Everything I've heard about women taking estrogen has been bad.  Very bad.  I am not a woman, but my wife is always talking about how bad it is.  She said something about getting the estrogen from horse urine...I just picked that up one day when she was talking about it...don't know what it means.

Why did the doctor think it was a good idea to supplement estrogen?  Bottom line...If your wife was fine before the estrogen, leave well enough alone.  It's no coincidence.  If she had normal periods, wouldn't that mean that her hormones were in check?  I don't know.  Hopefully a woman will respond to this.  All I've been told is that estrogen is like the brown acid.  Stay away from the brown acid   .  I'm sure there are times when it's warranted, but from what I understand, doctors are passing it out like it's candy.

Progesterone on the other hand, is something my wife is looking into supplementing.  We're trying to figure out when the right time of month is to get the blood test.  We just got one back, but the levels are hard to understand cause they flucuate during the month.  She's fairly certain that her levels are low, though.  She's looking into some kind of bioidentical creams.  Now, I'm the one that's doing the talking here so I might have messed some things up.  My wife does not post here, so I'm trying to remember what she said...trouble is, I don't always listen.

Cini,

When does the cycle start?  The first day of the period?  It's been hard to figure out when to test or when my wife's cycle begins because she doesn't get regular periods.

Oh...I guess I know what my wife was talking about when I heard her say horse urine.

Thanks.

1.  Some women as they get to menopause (peri-menopause is the period before the cessation of menstruation) start to see their periods diminish.  Mine did.  For about 3 years I could go 2-3 months without a period.  My estrogen was up and down during this time.

2.  Peri-menopause is a time where fibroids tend to grow if a woman is "estrogen dominant."  Fibroids are not good.  Research "estrogen dominant" and you will see that fibroids feed on estrogen and hence why many people do not like to supplement with estrogen.  If they do they usually add progesterone so that they prevent an environment of "estrogen dominance."    If your wife had a history of large breasts and/or painful cramps, it is likely she was estrogen dominant.  Although levels go down in peri-menopause...the progesterone relative to the estrogen goes does faster making a woman potentially MORE likely to be estrogen dominant because of the RATIOs. 

3.  The DHEA supplementation may have added what hormones she needed....it will add to progesterone and possibly estrogen from what I am reading. 

4.  What you are describing sounds like too much progesterone from what I've read.  But if you eliminate the progesterone, I'd eliminate the added estrogen which leaves her back to where she started.