Finally doing a reliable hormone test!

[Guest guest]

Well, I went to my Lyme Dr. yesterday and we talked a lot about

vulvodynia (which he fortunatly knows a lot about). We think its part

of my Lyme as it is listed as a symptom and so many women lymies have

this symptom. BUT I mentioned that there are many causes of Vulvodynia

(and that we could treat the sypmtoms but we should try to find and

treat the actual cause) and I started listing them... when I got to

hormone imbalance a light bulb went off (I could see it over his

head). He mentioned a former patient of his that had horrible hormone

issues but blood tests always showed she was fine. He did a saliva

test and it showed many imbalances, she's on bio-identical hormones and

doing so much better.

So....I am doing the saliva test - have to wait for the right day in my

cycle. I fill up four tubes with salive (at least half way) at certain

times during the day and then send the test in.

Have any of you had this test? It doesn't feel like I have hormone

imbalances - in fact I've been having very nice cycles since I

started " Adrenal Support " (an herbal tincture) and I'm also on Armour

Thyroid BUT I am happy to be doing the test to see if I indeed do have

an imbalance. I think (hope) I'm close to menopause so this could

potentiall help.

[Guest guest]

>Molly, I too just did the saliva test,plus I'm doing Blood test re:

my hormones,,,My Doc, had a compund suppository made up of Biest2.5

Estradiol 0.5, Estriol 2mg plus 4 drops of progestrone under my

tongue evry day,,

I was using Estriol 0.1% for a long time,, it stopped working,,

this Doc deals with the Bio-Identical harmones

Want you girls to know I'm in my 60's had everything removed, over 20

years ago,,,I really have No homones in my body left, & the dryness

is out of control..

I will keep you all updated

> Well, I went to my Lyme Dr. yesterday and we talked a lot about

> vulvodynia (which he fortunatly knows a lot about). We think its

part

> of my Lyme as it is listed as a symptom and so many women lymies

have

> this symptom. BUT I mentioned that there are many causes of

Vulvodynia

> (and that we could treat the sypmtoms but we should try to find and

> treat the actual cause) and I started listing them... when I got to

> hormone imbalance a light bulb went off (I could see it over his

> head). He mentioned a former patient of his that had horrible

hormone

> issues but blood tests always showed she was fine. He did a saliva

> test and it showed many imbalances, she's on bio-identical hormones

and

> doing so much better.

>

> So....I am doing the saliva test - have to wait for the right day

in my

> cycle. I fill up four tubes with salive (at least half way) at

certain

> times during the day and then send the test in.

>

> Have any of you had this test? It doesn't feel like I have hormone

> imbalances - in fact I've been having very nice cycles since I

> started " Adrenal Support " (an herbal tincture) and I'm also on

Armour

> Thyroid BUT I am happy to be doing the test to see if I indeed do

have

> an imbalance. I think (hope) I'm close to menopause so this could

> potentiall help.

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your input!

> >Molly, I too just did the saliva test,plus I'm doing Blood test re:

> my hormones,,,My Doc, had a compund suppository made up of Biest2.5

> Estradiol 0.5, Estriol 2mg plus 4 drops of progestrone under my

> tongue evry day,,

> I was using Estriol 0.1% for a long time,, it stopped working,,

> this Doc deals with the Bio-Identical harmones

> Want you girls to know I'm in my 60's had everything removed, over 20

> years ago,,,I really have No homones in my body left, & the dryness

> is out of control..

> I will keep you all updated