Hi Sammiejane
The hormone results are only a snapshot at that particular moment.
The oestrogen results will vary according to which arm you had the blood taken from compared to the arm you last applied the gel to - hopefully it was a different arm? Also the time since last gel application and how soon afterwards the blood was takn.
Anyway that seems a good reading if it is dealing with your symptoms. Not sure why FSH was mesured and also why it was this high because oestrogen usually suppresses it I thought? In your case it is the oestrogen that is most important and possibly the tesosterone too as you are in surgical meno.
Progesterone is totally irrelevant. I am puzzled why the docs recommended this was done? It is only needed to be measured to see if a woman is ovulating. Otherwise not needed. You don't need to increase oestrogen to offset progesterone; you don't actually need the progesterone although I realise yuou are using it more like a drug rather than a hormone ie for its sedative effect maybe?
You don't need testosterone for VA and pelvic floor as this should be controlled by systemic oestrogen and local oestrogen and if you still have some VA then maybe more local oestrogen needed?
Testosterone may help with libido but I wouldn't want to take it along with progesterone all the time as progesterone can suppress libido, so I have read. I would reduce your progesterone eg to every other day or even every 3 days if you really feel you want to continue with it, and then add in a small blob of T depending on which preparation you have been prescribed.
What does your doc advise?
Hurdity x
