Re: Am I the youngest one here???/ Possible strategies

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Hi and welcome,

I had early menstrual irregularities also. (I'm middle-aged now). When I stopped the pill at 22, I got terrible headaches for years. The pill aggravated an existing imbalance while masking the symptoms.

As I see it, you can select one of several strategies:

1. Get a complete diagnostic work-up from somebody like Eugene Shippen, MD in PA.

2. Try to figure out what is suppressing your estrogen. You may not be in "ovarian failure."

3. Find a doctor who will treat you by trial and error, factoring in thyroid and iodine because defective sex-hormone metabolism may be an result of thyroid deficiency.

4. Zava, PhD, once told me that the worst thing you can do a young woman with ovarian problems (cramps,PMS) is to put them on oral contraceptives.

5. Find out what's going on days when YOU FEEL GOOD. Have a lab order on hand and go within a couple of days of feeling good. Also, it's a clue that taking the Olive Oil E made you feel better. Trying E consistently for a month might provide more info.

6. Find out what's going on when you feel bad. I was always worst on days AFTER my period when my estrogen was low (or "in withdrawal" as one brilliant doctor finally nailed it.)

Lynne

Hello!I'm a newbie to this list and also to BHRT at the tender age of 26. So here it is in a nutshell (of a large nut):Took the bc pill for about 10 yrs (age 14-24, started due to severe cramps)Had horrible PMS on the pill and what evolved into SEVERE CRAZY INSANE PMS when i stopped it (though my periods have always been like clockwork)Discovered that not drinking coffee and taking a drop of my boyfriend's mom's olive oil E on the bad days helped with the PMSFinally saw a doctor that sort of knows what she's talking about (though its a 4 hour drive away) and discovered this:day 8 estradiol: 36day 20 estradiol: 75 progesterone: 8.2and i think total testosterone was 17yeah... sounds menopausal no?so today i am taking 1 mg of E (though i was prescribed .25mg and she wanted to put me on biest and i said no thank you to the estriol) and 2.5 T and 0mg P (i was prescribed me 200mg P for my luteal phase and after trying out 25mg and not being able to put on a bra b/c my nipples hurt so much I said to myself hell no - though i have not told her yet)also I am on 25mcg T3 and 5mg cortisol in the morning.I just started all this fairly recently so i have a lot of balancing to do ... so far i am ok but i often CRASH like a ton of bricks in the early afternoon and my last period was a bit strange - light bleed, no bleed, heavy bleed, no bleed, heavy bleed etc.. and it lasted 8 days. hm. SO..... the question: does anyone know anything about women this young suffering from hypoovarian function? I am assuming that the bc pill caused this but i am not sure and was wondering if anyone else out there has any info for pre-pre-menopausal ladies.... or can someone's ovaries already start to decline in their 20's? I started menstruating at age 11 but it still seems a little ridiculous. Vliet is the only lit i can find on younger women's bhrt (but she doesnt say too much) and the rest of the world seems to be in the dark. i wonder how many other women my age are having the same problems and would never think to check their hormones! ok thats all folks. thanks!

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