Hormone tests. Recommendations, please.

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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!