Low Estrogen and pregnant

[Chrissi1981]

Hi Ladies,

I wanted to see if any other lady is in or was in the same position as me. I have had two miscarriages in a row and pregnant for the third time. Just before falling pregnant with the previous cycle I had to take samples of saliva to monitor my hormones. We found out from the testing that my progesterone levels were great but my oestrogen levels were rather low.

Has anyone here been in the same situation ? I am having a bit of a panic wondering if I am heading towards another miscarriage. I am 5 weeks and 2 days or something like that. I had a blood test this morning and will get my results back on Wednesday afternoon. Praying that my levels are not too low, but if they are will the doctors put me on something like patches or tablets?

Wondering if anyone had a good outcome ?

Never thought i'd be oestrogen deficient. But then I have osteoporosis so I am not surprised.

Love Chrissi xx

 

[Christi85]

Hello,
Didn't want to read and run. As far as I know, estrogen is connected with ovulation, so if your estrogen is very low, it means you don't ovulate or you don't ovulate properly. Since you are pregnant, obviously your estrogen wasn't as low as to prevent you from ovulating. I don't see why having a little low estrogen would be a problem or lead to a miscarriage. The hormone that actually sustains a pregnancy until the placenta takes over towards the end of the 1st trimester is actually progesterone, which you have said you have normal levels of. Also, when pregnant, both estrogen and progesterone (all hormones really) tend to shoot up.

I've been the opposite - I've had a history of low progesterone, but I'm taking supplementation until the end of the trimester. That being said, in this pregnancy my progesterone level was within the normal range when I tested (it was 15 at 4 weeks along, and the average for most women is 12-20 in weeks 4-5, so I was right there) when my non-pregnancy levels were always in the 6-8 range=on the low side. Which means, once I did get pregnant, my body did what it was supposed to do. My first pregnancy (blighted ovum) my progesterone was at non-pregnancy levels, which was upsetting, but then we found out the pregnancy was non viable, which explained why my body didn't put in the extra effort to produce more of the hormone.

I don't know if low estrogen matters all that much in pregnancy, but unless a medical professional specifically tells you low estrogen can cause miscarriage (never heard of it), I wouldn't worry about it.

Good luck with your pregnancy! Hope it brings you your little rainbow!

 

[Chrissi1981]

Thanks honey for replying. Yeah well that's exactly what I thought, but time will tell. I'm actually using progesterone cream too to boost it up as I wasn't aware of my levels when I fell pregnant I wanted to use it just in case. I don't think it can be that bad as I'm like clock work ovulating on the 14th day and getting my AF on day 27-28. I fell pregnant all times on 1st cycle. I'm very fertile lol ... Hopefully it was just one of those things. I too had a BO in July last year and lost twins in October. I conceived a month after my BO but I don't think my body was ready and I had a lot of digestion issues which I think I have under control right now. So I lost that pregnancy too.

Ah well we will beat ourselves up after a miscarriage.

Thanks for your message have a great day ! Xx