I Am A 33 Year Old Woman, And I Went

I am a 33 year old woman, and I went off the pill 6 years ago and got the copper IUD. After I did, my periods stopped, and have not resumed. I also, around this time, was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and started Synthroid. I diet, and exercise, but my BMI has never been below 20, and so years have gone by, no period, and doctors start nudging me to do something aboiut it, although I always figured it was the IUD. Or whatever, I didn't miss my period. Somewhere along the way my estradiol levels were checked, and were less than 15.

Now, I go to a gynecologist, and my estradiol levels are low, my FSH levels not high, and when they checked by pituitiary during an MRI I was getting because I have MS also, they saw no growth.

I did have a pituitary adenoma years ago, but then I took something and it went away. It was a galactinoma, something like that. I was lactating a teeny bit.

So they tell me, well, we don't know what this is, but your bones are gonna get bad, and stroke risk, and all that stuff, and so I need to get on hormone replacement. And I have started taking estradiol .5. And my scalp is itching, and I think my hair is falling out, and it has only been 2 weeks. What do I do???