schultz
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I have the symptoms and the serum levels of low estrogens.
I doubt tissue analysis would show otherwise. If I have the symptoms, it means that the tissue is being affected by low e2, doesn't it?
Someone with low serum e2 but symptoms of high e2 would benefit from such a tissue analysis, in all logic.
You are connecting certain symptoms with low blood estrogen, but that doesn't mean those symptoms are actually caused by a low whole body estrogen, just that you think they are. It is the simplest explanation however, based on the information that you have. You could legitimately have low estrogen, but it seems unlikely to me (unlikely, but possible I suppose).
Have you checked your other estrogen levels? Those can be used as material to make E2 inside of tissue. If you have low SHBG or something the estrogen may stay 'stuck' in there and not show up on a blood test (SHBG goes inside the cell and removes estrogen). Also fat in the blood can bind to SHBG making the SHBG unable to bind estrogen. Older women have low blood estrogen but high tissue estrogen. They also have low progesterone relative to estrogen and their lower level of estrogen actually has a greater estrogenic effect compared to a younger woman with high blood estrogen but also high progesterone. However you did say you had symptoms of low estrogen. What are your symptoms?