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Originally Posted by Toots192  Hi!
After I went off the BCP after taking it for years (I took it for medicinal purposes) my edocrinolocist told me also that I had estrogen less than a post-menopausal woman - and I was only 22 at the time! The explanation he offered me was that I was on the pill for so long that maybe the presence of estrogen provided by the pill told my brain that I didn't need to produce anymore because I was already getting it. However, this feb I had a gyno and she checked all my hormones and said they were fine. So... The only thing I can think of is that maybe it takes a while after going off the pill for your body to start making it again... Maybe you can ask your doc to check you again in a few months.... |
That's a reasonable explanation. Your body detects the estrogen from the pill and shuts down your natural production of estrogen. When you come off the pill the body may be slow to restart production of its own estrogen or it may actually not restart it at all. That's one reason I wasn't keen to go on the pill.
Gaining weight might help a bit, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation -- you may well be thin
because you've got a high testosterone/low estrogen hormonal balance.
Testosterone and estrogen tend to work against each other in some ways -- that's why post-menopausal women who have never had any moustache or beard growth pre-menopause can begin to develop facial hair at menopause even though their testosterone levels may have dropped -- the thing is that their estrogen levels have dropped much more than their testosterone levels and for the first time, in many instances, they have a hormone balance which leads to moustache and/or beard growth.
extremely low estrogen 
