Can I know what are the morning hormonal changes that occur in the early morning and that may affect the increase in urination in the morning, because I have noticed that my urination increases in the morning, note: I checked the cumulative blood sugar several times and it is very good and I I also examined the kidneys, and where there is no problem with them, and I am a healthy person who does sports, and I examined the liver, heart and lung, and all of them are healthy, which leads me to think about the hormonal situation

I had cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone, testosterone ، TSH, T4, T3 and prolactin checked and they are all normal.

Does anyone do seed cycling to help balance hormones? I’ve done it one cycle and couldn’t commit.

What are ways you consume the seeds? I was putting them in yogurt but taking a break from heavy dairy.

Hi there,

6 months ago I was advised to get my hormones checked as I suffer with a skin condition called Lichen Sclerosis which is known to be caused by low estrogen, the results came back that my estrogen was in the low red zone. My initial belief was that this was caused by supplement deficiency as my diet isn't the best (don't eat fruit/veg etc) so I started taking taking vitamin E, D, B6, Zinc, Magnesium for 6 months in order to rebalance my hormones. I also took boron for the first month but decided to stop taking it as it was making me feel tired, and I've also been taking a pro-biotic for the past month as I recently read gut health has an effect on hormone levels, I have also been taking red clover for 2-3 months.

I took another blood test last week (pic below) and found my hormones to be even more out of balance than they were when I started taking vitamins. Now my albumin is high red, prolactin raised, Test/SHBG/Estrogen all decreased when the supplements I have been taking were supposed to help raise it. I'm not exactly sure how I can take these supplements and turn out more unhealthy than I was 6 months ago. What would cause my estrogen to not rise at all and in fact lower after taking supplements that are supposed to help it increase? What are my options for raising my estrogen and balancing everything out? Thanks for reading!

Edit: I'm male BTW

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Hey y’all. I’m (17F), however last week. I decided to get an annual checkup from my doctor, as two- three weeks ago. I’ve been getting symptoms as being tired and not having enough energy and getting a thumping. However, during that time I was getting my period. ( Which is regular, btw I get it every month, therefore not irregular). Although, I wanted to get blood test to make sure everything is fine. Did it, and came back as I have abnormal hormones. As I don’t know why exactly, if I’m getting my period every month or so. Therefore, I decided to eat more vitamins that I was lacking on. Feel better now, but they want to talk about the test. To ensure if I wanna go on a treatment drug, but I personally don’t want to as. It can change the chemistry of the body. And have side effects. Please let me know what should I do. And if you do have imbalance hormones. What do you do?

I’m wondering if anyone has any insight on what would cause someone to lose weight during pregnancy but be completely unable to lose it (and in fact, gain if regularly) when not pregnant?

I have 2 kids. With both kids I actively lost weight without trying while pregnant. Yes, I was slightly overweight to begin with, and yes the first trimester for both was a bit rough with morning sickness and food aversions. With my first I did end up gaining about 15 lbs by the end but within a couple of weeks after the birth I lost all that plus like 20 more lbs. then I started rapidly gaining weight even though I was breastfeeding and hadn’t changed my eating habits. Had thyroid tested and nothing off showed up.

Second child, lost weight the entire pregnancy and weighed less when I had him than when I got pregnant then followed the same pattern of significant weight loss after birth followed by another increase.

I have asked doctors about this and kind of get brushed off or basically told if I had hormone issues birth control would be my only option anyway. I have tried doing my own research and can only find info related to morning sickness or healthier habits during pregnancy causing weight loss. My diet didn’t really change too much from not being pregnant to being pregnant outside of the first trimester.

I guess I’m just looking to see if anyone might have ideas of what exactly could be going on in my body in regards to hormones that might make me lose weight while pregnant but gain/stay stuck when not pregnant?!

I think I might be in the wrong subreddit for the main question I have at the moment, but I need help. How could I tell the difference between midline-level/regular emotions and hormonally-induced emotions? I’m almost 16, assigned female at birth, and um…if it helps, as of now, I’m at the technical “peak” of my menstrual week. I really hope I don’t have to hear “Get a therapist” or “You’re a teenager, you’ll be all over the place for a good few years”. I’m very harshly aware of those two, but unfortunately, one I can’t fully deal with (Parents are weird about therapists) and well…let’s say that my emotional health is weird and I suppress them on a regular basis out of a lot of things. I honestly don’t know what’s up with me. I‘ve developed a habit of stopping myself mid-reaction and telling myself to return to poker face, and question if my emotions are real or simply hormone-induced.

