Hi Gilla999, bless you this is what happened to me with the finger **** tests and I spoke with the company about it and if you use gel or anything that has Estrogen in it like vagifem etc it can stay in the tissues and they recommend 4 weeks wearing gloves to apply hrt before using a finger **** test but even then it may be raised. Mine came out at 11000 something. I don’t know if you remember from my other posts about blood levels but in peri they can have massive fluctuations and it is like chasing a moving target to try and have blood drawn when not fluctuating. Mine ranged from 400 to over 5000pmol over 6 tests over the course of 10 days, I wanted to prove it was not really high and that they were fluctuations because I felt really ill all of the time and the only way was to prove was to do that exercise for my peace of mind.
Lenzetto is not capable of delivering much Estrogen, I contacted the manufacturer about it and the studies show blood pmol range between 37.8 - 114.53 for 1 spray, 60.2 - 169 pmol for 2 sprays and 69.38 - 177.67 for 3 sprays and the individual absorption varies massively. Each dose is not comparable with the first as you will see from the above figures, it’s the same for all the other estradiol preparations. I don’t absorb transdermal very well if at all.
I hope this helps, it has driven me mad over the last 2 years.
Go by symptoms, if it’s helping stick with it. The British menopause society state that 3 sprays of Lenzetto is roughly the equivalent of 2 pumps of Estrogen or 50mg patch. Again absorption is very individual.