Linda Halberg. I am 62 years old. I taught high-school English in the Worthington and Westerville school districts north of Columbus, Ohio, from 1993 until I retired in 2021. I am 5'5". I have been married to my husband Tom for thirty-four years; we have two adult children and one grandson. I am not a doctor, not a nurse, not a registered dietitian, and not a journalist. I am a retired teacher with time on her hands and a habit of writing things down carefully.

I am also a post-menopausal woman who gained nineteen pounds in the two years after my last menstrual cycle, tried Wegovy and could not tolerate it, tried Mounjaro briefly and could not tolerate that either, and ended up — after my younger sister\'s recommendation — testing the Ledisa botanical patch for 90 days starting in February 2025. The full account of that experiment is the homepage of this site.

Why I made this site

Three reasons.

First, when I was researching the patch before buying it, the available information was scattered across Reddit threads, Amazon reviews of unrelated products, and the brand\'s own marketing. I wanted to know if it was real, if it was safe, what was actually in it, and what to expect. I could not find any single source that answered those questions in language a regular adult could read. I took thirty pages of notes during my 90 days and the natural next step was to write them up.

Second, post-menopausal women are an underserved audience for honest product writing. Most of what gets written about weight management is aimed at women in their thirties or forties. The metabolic and hormonal situation after menopause is meaningfully different and most product reviews do not account for that.

Third, the larger category of "GLP-1 patches" is dominated by scammy TikTok products that get confused with legitimate brands. If a thoughtful review of one legitimate product helps a reader sort the signal from the noise, that is worth doing.

What this site is and is not

This site is one woman\'s experience with one product, plus the follow-up research I did to understand what I was experiencing. It is not medical advice. It is not pharmacology. It is not journalism in the institutional sense. It is a careful, written-down version of what a friend who has done the homework would tell you over coffee.

Specifically:

  • I have no medical, nutritional, or pharmaceutical credentials. Anything I say about ingredient mechanisms or drug interactions is sourced from publicly available research and labeled as such.
  • I am not affiliated with Ledisa as an employee, contractor, or paid spokesperson. I am an affiliate, meaning I earn a small commission if you click a link on this site and buy through the brand\'s site. That relationship is disclosed in the footer of every page.
  • I bought the product I am reviewing with my own money at full retail price.
  • I will update this site if my experience changes, if the brand changes its policies or formula, or if new clinical research changes the picture.

How to contact me

If you have a question about the patch that this site does not answer, a correction to flag, or a story of your own you would like to share, the contact page has the email address. I cannot give medical advice and will not pretend to. I will tell you what worked for me, what did not, and where the gaps in my knowledge are.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure

This site contains affiliate links to tryledisa.com. If you click one of those links and make a purchase, I may receive a commission from the brand. The amount per sale is in the low double digits in U.S. dollars. The commission does not affect the price you pay. The presence of the affiliate relationship has not affected the content of the reviews — both the positive observations and the criticisms (particularly around auto-renewal and the absence of published transdermal absorption data) reflect my honest assessment of the product.

Everything else on the site is editorial. No sponsored posts. No paid placements within reviews. No undisclosed comparisons. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed prominently at the top of the affected page.