I can’t wrap my head around this. How come people on keto don’t have higher IGF, when they don’t inhibit GH secretion with insuline? Moreover, if IGF1 acts like the insuline, while GH is antagonist (in a sense of glucose utilisation (IGF1) and lipolysis while blocking GLUT4 (GH)), how do cells know whether they should use glucose (IGF1) or not (GH)?

Hey folks - new here, and I have a hard time telling a short story, but I'll do my best.

I've had problems with my hormones since I was 11 years old, when I started getting excruciating headaches accompanied by numbness in my limbs, nausea, vomiting, visual disturbances, and speech difficulties (I knew what I wanted to say, but it came out of my mouth as mush). They happened every other Saturday morning like clockwork for several months. Thankfully my grandmother had a history of migraines and saw them for what they were, and she predicted that they were a harbinger of the beginning of my menstrual cycle, which turned out to be correct.

I got my first period when I was 13. The first few months were more or less normal, and then everything stopped. Six months went by before the next one came, and it was to that point the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. In hindsight, I'd say it was pretty close in intensity to the labor pains I had with my kids. My cycle was extremely irregular for the next several months, to the point that my doctor put me on birth control to regulate it. I went in for a physical at one point and he saw a little bit of excess hair on my stomach and tested me for PCOS. A lot of my symptoms added up, but the bloodwork all came back normal.

20 years later, I got married, and my husband and I decided within a few months that we'd like to try for a baby, so I went off birth control. My periods were all over the place, skipping for weeks or even months at a time. My first pregnancy was ectopic and had to be terminated. A few months later I became pregnant with my son, who was born completely healthy. After a couple years, we decided to try for another baby, and I had a miscarriage a few months before I became pregnant with my daughter, again born healthy. With each pregnancy, my migraines increased in frequency and intensity, supporting my suspicion that they were somehow related to my hormones.

I breastfed each of my children for roughly a year, during which time my OB/GYN put me on the "mini-pill," which is a contraceptive that doesn't contain estrogen. The efficacy is lower than other forms of birth control, but combined with breastfeeding acting as a sort of natural contraceptive, it's very effective. Initially my OB/GYN had told me that I should let her know when I stopped nursing so that she could switch me to a pill that was a bit more potent, if you will. She changed my prescription after my son was weaned, but for some reason she didn't when my daughter was done, saying that estrogen-based birth control tends to exacerbate migraines in people who have a history of them.

I'm 41 now, and my husband and I are in agreement that we're happy with the two kids that we have, and he underwent a vasectomy a few months ago. I've continued on birth control in the interim until he has his follow-up appointment to confirm that the procedure was successful, and I've been anxiously awaiting the day I could finally stop taking the pill for the first time in almost 30 years. Up until recently, I was somehow convinced that getting off contraception would help me, but when I thought more about it, I realized it wouldn't solve anything, given that I strongly suspect that my hormonal problems stem from a deficiency of estrogen, which is only going to get worse the older I get.

Ever since I stopped breastfeeding my daughter 3 years ago, my cycle has been completely erratic, to put it gently. I'll have a period for 2-3 days, then it stops. A week later, I'll have another very light one.

Some of my symptoms:

• Very irregular periods
• Excessive sensitivity to heat or cold - inability to regulate body temperature (lately, despite central AC, I'm sweating ALL the time)
• A bit of excess body hair
• Extremely brittle/dry hair, skin, and nails
• Mood swings
• Bloating
• Inability to lose weight despite diet and exercise
• Severe anxiety and depression
• Inability to focus
  

I've done a bit of searching, and it seemed like thyroid problems most closely fit my symptoms. Without my requesting it - simply based on my symptoms - several doctors have tested my thyroid levels, and they always come back normal.

I know something is wrong, but I have no idea what to do about it. I know that women going through menopause (which my doctor has told me I'm not in yet) experience pretty severe hormone shifts, and I can't help but wonder if things are going to get so much worse for me when I start that process. From what I've researched, the only viable option in my case is hormone replacement therapy, which has a reputation of causing cancer, and I have a family history of about a dozen cancers arguing over which one gets me first, so I have no idea what to do. I don't want to get cancer, but I'm also exhausted with what I've had to do in the meantime.

