Re: DHEA, was Re: Val Harley - Can you please help me out with my Adrenal Fatigue?

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>>I have problems with DHEA at 6.25 mg a day. And my DHEA is low. I think

in me as yet, it doesn't convert " properly " . I can't take estrogen

either, nor progesterone.<<

What happens when you take estrogen, and what kind have you tried?

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> What happens when you take estrogen, and what kind have you tried?

I just remember stopping because I began to feel worse. Last yearI tried

Vagifem. Used to be on premarin many years ago, but stopped it after 5

years because it didn't relieve hot flashes (my main concern) except at

the highest dose, and my doctor told me I couldn't keep on at that high

a dose. After that I used black cohosh, plant estrogens (shudder--soy),

wild yam cream and the like for a while but gradually stopped those too,

as they didn't seem to do much.

FWIW, I tried a progesterone cream last year too, as I had symptoms of

estrogen dominance, but that also made me feel worse. I may have tried

the vagifem along with the progesterone cream also, but don't really

remember.

Sorry not to be able to detail symptoms.

sol

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[Guest guest]

I forgot to say vagifem is estradiol 25mcg per each vag tablet. Is that

a synthetic or what?

sol

wrote:

> What happens when you take estrogen, and what kind have you tried?

I just remember stopping because I began to feel worse. Last yearI tried

Vagifem.

[Guest guest]

Sounds liek your hot flashes mayhave been adrenal and not low estrogen,

have you had bblood testing done for it? I was on 2.5mg Premarin for 25

years! Yeah high dose but it was all that worked fdor me then now I am

just on 6.2 and it seems to be plenty.

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From what I can find, Vagifem is a synthetic estrogen that is

considered bioidelntical.

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I hope you meant .62 ?

I imagine my hot flashes could have easily been adrenal, as they have

never stopped. They got less over the years, and were lessened on

premarin high dose, but the side effects were not good, and the doc said

stop so I did, back then I did what doctors told me to do mostly, I was

just barely beginning to take things into my own hands, just barely.

sol

wrote:

> Sounds liek your hot flashes mayhave been adrenal and not low estrogen,

> have you had bblood testing done for it? I was on 2.5mg Premarin for 25

> years! Yeah high dose but it was all that worked fdor me then now I am

> just on 6.2 and it seems to be plenty.

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Yeah .625 Sorry didn't mean to give a heart attack! LOL

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[Guest guest]

Val said that's what it sounds like, and I think so too, now, since I

keep reading that hot flushes are a low cortisol symptom. 13 to 18

years ago, I barely knew I had adrenals. Years ago I wrote to an online

question/answer site at some eastern hospital and asked why I still was

having hot flushes even though I wasn't taking any hormones, and

theoretically the flashes should have stopped after a few years, and was

told " some women just always continue to have hot flashes " .

LOL,

sol

MsSquarepants wrote:

> Do you think your hot flashes were more of an adrenal symptom then? I know

> when I first crashed my hot flashes were horrendous, especially at night.

> Dr. mentions this as it relates to adrenals in his book too. Cheri

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