20-06-2012, 15:21
Hello Isabelle,
Thank you for taking the time to find this article for me. Most of the time, you are the only one who will respond to me and I appreciate you very much. Maybe I'm just an odd duck that no one else has much in common with, I don't know, but again, you are very much appreciated.
I have looked up some of both of these members posts before because I saw some similarities with myself. I even got Dr. Lee's book suggested by Mel, and it has explained a lot of my questions.
Yesterday morning I used PC and it helped but I didn't use it again last night and I woke up miserable this morning. I can only describe it as feeling like a massive hang over, without the fun of the party before. My head is pounding, my stomach is upset, I'm in a complete fog, and literally exhausted. I don't know what I was thinking yesterday when I said that I was going to resume PM today, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole right now! You are right in suggesting leaving PM alone til maybe next cycle. I might use some milk thistle but I'm hesitant because I took it once during luteal and got a headache so I don't know yet.
I'm about to coin a new phrase for the "special" members like myself, this shall be known as a "rogue" cycle. There seems to be no explanation for the sudden increase in estradiol, much like a rogue wave over takes a floating vessel. And maybe I should suggest to Eve that we should have a new section for the forum dealing with perimenopause and the havoc it reeks with nbe. Maybe if we put posts dealing with these issues in one place, some patterns might emerge.
What is really puzzling me the most is when I didn't cycle PM, my cycle was never messed up, always regular, assuming I was actually ovulating. Of course, considering that it led to estrogen dominance, I probably wasn't. Another question that keeps popping up, which I posted about is what does tubal ligation do to progesterone levels? As usual, no one replied, but I did find this article:
http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory...-ligation/
I had the procedure at age 26. Then in my early thirties, I got cervical dysplasia and my doctor did something called a "freezing treatment" with liquid nitrogen and I had check ups every 3 months, then every 6 months, and finally back to yearly exams. Now, knowing that ED can cause dysplasia, and having had it soon after tubal ligation, I have to wonder.
So definitely no PM for me right now, I'm not really sure what I'll do. The PC hasn't completely kicked in yet and I'm still foggy. I guess I'll just play this out by symptoms and hope these rogue cycles are few and far between. PM is marketed as a help for menopausal symptoms, so maybe there is a way to regulate with it, but even so, I don't know if at that level it can be used for nbe. So I might explore other avenues. Maybe try one more cycle with PM since I did change this cycle with FG, and go back to PC and see if things are balanced. If not, then we'll just have to wait and see. That seems to be the story of my life these days, lol.
Sorry for rambling, don't hold it against me, remember the fog!
Thank you for taking the time to find this article for me. Most of the time, you are the only one who will respond to me and I appreciate you very much. Maybe I'm just an odd duck that no one else has much in common with, I don't know, but again, you are very much appreciated.
I have looked up some of both of these members posts before because I saw some similarities with myself. I even got Dr. Lee's book suggested by Mel, and it has explained a lot of my questions.
Yesterday morning I used PC and it helped but I didn't use it again last night and I woke up miserable this morning. I can only describe it as feeling like a massive hang over, without the fun of the party before. My head is pounding, my stomach is upset, I'm in a complete fog, and literally exhausted. I don't know what I was thinking yesterday when I said that I was going to resume PM today, I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole right now! You are right in suggesting leaving PM alone til maybe next cycle. I might use some milk thistle but I'm hesitant because I took it once during luteal and got a headache so I don't know yet.
I'm about to coin a new phrase for the "special" members like myself, this shall be known as a "rogue" cycle. There seems to be no explanation for the sudden increase in estradiol, much like a rogue wave over takes a floating vessel. And maybe I should suggest to Eve that we should have a new section for the forum dealing with perimenopause and the havoc it reeks with nbe. Maybe if we put posts dealing with these issues in one place, some patterns might emerge.
What is really puzzling me the most is when I didn't cycle PM, my cycle was never messed up, always regular, assuming I was actually ovulating. Of course, considering that it led to estrogen dominance, I probably wasn't. Another question that keeps popping up, which I posted about is what does tubal ligation do to progesterone levels? As usual, no one replied, but I did find this article:
http://www.natural-progesterone-advisory...-ligation/
I had the procedure at age 26. Then in my early thirties, I got cervical dysplasia and my doctor did something called a "freezing treatment" with liquid nitrogen and I had check ups every 3 months, then every 6 months, and finally back to yearly exams. Now, knowing that ED can cause dysplasia, and having had it soon after tubal ligation, I have to wonder.
So definitely no PM for me right now, I'm not really sure what I'll do. The PC hasn't completely kicked in yet and I'm still foggy. I guess I'll just play this out by symptoms and hope these rogue cycles are few and far between. PM is marketed as a help for menopausal symptoms, so maybe there is a way to regulate with it, but even so, I don't know if at that level it can be used for nbe. So I might explore other avenues. Maybe try one more cycle with PM since I did change this cycle with FG, and go back to PC and see if things are balanced. If not, then we'll just have to wait and see. That seems to be the story of my life these days, lol.
Sorry for rambling, don't hold it against me, remember the fog!