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Hello sweaty and Pist listeners, this is Karen Nickel,

family nurse practitioner in for sweaty and pissed,

minipause and more.

I have some great listener questions to share today

and hopefully I will provide some useful answers.

You know, this show is always evolving and our podcast name is evolving also. We will be known as Itchy and Bitchie and I suspect that for

those who are listening to this podcast you will get that. And now on to our listener questions.

Penny asks, is it possible for a low dose of estradiol.

0.5 milligrams to cause sore breasts?

I have had a total hysterectomy and current mammogram

that was fine.

But I have breast soreness off and on.

Penny is also wondering if this is something that happens to others.

And Penny, I'm sure it does does and that's why I think answering your

question so that the other listeners can hear it would be very helpful. So yes when

you're taking estrogen, especially estradiol, which is one of our three forms of

estrogen in our body, we have estriol, estradiol, and estrone.

And estradiol is our most stimulatory form of estrogen.

So it can and will stimulate breast tissue.

So sometimes when the estradial levels are too high, they will cause,

that elevation will cause breast tenderness. So sometimes that happens because we're just not clearing and metabolizing estrogen appropriately.

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