Interesting tidbit of info about fsh and cholesterol
I have had POF for 20 yrs since I was 19 and have been struggling with high cholesterol for at least a decade in my adult life despite I have always eaten healthy. I have had to cut my saturated fat way back to less than 15g a day and lost quite a bit of weight. Now my cholesterol is okay but still on the high end.
I was looking up how Estradiol is made and turns out your body uses cholesterol to create estradiol with a few steps in between. So considering my FSH is probably still high despite being on hormones (cause they never test it and just go by symptoms) then it makes sense that my body is making extra cholesterol because it wants my ovaries to make more estradiol but they can’t cause they don’t work.
And it bothers me because I’m also hypothyroid and they test my TSH levels every 6 months to verify my medicine is right but no doctor asks to test my FSH to see if my estrogen levels are high enough for my body to function normally. It’s like they (doctors and the majority of medical professionals) don’t care about the uniquely feminine. I just thought this was really interesting and wanted to share/vent.