Community Conversation => Transitioning => Hormone replacement therapy => Topic started by: Tills on October 18, 2024, 03:14:41 AM Return to Full Version
Title: Levels
Post by: Tills on October 18, 2024, 03:14:41 AM
Post by: Tills on October 18, 2024, 03:14:41 AM
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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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
xx
Title: Re: Levels
Post by: Lori Dee on October 18, 2024, 09:43:14 AM
Post by: Lori Dee on October 18, 2024, 09:43:14 AM
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
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
Title: Re: Levels
Post by: kim99962 on January 19, 2025, 02:24:22 PM
Post by: kim99962 on January 19, 2025, 02:24:22 PM
My pre-transition was T=196, E=89 in 2022 last check T 124 E304
Title: Re: Levels
Post by: Allie Jayne on January 19, 2025, 03:06:50 PM
Post by: Allie Jayne on January 19, 2025, 03:06:50 PM
Quote from: Tills on October 18, 2024, 03:14:41 AMDidn'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
Title: Re: Levels
Post by: kat2 on March 31, 2025, 01:15:51 PM
Post by: kat2 on March 31, 2025, 01:15:51 PM
results can be so misleading, I tend to go off actual results that i can see
Title: Re: Levels
Post by: Annaliese on April 04, 2025, 03:24:51 PM
Post by: Annaliese on April 04, 2025, 03:24:51 PM
I had my levels done in February 2025.
Pre transistion was,
Estradiol 27
Testoterone 470
Serum sex hormone binding 48.70
I think this is a good place to document this.
I was prescribed .1mg/day twice weekly estradiol. My next test is 1 May 2025. I will get reavaluated on 25 May. We'll see we I go from there, Annaliese
Pre transistion was,
Estradiol 27
Testoterone 470
Serum sex hormone binding 48.70
I think this is a good place to document this.
I was prescribed .1mg/day twice weekly estradiol. My next test is 1 May 2025. I will get reavaluated on 25 May. We'll see we I go from there, Annaliese