09-11-2011, 20:42
Hi shortcake,
The experience with PM cycles is not yet advanced enough to help you with this. Frankly, I expect PM will make the problem at the end of your period much worse.
What you experience at the end of your period are most likely symptoms of estrogen dominance, but there is also a slight chance that it's estrogen deficiency. If you bet on dominance, it would be best to start PM two or more days after the end of your period. If you bet on deficiency, it would be better to take a low PM dose after day 25 through your period. If you get the bet wrong, the problem will get much worse.
My gut feel is that after your period, when your natural estrogens are on the rise, you get estrogen dominance symptoms because your natural progesterone will not start rising until day 11. This is what normally happens in a cycle, only you appear to be sensitive to it. So I would try something that may look counter-intuitive: fenugreek or licorice, to get a little progesterone or phyto-progestin to balance the increasing estrogens.
At the end of your cycle, you clearly need an anti-androgen. Since licorice has one too, that might be a good choice at this time too.
The experience with PM cycles is not yet advanced enough to help you with this. Frankly, I expect PM will make the problem at the end of your period much worse.
What you experience at the end of your period are most likely symptoms of estrogen dominance, but there is also a slight chance that it's estrogen deficiency. If you bet on dominance, it would be best to start PM two or more days after the end of your period. If you bet on deficiency, it would be better to take a low PM dose after day 25 through your period. If you get the bet wrong, the problem will get much worse.
My gut feel is that after your period, when your natural estrogens are on the rise, you get estrogen dominance symptoms because your natural progesterone will not start rising until day 11. This is what normally happens in a cycle, only you appear to be sensitive to it. So I would try something that may look counter-intuitive: fenugreek or licorice, to get a little progesterone or phyto-progestin to balance the increasing estrogens.
At the end of your cycle, you clearly need an anti-androgen. Since licorice has one too, that might be a good choice at this time too.