Levels

[Tills]

Didn't there used to be a thread for posting up hormone levels?

I had my annual bloods yesterday. My E is a smidgeon below target range (400-600 pmol/L) for some reason. It might conversely be because my daily micro dose of testosterone (a petit pois size) was reduced and my body aromatises T into E. So the more testosterone I take, the higher my estradiol. Anyway:

Estradiol 394 pmol/L
Testosterone < 0.42 nmol/L

Serum sex hormone binding 47.4 nmol/L
Serum prolactin 136 mu/L

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[Lori Dee]

My pre-transition was T=589, E=29. (2019)

Oral E plus Spiro and Finasteride T=17-25, E=31-80

Stopped Finasteride, switched to E Patches T=18-41, E=108-153

Increased patch E dose, stopped Spiro, added Eligard injections plus Casodex and progesterone tabs
T=21-40, E=22-78

Switched to E injections, dropped Casodex, increased progesterone to 3x/day T=21, E=244-251

[kim99962]

My pre-transition was T=196, E=89 in 2022 last check T 124 E304

[Allie Jayne]

Didn't there used to be a thread for posting up hormone levels?
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Yes there was, it was run by our late friend PamelatransUK https://www.susans.org/index.php/topic,244695.msg2227406.html#msg2227406

Blood levels are fraught with potential inaccuracies. They are greatly influenced by the time of the draw (Trough, peak, or mid) interactions with other medications and supplements, and how well your receptors are functioning. They measure available hormones in your blood, but that has little meaning as you may not be up taking these if your receptors are not at their peak. Oral Estradiol creates another hormone, Estrone, which can out compete Estradiol for receptors, but Estrone has very little feminising effect., so its net effect is to block receptors. Ideally, we would measure the hormones the other side of the receptors to assess their effects, but this isn't possible, so blood levels are used, but they are not very indicative.

Hugs

Allie