Re: Hormone tests. Recommendations, please.

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It helps to have the normal range (usually that is given on the test

results)

J

>

> I just got my results back from hormone blood draw. Recommendations

are appreciated!

>

> This was done on the 10th day of my mens. cycle, so that's before

the characteristic rise

> in progesterone occurs. I am a pre-menopausal 30 year old female.

> This was taken around 9am in the morning, after breakfast, without

any Isocort, and

> before I started the Cortef (HC) that I'm now taking. Just today my

dr. had me start 20mg

> of Cortef in divided doses, with the option to slowly ramp up if I

feel 20 mg is not enough.

> In my next app. in 10 days, she'll talk to me about supplementing

other hormones.

>

> Symptoms: lots of hair loss (from scalp and pubic), very, very low

libido, spotting

> throughout cycle, very short cycles (like 22 days), agonizingly

painful periods that make it

> impossible for me to do anything but roll around the floor like a

pitiful glob of jello all day

> . . from these I supposed that I would get low hormone results like

this. I was right.

>

> DHEA-S (serum): 24 ug/dL

> Progesterone, Serum: <10 (sorry, it's not more specific than that)

> Testosterone, Serum (Total): 6.0 ng/dL

> Free T4, Direct, Serum: 1.37 ng/dl

> TSH: 1.885 uIU/mL

> Reverse T3: 267 pg/mL

> Estrogens, Total: 51 pg/mL

> Ferritin, Serum <1 L ng/mL

> Antithyroglobulin Ab <20 IU/mL

> Free T3, Serum: 2.8 pg/mL

>

>

> Thanks!

>

>

[Guest guest]

>

>

> It helps to have the normal range (usually that is given on the test

> results)

>

> J

>

__________Here below are the results again, this time with the lab's reference

ranges. Sorry

I left them off at first. Any thoughts, comments, ideas, recommendations are

invited and

appreciated.

DHEA-S (serum): 24 ug/dL (Adult Females 21 - 30y: 76-255)

Progesterone, Serum: <10 (<10-135 for cycle Days 7-12; this was my Day 10)

Testosterone, Serum (Total): 6.0 ng/dL (Adult Premenopausal Females: 10 - 55)

Free T4, Direct, Serum: 1.37 ng/dl (0.6 - 1.7)

TSH: 1.885 uIU/mL (0.350 - 5.500)

Reverse T3: 267 pg/mL (90 - 350)

Estrogens, Total: 51 pg/mL (Cycle Days 1-10: 61 - 394)

Ferritin, Serum <1 L ng/mL (10 - 291)

Antithyroglobulin Ab <20 IU/mL (0 - 40)

Free T3, Serum: 2.8 pg/mL (2.3 - 4.2)