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When dosing DHEA I have tried 25 mgs BID and felt good for the first 3 weeks but then all of sudden my boobs starting hurting, getting tired, and crashing real hard (felt like it is pushing the adrenals to hard from elevated thyroid function. On the ulltra e2 reading was <2 so obviously it was a false reading. After 6 weeks in the DHEA is when my e2 symptoms went crazy and when I got tested again from sensitive 13-54 I was 41. With these 2 different test and same protocol how could there be much difference. After seeing the 41 estrodial at the trough I decided to reduce the DHEA because for some reason I my body has a problem with converting dhea to e2. If a person was going to take 25 -30 mgs a day would it be better to take smaller dosage 10mgs 8 hours apart then taking just 25 mgs in the morning.
The reason that I believe smaller more frequent dosages would keep the blood levels more stable with out the peak and valleys with just one morning dosage. I took 25 mgs a day for a long time and what might be interesting is to compare the 2 methods and see what gives better results.I’ve read the half life of DHEA to be short, so that might be a good idea.
This test seems inconsistent.
@chaos 133 wrote:
I’ve read the half life of DHEA to be short, so that might be a good idea.
This test seems inconsistent.
It put me through 2 years of misery of rollercoaster of emotions and weight going up and down 20 lbs of muscle
@hardasnails1973 136 wrote:
It put me through 2 years of misery of rollercoaster of emotions and weight going up and down 20 lbs of muscle
The DHEA??
@hardasnails1973 140 wrote:
The irregular e2 tests.
Do you feel the test is inconsistent and not allowing you to monitor your estrogen? What is the most reliable test?
@chaos 144 wrote:
Do you feel the test is inconsistent and not allowing you to monitor your estrogen? What is the most reliable test?
Several of our patients have had irregular readings.
Each time I tried to adjust the dosage of adex reading according to ultra e2 symptoms got worse. When dealing with clincal testing I keep all variables consistant and change one variable at time. Just on 25 mgs of DHEA with adex m,w,f .25 my dhea 235 was alittle low and e2 was < 12 which is mid range (goals on any kind of blood test). After 3 weeks of dhea at 25 mgs BID and adex EOD my e2 was <2 ultra sensitive then and I felt ok, then symptoms started coming on about 6 weeks after being on the same protocol and I retested e2sensitive essay and it was 41!! I had bad ED, gyno was swollen, was losing muscle , mass and feeling bloated, lack of blood flow to muscles, hair falling out. So I decide to just cut back on DHEA to 10 mgs TID and to keep adex at .25 mgs EOD and ride it out. about 2 weeks in this i felt great (great erections, good sleep, good energy) for about 3 days then I ended up getting joint pains, memory and severe fatigue and horrible muscle spasms, emotional numb. How come people can take 1 mgs of adex every day and not have any issue, but when a person takes .25 too much can send them into a tail spin. When I began to look at the symptoms alot of the e2 symptoms are similar to copper deficiency symptoms which could be possible over lapping. I plan on getting a 24 hour urine copper done to check this since both copper and ceruoplasm are right at the edge of being low.
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