I wonder if for some of us Oestradiol in HRT is just not right and we should be focusing on Estrone which is the hormone we continue to make and is much gentler. I think there are Estrone products available but I know nothing else about it. Just a thought.
K.
Hello Kathleen,
Sorry to hear you are suffering for so long. I spent 1,5 years trying different forms of estrogen: patches, spray and gel, but they all make me feel even more ill than I was. For the last 6 weeks I am on estriol and surprisingly I feel great on it. I can’t explain why it is happening, it looks like my body doesn’t need a lot of estrogen anymore to function properly and estradiol is too strong for me now. I am post meno and my last blood test was estradiol 34, which is very low. Despite having such low estrogen level, my body seems to be happy on low dose of weak estriol rather than on traditional HRT with strong estradiol. It doesn’t require using progesterone with it, is too weak to stimulate uterus. Although I use face serum as a source of estriol and it contains progesterone too.
I don’t know about estrone, this hormone is produced by fat cells in post meno, it likes fat, this is why post meno ladies have bigger waist
There is also some info on internet that estrone causes cancer. So I can’t really comment about estrone products, have never came across with it.