Re: comparing estrogel to estradot and blood test results/oily hair and skin

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I have not had oily hair and skin but then I am prone to dry skin and

hair in first place. Only time I had slightly oily skin was when I

took too much DHEA, then I got slight forehead acne.

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> I had exactly the same problem. Dr. G said I was dumping the

estragel in

> some way. It made me very nervous, almost in a panic, for the

first hour after

> I took it. My measured estradiol level on the estragel was 27!

It is

> higher on the Vivelle patch, not a great deal higher, but enough

to show that I am

> now absorbing it. HOWEVER, even a .25 difference in dose up makes

my hair

> and skin VERY oily. Anyone else have this problem?

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> Gael

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> In a message dated 3/14/2008 7:40:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

> lillypilates@... writes:

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> I was using about 6 mg of estrogel a day and at peak time 3 hours

after

> second dose of day my blood result was 103. This was really low

> considering how much estrogel I was using.

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> I switched to 4 estradots or total 4 mg of estradiol and my blood

work

> came back at 114, so I feel my body did not absorb estrogel as

> efficiently as the estradot, so now I will try to use less

estradots.

> My SHBG has gone up from 70 to 114 so I need to lower dose some. I

> feel better though and don't have those weird cold and warm

flashes on

> my back. I really think my body absorbed the estrogel too fast and

> then deleted it somehow. The estradot gives me steadier dose.

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