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Hi, this is Karen Nickel from Sweaty and Piss, Menopause and more.

And Leanne, Morgan and I would like to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving holiday.

I'm here with our producer, Forrest Winsell,

and Leanne is not able to join us today but I thought I'd answer a couple

questions from Facebook where we had Sonia asking about cystic acne and she says that she had been on

acutane previously and is currently on two milligrams of estradiol at night and 100

milligrams of progestrone which she takes mostly at night sometimes in the

morning and also is sort of struggling with sleep issues and

ask for some supplement recommendations.

So here's the deal. Eststradyl and progesterone can convert to testosterone.

So sometimes if doses are too high for you, you'll have higher conversion to testosterone than we would like to have.

And testosterone can trigger cystic acne.

So one option is to consider maybe lowering the estradial dose a little bit

if you can tolerate in terms of hot flashes and night sweats if you don't trigger those

vasomotor symptoms. The other thing to

a form of testosterone will convert too much of it to a form of testosterone called

d. H.T.

And the supplement over-the-counter

excuse me supplement called Saul Palmetto saw Palmetto

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