June 28, 2008
Female Hormone Levels
In today's life, women are working in all industries and on all levels. So, they can not get much time to look after on them selves because of the stress in the work, any family tensions as well as any other reason. So, this all affects on their body like in the way of either from internal way or on the external way. So, this is the main reason to cause the hormonal imbalance of women. Some of the hormones which can be test are as under,
Some female hormone like Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), which has the normal value 3-20miu/ml, is some times used to measure the reserve ovarian. There is indication of reserve ovarian like below 6 is excellent, the average between 6 to 9 is good, 9 to 10 is fair, 10 to 13 diminished reserve, and the 13 is come in to the very hard to stimulate category. LH: FSH ratio is used to diagnosis in PCOS. The ratio of it closes to the 1:1, but remembers if the LH is higher; it is the indication of the PCOS.
The other one is Estradiol (E2) which has a normal value of 25 to 75 pg/ml, has the level of lower end tend which is better for stimulating. In case of day 3, if there is abnormal high level it is the indication of the functional cyst or the diminished ovarian reserve.
Estradiol (E2) having the normal level of 100 pg/ml or 2x day 3, in this it is very important that there is no chart which is showing E2 levels at the time of stimulation even though there is a wide variation which is depending on the how many follicles are being produced as well as their size. Increase in the E2, most of the doctors is considering it as a positive sign.
Luteinizing Hormone, Prolactine, Progesterone (P4), Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), Free Triiodothyronine (T3), Total Testosterone, Free Thyroxine (T4), Free Testosterone, Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate (DHEAS), Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG), Androstenedione, 17 Hydroxyprogesterone, these are the some hormone to test for the female.
But, always remember all labs have different normal values and the above are the just average of it.







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