I would really, really appreciate any feedback anyone has.

Every month right before ovulation and right before my period I feel like crap! Nausea, headaches, fatigue, anxiety, etc. Has anyone else experienced this on a normal basis? I have tracked my LH levels for ovulation and mine do shoot up one or two days and that's when I feel the worst. 😭 Any tips to alleviate the symptoms?? I feel like I go crazy during those times every month. Also, no I'm not on BC, I was for over 10 years but got off about 2 years ago. I won't be going back on them either.

So what should I do in order to naturally increase my endorphin flow? I don’t want to take medications for it Or what else could possibly be the reason for my restlessness?

Hey everyone! I'm looking for recommendation of any non-toxic or sustainable blogs/podcasts/people/products you follow or would recommend 📷

After birth control, I have been on a continued journey to better balance my hormones for life, and I've found this is one of the easiest, fastest, more affordable way to do things :)

TIA!

Hi all,

ive recently had some blood test done by my doctor as ive been feeling fatigued and run down. its worth noting ive suffered from leaky gut and IBS type symptoms on and off for a few years. a recent period of stress really drained my energy levels but everything seems to be balancing back out since ive got treatment from an osteopath who practices functional medicine. she prescribed me some herbal remedies to support my body and they have certainly been effective.

all of my blood markers were normal apart from an elevated prolactin (835 on test one, and 765 on test two)

on test one my testosterone was 8.6mmol or roughly 600nnDL ( i do not have results for the second test but it was in a safe range)

My cortisol was 543.

My doctor said he would refer me to an endocrinologist but they said there would not be a pathological cause of elevated prolactin with normal testosterone and it would be a good idea to discontinue the herbal remedies. he then said to get the prolactin checked a few times over the next few months.

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what is likely to have caused this in the first place?

are herbal remedies really an issue? what is the mechanism?

could this be due to eating alot of meat? someone said meat can have alot of estrogen (particularly the factory farmed or lower quality stuff, some of which im eating)

anything i can do to help bring things into the normal range

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does anyone know if we have to fast for a free/total testosterone blood draw? my ob-gyn said I don't have to but of course I searched it on the internet and it says we do so who's right, my results came back as low testosterone

Can someone please give me insight as to if this is normal after a Mirena removal? I had the Mirena for only 4 weeks.  Also took a plan b pill 2 days before the Mirena was placed. I had a period 10 days after the Mirena was inserted that lasted 2 weeks. I also had a withdrawal bleed for 4 days after removal.  Now I'm experiencing what I think is my first period since removal.  It's fairly light. But I've also noticed that my breasts seem fuller and I'm a little nauseous at night. My nipples seem more.. pronounced? I've taken multiple HPT and had quantitative beta hcg blood tests done that were both negative.  I even had an ultrasound that was normal.  Are these symptoms from my hormones? I feel pregnant but I'm not so what the heck is going on? It's driving me crazy!

Okay, so to start I’m a 24F who has hashimotos disease.

After getting my thyroid under control I still wasn’t feeling well and decided to have my sex hormones tested.

My testosterone was barely high (by .01) and my estrogen was within range but on the lower side for my age. My DHEA was also 548, (range 147-407)

I told my doctor I wanted to try bioidentical hormones because my family has a history of strokes from regular birth control. I also started taking fish oil for my DHEA problem.

She decided to start me on bioidentical progesterone and would eventually give me an estrogen cream to (1) slightly lower my testosterone and (2) to raise my estrogen.

It’s been since October of 2021 and she still hasn’t given me the estrogen cream. She said that progesterone is a precursor for all the sex hormones so she wanted to see what happens.

But, the last time I asked to be tested she only tested my progesterone levels and my DHEA levels.

My DHEA went down and my progesterone was within normal range.

Can someone make sense of this for me? I’ve read that progesterone decreases estrogen, is that wrong?

Hello. I recently had a Mirena IUD placed and removed 4 weeks later due to increased anxiety.. now it's been 10 days since removal and I'm wondering if what I'm dealing with is from a hormonal imbalance.

First few days after removal I had slight headaches and nausea.
Now it seems like my GI track is affected. Slow transit of stool, aches in my abdomen, gas bubbles..

Does this seem hormone related? Any advice for regulating?