So my lab results from all that bloodwork I had done last month finally came in the mail yesterday. Oh, what an telling story they do tell, and I think I'm one step closer to figuring out what is wrong with me. I'm no doctor and I obviously will be seeking more qualified opinions on this, but I think I may be on to something here- you see, the reason that my lab results came back "normal" appears to be because all of my hormone levels are within "normal" ranges... for like a woman who is in her 50's. My progesterone was super low, FSH & LH WAY low, and surprisingly, Estrogen was also extremely low. Like, scary low. Like post-menopausal low. Like ovarian failure low. Estradiols? What are those? Apparently my body has no clue how to make them.
All this time I've been thinking I suffer from Estrogen dominance (classical PCOS hormonal pattern) when it turns out that the opposite may be true. This might explain why there were no cysts on the ultrasounds they've done on my ovaries, and why Clomid was such a spectacular failure. Sigh.
So I guess the next thing to do is to take these results to go to a qualified doctor and see what (if anything) they can do to see about patching things up.
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