02-06-2013, 07:21
So I subtly asked for hormone tests at the doctor this week. I said, "you know I am tired a lot and I tend to blame everything that goes wrong on my heart condition. My friend said if your hormones are out of whack that can make you tired."
She told me that a hormone test would be useless because I was on the pill and that my levels should be fine. She did however agree to send me for a thyroid test because I was on amiodarone, a heart drug known to stuff up your thyroid.
So I was wondering if taking the combined pill pretty much meant that your estrogen and progesterone levels were basically fine, and therefore taking any herbs/ using creams etc to boost levels was unnecessary? When I was 18 I was initially started on a higher dose pill and within 6 weeks I was sick all the time with headaches and could hardly keep anything down and I was swapped to a lower dose.
Anyone else been told this about the pill? I don't think I have grown much on it.
She told me that a hormone test would be useless because I was on the pill and that my levels should be fine. She did however agree to send me for a thyroid test because I was on amiodarone, a heart drug known to stuff up your thyroid.
So I was wondering if taking the combined pill pretty much meant that your estrogen and progesterone levels were basically fine, and therefore taking any herbs/ using creams etc to boost levels was unnecessary? When I was 18 I was initially started on a higher dose pill and within 6 weeks I was sick all the time with headaches and could hardly keep anything down and I was swapped to a lower dose.
Anyone else been told this about the pill? I don't think I have grown much on it.