I had my hormones tested exactly 7 days before I started my cycle (day 26) and my lab work looks “normal” at:
Estradiol is at 240 pg/ml
Progesterone 10.9 ng/ml
DHEA is 115
Cortisol is at 10 mcg/Fl
TSH is 1.6 miU/L
Testosterone is 29 ng/DL
FSH 2.0 MIU/ML
LH 2.5 MIU/ML
I also consistently ovulate every cycle (this is confirmed with the LH surge pee sticks and the cervical discharge).
With all of that, every cycle this is the pattern:
Days 1-8 I feel great! Calm and energized. Clear headed
Days 9-16/17 I get bad anxiety, headaches, this weird shaky jittery feeling, trouble sleeping, and extreme fatigue.
Days 18-21/22 I feel pretty good/normal
Days 21-26 I get the headaches, anxiety, restless, extreme congestion, very shaky and jittery feeling.
Days 27-33ish I feel great! Clear headed, calm and grounded. Great sleep.
It’s the two weeks of anxiety, headaches, shaky/jittery, restless sleep that I am trying to figure out how to alleviate.
I have been taking around 60mg of B6 (P5P), Magnesium Glycinate 600mg (sometimes more to help me sleep), Ashwaganda, and an Active B “Stress” Complex.
Do you have any suggestions or recommendations of what is causing these anxiety/extreme shaky/jittery/sleep disturbance issues? I assume it has some sort of link to Estrogen, but my lab work came back “normal” so it doesn’t seem high or low but I feel wayyyyy better when it’s at the lower points in my cycle.
Any tips or advice you have to help alleviate the anxiety would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your book and your podcast!
