Blood Test Homone Level Results - Scared and More Confused

[Kate]

Maybe I'm going at this the wrong way? I'm keep looking for my therapist to recommend an endo. But she doesn't seem to have many recommendations for endo's with hormone and transgendered knowledge. Which is surprising since she has been treating transgenderd people for 25 years.

Is there another way I might go about this?

I didn't like any of my therapist's recommendations, so I went to my insurance provider's web site, printed our a list of MDs within 50ish miles, and started making phone calls.

Everyone pretty much said, "Sorry, we'd like to help, but you should really see a specialist for this."

I'd about given up hope, when I finally listened to my wife and called her doctor (also within my insurance plan)... and was shocked when they said, "Sure, we can help you. We've treated a number of transsexuals."

So I made them my general doctor as well (keeping all my medical concerns in one place), went for a consultation (HRT letter in hand), and received my prescriptions

Kate

[Gwen C]

I just got my hormones blood work test results back and I am pretty upset. (but I'm probably overreacting as usual) My estrogens level came back at 3 to 4 times the normal range high for a male and my testosterone levels also came back high for my age group. I'm 54 and they came back at the level of a 21 year old. No wonder I'm always so conflicted.

This test was ordered by my psychiatrist so I haven't seen an endocrinologist yet. I'll make that appointment tomorrow. But my psychiatrist showed concern in how to treat this condition in both homones. So it scared me a little. I also sent these results to my gender therapist that I will see on Wednesday.

Has anyone else seen or experienced these types of levels? Or been treated sucessfully?

Gwen

First, I have an appointment next week with an Endocrinologist that has 25 years of experience in treating the transgendered. So I'm looking forward to that meeting.

The interesting part is that my Psychiatrist had me do the blood work a second time and the results came back quite different. This time my testo level was half as high as it was lthe first, time which is more normal for someone my age, and the estro level was just a little higher than the norm for my age. So I thought that confirmed that the first test was in error.

But maybe not.......both my Physchiatrist and Gender Therapist say that this may be because I am on some kind of hormone cycle. Something like what a GG goes through. Wow! That was a surprise.

So, I'll just wait and see what the Endo says and take it from there.

Learn something new every day.

Gwen