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Can estrogen help suppress fsh?

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Dr. Marybeth Lambe answered

Specializes in Travel Medicine

Yes: In a simplified way, the higher the fsh is, the more the body is 'calling out' for estrogen. This makes it a type of reverse test: a high fsh means low estrogen and a low fsh means enough estrogen. If we are trying to prove a woman is going through menopause, we may check an fsh & see if it is very high confirming menopause. If she is on estrogen we might be fooled as her fsh could be then normal.

Answered 12/17/2017

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Why: Why do you want to suppress fsh. Estrogen will suppress lh, who's job it is to stimulate estrogen in the first place. Fsh relates to egg production, not estrogen.

Answered 9/28/2016

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