How do I get DIM to work for me?

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I get the right effect from anastrozole. But I can't seem to get DIM to work for

me. I just don't really respond to it. Like if my estrogen is high enough that

I'm starting to get itchy all over I'll try DIM. I get relief for about a couple

hours and then it wears off and all the high estrogen symptoms creep back. Or I

can take one .25 mg anastrozole dose that fights hard and it's game over for

estrogen for at least a day or two.

I get the funky urine from DIM and respond for a short time to a dose. I think

that means I'm absorbing it. But, for what it's worth, I'll note that I can NOT

take Indolplex due to the soy in it (I'm extremely reactive to soy). I take

Olympian Labs DIM which is just 100 mg DIM in a capsule. Again, the temporary

response and dark urine would suggest at least to me I do absorb it. But I guess

I'll go ahead and try DIM again specifically put in a spoonful of oil to see if

that works better.

So I'm trying to figure out what else in my body is whacked out for DIM not to

really work. I keep reading occasional stuff talking about methylation cycle

being broken in ones that don't use DIM well, but haven't been able to apply

things to me. I have tested homocysteine when I was just on some methyl B12

sublinguals and it was down to about a 5, which I believe is on the low end.

Methyl B12 shots or TMG don't seem to make DIM work better at all.

Anyway, I just want to be able to fall back on DIM in case I'm without

anastrozole in the future. Otherwise I'll just use anastrozole.

Thanks for any input on this.

-Nigel