Low estrogen or estrogen dominance? A question NOBODY has been able to answer!

Women's health
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So, let me give you 2 sets of symptoms......I really hope someone has an answer to this!

Day 1: ravenous on waking, appetite insatiable (yet nothing hits the spot as taste buds completely haywire), elevated, emotional, irritable, noise and smell sensitive, angry, nauseous, headache. An occasional mini hot flush/temperature change. Libido up. (this can then go on for a few days/week at a time)

Day 2: hot flushes on waking, zero appetite, temperature swings all day and all of a sudden too anxious to walk down the stairs (whereas yesterday was running down them in a rage whilst starving), raging tinnitus, itchy skin (this will usually only last for 2 days at a time before reverting to above). Zero libido. Completely calm and not raging or irritable in the slightest. Increased thirst.

There seems to be no in-between here - it's either a Day 1 or a Day 2, and they can switch at the drop of the hat.

My question is - on which of these days is estrogen at its lowest? Both days contain symptoms of low estrogen.

2 periods in past 13 months. Currently hitting day 100 since last one (prior to that had gone almost 300 days before 3 day period - you can imagine how welcome that was). Around the 200 day mark last time things improved significantly and "Day 1s" were few and far between.

I know the classic symptoms of low estrogen so believe that the Day 2 example above is likely the lowest estrogen day, but can you still be estrogen dominant after years of skipped/missed periods? I know progesterone is likely to have pretty much disappeared by now but still - Day 1 seems very unusual for so few periods doesn't it? Especially the libido bit? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong!!

Not on HRT. Just take supplements.

Thanks!

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Hi,

I sure wish I could answer this as it’s been one of my questions for 4 years, when I turned 40 everything changed.

No doctors have been helpful and most feel lab work is useless because of how frequently hormones fluctuate. In addition, "I am too young for menopause " so no doctor feels my hormones are the problem.

I have experienced all the symptoms you mentioned and then some. The only time I have any libido is around when I should be ovulating, but I don’t think I ovulate much anymore so the body is out of whack trying to ovulate or something. Ovulation is when estrogen should rise. But testosterone levels can also fluctuate throughout the month and affect so much (like irritability, rage, restlessness).

To answer your question, I think all of this can be BOTH, estrogen dominance with low estrogen. Our estrogen can be diminishing but if the progesterone is even lower, we could be stuck with all the symptoms. Factor in testosterone levels fluctuating and it’s quite a mess.

Good luck to all of us!

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I believe that estrogen can be all over the place, until you actually hit menopause. It’s good news that after about 200 days, you started to feel better! I have experienced all of the above, and it totally sucks! I completely understand having emotions change “at the drop of a hat”; that’s what’s been happening to me for over two years. I went 101 days without a period, and in the last six months, my periods come any time between 25 and 36 days. I so want this to be over!

The rage, crying, and subsequent frustration are horrible!

Message me any time. I would be happy to chat:)