Hormonal Help anyone?

interesting - im seeing a homeopath at moment, recently the neurologist found a cyst on my pineal gland...The homeopath thinks I have lots of hormonal imbalance and so has given me a remedy to help support my hypothamulus and try and encourage balance to help my sleep issues...

In my experience im thinking hormonal imbalance is something to do with it, I started having weird symptoms after birth of my second child (not fibro but vertigo and dizziness) never been able to find out what it was and just shrugged it off...now I think it was the start of what I have now...

I am familiar with Dr Lee and his progesterone recommendation.
However, I get major migraines from progesterone (and various other symptoms).
I simply can't seem to tolerate it.

Estrogen on the other hand, fixes a lot. Yet, "they" don't recommend estrogen only if you still have your uterus.
It makes me think about having a hysterectomy just so I can take estrogen only.

The other day I was reading the 100 symptoms of menopause, and wouldn't you know it, all of them are listed as fibromyalgia symptoms, too. So, which is it? I wonder if this is why some women claim after they fixed their hormones, their fibromyalgia resolved.

Things like joint and bone pain are not usually connected with low estrogen (or imbalanced hormones) and neither are digestive problems. I just read that low estrogen can cause low bile production and in many other ways affects digestion. When you actually begin reading into how important estrogen is to every body process, you realize why so many women start to fall apart when they get to peri-menopause.

Not everyone has the extremely low estrogen levels. Thin women produce less estrogen before menopause than fatter women do after menopause. Body fat increases estrogen levels. So, there cannot be a one-size fix all for everyone. In my case, yes, progesterone did fall to non-detectable levels at the beginning of peri-menopause, but estrogen was also low and the last blood test I had a few years ago showed extremely low estrogen, even low for post-menopause.

I used progesterone cream for years -- tried multiple brands -- when I was going through peri-menopause, and it did not help any of my symptoms. Finally, my doctor said she didn't think enough was getting through and she prescribed the natural progesterone, Prometrium. One pill before bed, and I woke a few hours later with the worst migraine. That was the end of that.

I think there is something to fixing one's hormones, which tend to be imbalanced, usually low, in FM and CFIDS.
And, I think women can be helped significantly by hormone therapy if tolerated.