Real-life Case History of Estrogen Dominance
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While Jane's
Story is a compilation of the classic estrogen dominance continuum, here
is a real story from a reader who wrote to me about her experience.
Dr. Lam,
I read your articles and found them very informative. I think this is the
first time I have found a site that incorporates everything that I have
been wondering about and reading up on: the estrogens in the environment.
I can see how I must have been effected when very young according to the
symptoms that started to develop in earnest in my 20's: (wish I knew about
this earlier as my husband and I had wanted to have another child):
1) My parents were raised on Long Island, NY, a site indicated for its high
breast cancer rates. I lived on L.I. for first three years of life. A study
is ongoing about breast cancer rates in L.I. (Nassau County where my parents
lived) and Tolland County, CT, ironically where I was raised after age 6.
2) Where I live (CT) is number one state in Nation for breast cancer rates.
Neighboring MA is Number Two. Vermont I think is still Number Three.
3) We lived in Vernon, CT and a lot of pollution occurred there from factory
smokestacks. When we ran outside to play tag in the summer, our lungs would
hurt. In fact, (we live in a rural section of CT removed from this area
now) when we drive towards Hartford now, I notice that just about at the
Vernon border is when you can really sense the air pollution.
4) We drank chlorinated, fluorinated water. Our diet was heavy with meat,
dairy products, and crackers and cookies and margarine with trans-fats.
5) My sister also has mild endometriosis, (but she never tried to have children
so whether she is infertile we don't know). She exercises almost to the
extreme, is healthy except for chronic intestinal problems. Her light cycle
has never been more than five days. She is now in menopause. She is 42.
6) I started to develop acne in the mid twenties; it progressively started
to get worse, especially after I ate a lot of fatty foods or was run down.
I took an antibiotic for awhile to treat it but reacted to it. Had mild
PMS, thought it was what everyone had. At the same time of the acne, started
to develop mild facial hair, but never any kind of hair loss until chemo.
7) It took 1 1/2 years to conceive with my daughter and after that, we moved
to GA for four years where pesticides were the norm weekly to keep our lawns
from a mole cricket devastation. We would just dump this stuff onto our
large lawn by the bagful. Twice I was caught outside when they came around
in a truck to spray mosquitoes in the air.
8) I would regularly drink the chlorinated water in GA for two years, heat
up food in microwave until recently with plastic containers and plastic
wrap and drink water out of large tupperware plastic containers and even
until just recently, pour piping hot beverages for tea in plastic portable
containers.
9) Was on a mild fertility drug for three cycles in 2000.
10) I had insomnia up until a few years after my daughter was born, and
in growing up years, slept with a nightlight regularly.
11) Forgot to mention that I take Artichoke herbal supplement for the liver.
12) Started eating fried tofu and soy meat analog products regularly a few
years after my daughter was born until just recently.
13) Had gallbladder symptoms until just recently (seem to have dissipated
with the reduction of estrogen in my system after the chemo), however, they
briefly resurfaced over the holidays this year with a very fatty Christmas
dinner. I had liver tests done in GA when I was experiencing these symptoms
at first and they came out normal. Also had a hormonal function blood test
done and that was normal in 1996.
13) Had a cryo done after abnormal cells surfaced at cervix, before we left
military.
14) I was the first one to develop in the fifth grade class, although menstruation
came at age 12. My daughter is now starting to develop at about the same
age. I had two different blood tests done--there is no hereditary basis
for the cancer I had based upon these two negative results, although thyroid
cancer runs in my dad's side of the family, only affecting his brother and
his son.
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