Health addendum
Oct. 12th, 2015 14:42![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI'm rather confused now. As I suspected, high estrogen tends to *lower* the basal temperature. So why am I getting symptoms of excess estrogen when my temperature is high?
I would normally say that maybe my progesterone is high (explaining the high core temp) and the estrogen is high too -- but they balance out the effects of each other, so I shouldn't be getting nausea unless my estrogen is outside its normal ratio to progesterone. It might be that P is high and E is way too high, but the blood tests so far haven't borne that out. Then again, my E was measured when I felt fine, and P hasn't been measured... but the level of E at which I felt fine was on the low-middle end of the range. I would have to be bringing it down from the stratosphere, and I'm simply not taking that much GSE.
I need more testing. I need regular testing while I fiddle with dosages. Otherwise I'm really not sure I can make heads or tails of this.
I would normally say that maybe my progesterone is high (explaining the high core temp) and the estrogen is high too -- but they balance out the effects of each other, so I shouldn't be getting nausea unless my estrogen is outside its normal ratio to progesterone. It might be that P is high and E is way too high, but the blood tests so far haven't borne that out. Then again, my E was measured when I felt fine, and P hasn't been measured... but the level of E at which I felt fine was on the low-middle end of the range. I would have to be bringing it down from the stratosphere, and I'm simply not taking that much GSE.
I need more testing. I need regular testing while I fiddle with dosages. Otherwise I'm really not sure I can make heads or tails of this.