Some menopausal women become resistance to estrogen, but for some a cure is possible

General Discussion
#1

I talked to my alternative doctor about the androgen allergy (or resistance) that most of us have, for which increasing T or DHT makes you worse. He said that some of his female patients have a similar problem, but with estrogen. Specifically, they enter menopause and they want to start estrogen replacement. But, (guess what?), by supplementing estrogen the menopausal symptoms become worse and worse (hot flashes and so on), which obviously nobody expects.

Once my doctor runs out of other options and all hormones and minerals are in check, he treats them with some homeopatic remedy, consisting in low potency estrogen. After this treatment, not all, but some of these women respond well to estrogen replacement. He suggested that some of us could try the analog for my problem, a low potency testosterone (see http://www.mhpvitamins.com/id113.html). Note that they don’t sell low potency DHT.

Do you think that what happens to these women is similar to what happened to us via DHT deprivation?

[Size=4]I posted this in General, and not in Natural remedies, because the main point here is to seek a connection between the possible downregulation of the estrogen receptors in menopausal women and our androgen receptors. Anyway, feel free to move it where you think it best fits[/size]

#2

I would say quite possible. people who are naturally low in Testosterone or who got hypo after the use of steroids have no problems but we who starved their receprtos to death by stopping their food (DHT) are having problems. I think if a woman is put on HRT right before her menupause begins may not have insenstivity problem. Receptors will not die during transition.

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#3

so are you trying him? or have already started his treatment?

#4

First, I’ll try to correct all the other problems (thyroid, minerals, heavy metals, etc…). Then, I might give it a try.

I just posted this because I was amazed to know that this “allergy to your own hormones” is actually something that may already exist for other hormones (in this case, estrogen). Therefore, it’s worth looking into existing therapies that address this issue.