OT hormones

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Wow Amy thanks for your input. I never swell or retain fluids and after

reading this I wonder if it is not the pregnenolone. Swelling just started

in the last 2 days in my feet and I have only used pregnenolone for four or

five days. I never had anything with the DHEA or testosterone.

The reason I need estrogen is because 4 years ago I had a huge amount of fat

removed from my thighs and upper arms. They actually cut it of my legs. I am

pretty normal elsewhere but have always had these huge legs and it looked

like I had big biceps The next year is when I started with the bad flashes.

Otherwise I had lots of estrogen in the fat.

How do you do your hormones and do you think its better.. how, than the

cream??

Look into getting the book on adrenals and check out the web site for Future

Formulations.

Cooky

I'm getting ready to test my adrenals again (via cortisol test). If the

next test comes back crappy (which is what I expect) then I will start

something... again. I've tried Cortef and an adrenal extract ... I

thought the benefit was limited or negligible.

The Armour Thyroid (4 grains) has been tremendous support to adrenals,

as has progesterone and testosterone. Like you, if I don't take prog

and test, I feel more tired in a few days. It appears I have enough

estrogen, don't need estrogen. I take a super-duper tiny dose of

something with estrogen in it, as it seems to make the progesterone work

better.

I have a hard time with pregnenolone & DHEA as both will make me swell &

give me an edema type reaction. The theory is that somehow I'm getting

an estrogen reaction from these... but just a theory. I can take 1 mg

drop of each maybe once per week - but that's it. Even though I test

very low in both of those.

I started hormones, because apparently I just don't make them on my own.

Except for estrogen ... I test in the middle for estrogen. Thanks for

the recommendation for adrenal support. I've done the syringe bio's

that you describe, and now my hormone are still bio's, but not in

syringe. I'm using Dr. Lee sources for progesterone. I use 7 mg of

prog daily except when on period.

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