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Re: estrogen » hildi

Posted by katekite on July 18, 2002, at 18:51:34

In reply to Re: estrogen is helping (and I'm only 31)-Kate, posted by hildi on July 18, 2002, at 11:46:51

Hi Hildi,

First of all I feel for what you're going through! After a while when you have physical symptoms it is almost impossible not to be depressed and anxious about it, and then its impossible to know if the mood etc is just due to frustration over the physical stuff or if it's its own entity. It gets so so complicated.

Estrogen and progesterone vary widely over the day and month so its quite possible in someone who is borderline (and I mean borderline in a medical way, LOL) that you could come up normal and yet still have problems.

Once you take a birth control pill, though, it does suppress your own estrogen etc and it can take a long time after you come off of it to get your own normal rhthym back. Which is to say it really screws up testing. In a way I've done a bad thing by starting with treatment over testing. The obgyn I saw wants me to do testing after I go off the active pills before I start the next pack of pills.

If your tests come back normal and you don't want to do more testing, and you still are suspicious and want to try it you could always see a different doc or a different nurse practitioner or gynecologist and lie, saying you are on them already and just need a refill. If it didn't help you would just throw them out and have wasted the money.

I don't know -- that would by lying, basically. Then again in this era of screwed up overburdened medical system where each doc has 3000 patients (the average) it seems we don't have the luxury of trusting our medical care to anyone but ourselves, in the end. Some of the specialists I have seen have been nice, but none have even remotely considered the idea of taking responsibility for my case (ie they don't even consider calling the other specialists to see what they think about other symptoms or possible treatment or tests). They can't see the forest for the trees, I think.

I saw my pdoc today and he gave me the name of a reproductive endocrinologist/psychiatrist in Boston (a day's drive at least) -- the closest person that he thinks is truly qualified to deal with psychiatric problems that are caused or weirdly worsened by female hormonal issues. Wow -- I never imagined that one would have to travel that far (I'm close to several really big cities and Boston is not one of them). What does that say about the general knowledge level among regular docs and pdocs?

kate


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