Hi all,
I know estradiol lab values are highly individual, and a good value for one person doesn't mean it's the same for other women.
But, I'd really like your advice / experience here, for what I feel is an imbalance between my lab value and symptoms.
I've written elsewhere about my struggles over the past months, trying to get to the right dose. I've been increasing from initial 1 daily pump of Estrogel in March (when all the worsening of symptoms started), and now reaching 3 pumps/daily. Had lots of back and forth along the way, as I tried first to go too fast (or at least that's what I think the problem was) and was getting bad reactions from increasing the gel. So I've increased very gradually, first adding half pump, then another half, another half and finally a few days ago got to a dose of 2 pumps pm/1 pump am. As most of my symptoms have gradually eased along the way, I've assumed I'm on the right path, though I've still suffered from really bad anxiety which started at the same time as the other worsening of symptoms this year.
Now, strangely, as I've finally reached the target dose which was aligned with gynae, the past week has been simply horrible from anxiety perspective.
I've felt worst than in months, so I had my estradiol level tested yesterday. I felt I had to understand what's going on and if I'm now getting already too high on the estrogen and that could explain the sudden worsening of anxiety.
The result came today and to my surprise, reading was 241 pmol/L. From what I've understood, isn't this quite good value actually?
Or at least not particularly high. The blood was taken 12 hours after my evening dose, so it should reflect some kind of base level I suppose.
Now I'm really unsure what to do next. I already had to cut down the dose again to 1.5pm/1 am, as I simply couldn't function yesterday. But I can't understand how the value 241 can be too high -or maybe its still too low and I should further increase and push through the anxiety.
All experiences and advice here would be so much appreciated as I'm clueless! Thanks xx