? for post meno/no ovaries members

[Guest guest]

Hi

Were you ever able to tell how much of your brain fog was due to lack

of T3 and how much due to lack of estrogen?

I ask because my brain fog is getting really unbearable and because

the possibility of me trying T3 again is a long way off, I'm thinking

of trying estrogel.

Will that mess things up altogether?

Thanks

x

[Guest guest]

Hi hon

I am post menopausal and I aren't sure what I am short of. I say this

because I am big and they say that big women tend to hold onto

estrogen in the fat cells.

My doc is willing to give me hrt but as you say I am worried about

messing things up even more. He doesn't test for individual female

hormones so I cannot supplement one without knowing the status of the

other. I will say the hrt he gave me in the past didn't do me any

good. I tried progesterone natural cream which set me off bleeding.

So I am like you sorry, no idea. Maybe your doctor will test your levels?

lotsa luv

Dawnx

[Guest guest]

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> Hi hon

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> I am post menopausal and I aren't sure what I am short of. I say

>this because I am big and they say that big women tend to hold onto

> estrogen in the fat cells.

Thanks for your thoughts Dawn. That's how I found out about my

thyroid, while I was trying to find solutions after my hysterectomy.

So I've come full circle.

I was trying to leave sex hormones alone til I'd sorted out my

adrenals and thryoid, thinking that was the correct order in which

to do things, but that's taken so much longer than expected that

meanwhile my brain has got lost somewhere and I'm finding it really

difficult.

Before I went off on the thyroid tangent, my GP felt that some

estrogel would help but I stalled her while I saw Dr P. He assured

me some T3 would take away the brain fog and I had high hopes but I

reacted badly to it and had to come off. I'm so desperate to be able

to think straight and work things out and remember what I read or

said or did literally ten seconds ago. Thinking and writing etc are

such hard work now. It's ridiculous.

To complicate matters, I've had sex hormone tests but the saliva

ones contradict the blood ones and I don't know which to go with!

I've got progesterone on order and have a doctor's appointment to

get some estrogel. But I'm still not sure it's the right thing to do

but just feel I can't put up with no brain any longer!

Is progesterone alone supposed to help the brain?

Thanks again Dawn, love all your posts BTW, you always maintain a

sense of humour which is marvellous considering your circumstances.

x

[Guest guest]

Oh thanks x

On the progesterone, well, here are things I have been told. One by Dr

Rind, when looking at hormones, he says oh blimey wish I could

rememeber properly. He has an old Weston Price seminar on his site, it

is very good on female hormones, it tells you basicly its like a

seesaw between estrogen and progesterone, which I suppose we realised,

but it is a good pdf enjoy.

http://www.drrind.com/forms/wp_metabolic_seminar.pdf

I think those diagrams of what hormone is a precurser to others are

really helpful. I believe there is one of those on thyoid-uk?

I believe progesterone can be relaxing but it made me start bleeding

again and I am post menopausal, gave me terrible period pains. However

someone somewhere (blimey I fell like I am in a land far away) said I

might need to start on a really tiny dose and build up, and as that

goes up the estrogen dominance should come down. So it is a thought on

which I shall ponder. A little test from the GP wouldn't hurt either grr

Good luck

luv Dawnx