Hi lled,
I'm not sure how many people track their symptoms as conscientiously as you do.
They'd better. I had a horrible night. Over the last two days, I increased maca from 4,000 mg to 5,000 mg and 6,000 mg. Just before that, I had decreased my FG from 4,000 to 3,000 mg. Just last night, I upped hops slightly.
Last night, I woke up every two hours. Headache in my neck, night sweats, foggy thinking, growing pains in my thighs, bloated, painful intestines, gas. Yesterday, I had a pimple behind my left armpit, and this morning another one behind my right armpit.
I wanted to decrease FG after my measuring day. I am determined to slim my waist, but it's going very fast, and the weight loss that goes with it seems to stop my NBE growth. Susan is positive that going back to 4,000 mg FG is one of the first things I should do to get out of what happened last night. The gas last night was after decreasing FG, so FG doesn't always cause gas.
Susan also found this list of symptoms of too much DHEA:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8440&pid=35105#pid35105
DHEA causes insulin resistance, so I'm going down to 4,000 mg maca immediately.
Going down in maca may stop the acne. If it doesn't, I need to up hops. But my 200 g of hops will run out around the 2nd week of September. That means I have been taking 3,000 mg, instead of 2,000 mg (I just measure 2 tablespoons). Because 3,000 mg is the stalling limit, I will only increase hops very slowly.
Last night's symptoms were very much about estrogen dominance. I hope increasing FG will produce just enough progesterone to help. If not, hops stays at 3,000 mg.
I don't want to go above 4,000 mg FG either. If I would do it slowly, it might work. But if FG increases progesterone too much, I will end this ramp up early in October with my ultimate target waist size, but with no breasts
Susan came up with the idea of adding lecithin, bee pollen, or royal jelly:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8440&pid=35117#pid35117
The lecithin may help with the sleepiness and depression from hops. But I still have to check if I won't be getting too much choline.
I still need something for growth hormone and growth factors in November. Bee pollen or royal jelly sounds much more attractive than some synthetic chemical like GABA or 5-HTP. More reading to do