Lower estradiol, normal progesterone : but still mastodynia (cycle related breast pain ??? )
hey
i ve already posted this on the PMS forum but nobody replied. It seems kinda inactive since weeks. I thought maybe some of u have some knnowledge about hormones. And since fibrocystic breasts might come before breastcancer i thought i d not be that wrong here....
if u think this doesnt fit into this forum at all...i m sorry.... then just delete it.
I just cant seem to find someone who can explain me if there is a connection.
copied it :
Hello!
I wonder if there is someone who has some knowledge about Estrogen and Progesterone levels. And their ratio.
Isnt it usually so that high estrogen levels cause PMS ? or is that wrong?
almost 3 years ago i went vegan. After a year i ve developed mastodynia. Cycle related. So it only ever happend after my ovulation or a week before my period.
Also my TSH levels trippled .
I did research and started taking
Iodine (brownstein protocol) and after another year it finally was all fine. Boob pain was gone and my TSH was back to 1,9.
I kept taking
Iodine but since 2 months my PMS Mastodynia is back. I also really feel when i have my ovulation. (i knnow some gynacologists say thats impossible) but well i do.
Last month and this month right after ovulation my boobs (mainly the ourter quarter of my right boob towards the armpit) started to hurt.
I ve had my progesterone and estrogen (estradiol) levels checked in march 2014. Saliva test .
Back then i ve still had mastodynia but been on
Iodine already for about half a year.
My results been following :
Estradiol : 2,5 pg/ml (lab range : 0,8-10,8) .... taken in the second half of my cycle
Progesterone : 345 pg/ml (lab range 100-450)
Estradiol/Progesterone ratio : 119 (100 being minimum)
NOW i am asking myself. How can i have mastodynia with such low estradiol (estrogen? ) levels.
Isnt one supposed to be estrogen dominant to have PMS symptomes???
Also i have my period regularely, take no pill, have no IUP whatsoever. I am almost 36 y/o btw.
I have no dry vagina either or cant name any other symptome that ppl with lowewr estrogen levels suffer from.
I d like to know what u guys think about my levels and how my maastodynia is explained while having such "lowish" estrogen levels.
Thx in advance
(dont mind the typos pls. First of i am not english and second i am typing on my ipad )
best regards
STEPHY