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[mercurysmile.livejournal.com]

I've seen people on here talking about how they have unusually high levels of testosterone, so I figured it stands to reason one can also have naturally higher estrogen levels. Anyone heard of this, and know what kind of effects it has?

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[insaneoragenius.livejournal.com]

My estrogen gets crazily high sometimes... I don't know why. It just shoots way up sometimes. I usually go find my boyfriend :)

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Is this medically documented or is this a self-diagnosis? Just because you get horny doesn't mean your estrogen is shooting up. Both men and women do have testosterone, in different amounts, and its testosterone that fuels the sex drive, more so than estrogen.
OP-- I have high androgen levels. I also have PCOS. They are supposedly connected. Women with high androgen levels are often overweight, have trouble taking the wieght off, are sometimes hairier and sometimes have skin discoloration. IMO women with high androgen levels tend to have male-pattern fat accumulation(stomach/torso instead of butt/thighs); that's from what I've seen, not sure if it is documented. There are other symptoms I'm forgettting, I'm sure. Women's androgen levels generally don't "shoot up".. you don't have it one day and not the next.

[insaneoragenius.livejournal.com]

It isn't an every day thing, more like every other day. It was a self-diagnosis, just wanted her to know it isn't abnormal to feel a higher level of estrogen..

[mercurysmile.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite. I'm overweight but lose weight very easily when I make an effort, have very even fat distribution (every part of me is pudgy, no part of me is huge) except for very large breasts and hips. I'm extremely emotional and cry even when I'm not really rationally upset (often I'll be sobbing and insisting that I'm not really that upset and honestly meaning it), slightly less body hair than average, extremely high sex drive...seems hormonal to me, but I've been both on hormonal birth control and off it for long periods in the past few years and am consistently like this.

[insaneoragenius.livejournal.com]

The pills you took might be screwing with your hormones. Talk to a doctor, maybe.

[beloveddoll.livejournal.com]

you know, I tend to have the same things happen to me...
well, aside from the even weight distrubution. ( i have big big big breasts, no ass and a big set of hips and thighs and tummy...everything else is smaller than the rest...which makes for HAVOC on my poor knees and ankles. Oi.) But, I have less body hair than most, I cry cry cry all the time and an extremely high sex drive as well.

I always wondered if I was special in some way...
Huh.

[mynameismaryjo.livejournal.com]

we're all special in our own way.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

OP--I'm sorry. I thought you were asking for info on high androgen levels, not high estrogen levels-- I misread. Sorry!

[thevargasgirl.livejournal.com]

An NP once mentioned higher levels of estrogen to me. I have menstrual migraines and fibrocystic breasts. I dunno. That NP really sucked.
I do find that when I was on the pill, I had to have a pill with a moderate estrogen activity and a high androgen activity or else I would be totally emotional and crazy.

[eclare.livejournal.com]

A woman's hormone levels fluctuate in a periodic fashion - high estrogen near the beginning of the cycle, culminating with ovulation, a spike of progestin right after ovulation (which would maintain the pregnancy if there was fertilization). Then...the hormone levels plummet. Because a woman goes through these different phases, it's perfectly natural to have higher estrogen months and lower ones. Men's hormone levels, although are not constant, compared to women are pretty well even. That's how one guy can have constantly "high" testosterone and another "low" testosterone. For us girls, if we have a low level of estrogen, we just have to wait a few weeks and it'll come back up.

All the hormones occur in both men and women - it's just a question of ratios. And the truth is, what we know about hormone levels is more or less "second hand" - it's not like checking your oil levels, you stick in a dip stick and see if you're a quart low.