estrogen dominance

The Natural Progesterone Advisory Network website has collated, through documented observation, a cluster of hormone imbalance symptoms including estrogen dominance not easily found in mainstream publications. And our list continues to grow. They include the following:

• Gritty, dry eyes
• Blurred vision and/or watery eyes, difficulty focusing
• Tender heels and/or feet, from sensitive to burning
• Restless legs – particularly at night-time (in bed)
• Itchy, burning, sore ears
• Sensation of foreign object in ear such as bees or insects, tinnitus
• Vertigo, particularly around ovulation time onwards (more profound lying down in bed)
• Palpitations
• Heartburn
• Low resistance to infection
• Sinusitis, head congestion, flu-like headaches
• Pre-menstrual asthma
• Painful, throbbing face, one side more than the other often reported
• Aching teeth – dental checkup inconclusive
• Cyclic throat problems – too many sore throats around ovulation time, throats that don’t clear, consistent sore throats every month, tonsillitis, asthma, upper respiratory problems
• Acne or pimples, particularly just prior to menses, also in older women
• Premature wrinkling
• Chronic recurrence of thrush, cystitis, vaginitis
• Reports of acne on the vulva that flares at menses
• Chronic Candida
• Bouts of diarrhea prior to the menses, some alternating constipation, especially with women who have cysts and endometriosis
• Leaky gut syndrome
• Inflamed bowel problems – Colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut syndrome
• Inability to lose weight and shift fluid
• Loss of control over bladder (stress incontinence), inability to empty, tender & sensitive (absence of bladder infection), fluctuation/variation of bladder paralysis
• Extreme dream agitation and anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Inability to focus
• Inability to concentrate
• Loss of short term memory
• Alienation and loss of confidence
• Androgen side effects: facial hair, increased body hair
• Increased thickening and blacking of limb hair
• Atypical periods alternating from shorter or extending to longer, cycles become erratic, can alternate from heavier to lighter, or can be a combination of both – heaving clotting (no fibroids)
• Aching joints present in the form of rheumatism or arthritis, joint and muscle stiffness, nerve endings feeling very fragmented and fragile and tender to touch, imitative of fibromyalgia syndrome
• Pins and needles, sciatica, hip pain down one side predominantly quite common although bone mineral densities and hip x-ray tests are normal
• Painful ovaries upon ovulation
• Painful ovaries in the absence of ovulation, confusing women that they have ovulated
• Obsessive, irrational thought and behavior patterns: finding a lost item, trying to think of someone’s name, being aware on one level but unable to stop yourself on another.
• Lack of lateral thinking and ability to multi-task
• Fragmented physically, emotionally and spiritually
• Headaches and migraines – sharp pains through top of head
• Overwhelming panic attacks and unfounded fear
• Social phobia, sense of loss of social skills, withdrawal
• Unrelated grief & sadness
• Sluggish liver (aggravated by hormonal overload, overuse of synthetic HRT, medications, xenoestrogens)
• Vocabulary / speech difficulty – ‘tongue tied’, verbal stammer