[TibetanPrincess]

Apparently there's been only ever been one identified case of true estrogen insensitivity, and the article I read implies that the results of true estrogen insensitivity would be very severe and noticeable. I wonder if instead our bodies are just massively over compensating for the excess estrogen by pumping out loads of SHBG, or maybe down regulation is occuring at an unusually fast rate, or some other compensating mechanism I could never even think of. Of course, none of those other explains are necessary if it turns out that we do just have low E. Besides, lled and I are not the only women who have ever had a very muted response to PM. I wish I could remember their usernames. If low E is not the cause, than it really is a big mystery.

Mocha,
Good thing you have brought this up as this is on my mind often.
The strange thing is, I had low hormones after this growth spurt from PC and other herbs I had been taking and PM was one of them. It was the last one I tried and as a matter of fact, it did absolutely nothing for me in the three months I had taken it but it stopped my period.

I think I heard somewhere that if you take enough phyto estrogens, you can hault your own output of real hormones and these hormones are stronger right, so can you imagine when we stop these, we have low to no hormone output and we are losing our growth because of it. I think this may have possibly been the case with me as my MD was scratching his head as to why I had such overall extremely low hormone output for my age.

The last time I did any tests granted, was years before but I was regular and I had not spotted like I did when I came off the herbs this last time around. Two months later after the trial of PM, I became irregular and my boobs lost half of what I gained. But I was also on a extreme healthy diet with no meat for 21 days, who knows but this does make nothing but sense.