Some of the symptoms you might see with estradiol levels elevated above
normal lab reference ranges (or sometimes even with «high normal» levels) are: fluid retention, mood swings, nipple sensitivity / breast tissue stimulation, bloating, hot flashes and, reduction in clinical benefit from TRT.
I think I've said this before but why did my doctor not do that like five years ago rather than just looking at the number and saying «Oh, well, that's inside
the normal lab reference range.»
Not exact matches
They may be using an outdated
reference range, using «
normal»
reference ranges from their medical school days, and are unfamiliar with newer guidelines that in fact have a narrower optimal
range (see the conventional versus optimal
lab ranges below).
If your
lab is one number away from being outside of the
reference range, you're still classified as «
normal.»
On your
labs there's typically a
reference range that tells you what is considered «
normal.»
A serum testosterone level of 59 is high -
normal by most
lab range, your
lab report should list a
reference range to help give you and idea of where it falls in comparison.
Since units of measure and
normal reference ranges differ, it is difficult to discern you best next steps by
labs alone.
Most physicians only look for values outside of the «
normal»
reference range provided by the
labs and may not be familiar with the new guidelines.
Beware however, functional / sub-clinical iron deficiency can still (and often does) exist because the
reference ranges considered
normal by blood
labs are extremely wide — so you will be quite deficient if you fall below the
lab's «
normals».
Hi Carolyn, you can't trust thyroid
labs and the «
normal»
reference ranges.
If you get the tests refer to the
lab reference values for
normal ranges.
Most doctors evaluate the
lab results based on the
reference ranges or «
normal limits» but only the sickest 5 % of the population will have results outside those
normal limits.
Aside from that, there are
normal reference ranges, and an informed clinician can use
lab results, information from your history and physical exam, and your ongoing response to therapy to help navigate TRT / BHRT.
Unless you've had a comprehensive thyroid panel performed, and have had it evaluated with a set of eyes that look beyond the «
normal»
lab reference ranges, you could be fighting an uphill battle with your weight that you'll never be able to win.
Often, but not always, this can be seen on a routine blood test even if the values lie within the
lab's
normal reference range.
Unless you've had a comprehensive thyroid panel performed, and have had it evaluated with a set of eyes that look beyond the «
normal»
lab reference ranges, you could be fighting an uphill battle with your -LSB-...]
Conventional medicine sees the goal of thyroid replacement therapy in bringing your
lab test results into the
normal reference range and after that the treatment is considered successful.
The «
reference range» is the
range of cortisol values that a
lab uses to interpret
lab results and say what is considered
normal, or abnormal.
She writes that this interpretation «often yields an expected
normal reference range for an individual pet that differs from the test
lab's generic broad
reference range.»