Some of the other hormone work with estrogen to help avoid side effects and to better treat symptoms.  Look for helps in these important tips:

• Don't look to estrogen for sex drive or energy, this comes more from progesterone and testosterone
• Don't look for estrogen to help with fatigue, this comes more from testosterone and growth hormone
• Don't expect hormone replacement to solve all your health problems.  Out of balance hormones are a heavy anchor--but when your hormones are balanced and the anchor is pulled up, you must still crank the engine with good health practices if you wish to feel better and to enjoy good health.
• Progesterone helps with sleep and calmness more than estrogen
• Estrogen relieves hot flashes better than the others but you can also have hot flashes from low testosterone levels
• If you haven't had a free T3 and a free T4 within the past year, then you don't really know if your thyroid is working properly.
• Growth hormone levels can and often are abnormally low in women who have everything else corrected and are still nearly bedridden with fatigue and or fibromyalgia
• You will not feel happy and calm with a low testosterone level...yes women do need a small level of this hormone (men usually between 500 and 1200, women should be around 50 to 80).
• Birth control pills and Premarin will often lower testosterone levels and cause irritability and fatigue
• Low testosterone levels decrease your metabolism (even if thyroid is normal) and can lead to weight gain.

Just a few tip.  See my books if you want to know more.  Just know that estrogen and progesterone to not work alone and some side effects may be related to ignoring the whole picture.

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