I wrote to a hormone therapy specialist in California to inquire whether he would accept me as an internet-only patient - but he replied that he did not accept patients who did not go into his office. However, as a courtesy, he reviewed my post here and told me the following:
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Blood is a poor marker for assessment and monitoring of sex hormones.
I use saliva and urine testing.
No one has mentioned that to me before. So it made me review my previous saliva test. I blamed the results to be an error or a fluke, because my Estradiol was listed as HIGH! 2.8 pg/mL (Ref: 0.5-2.2). Because of that I want to run urine-based hormone tests and see if the results compare to or contradict the blood results. Supposedly saliva & urine are better indicators of free Estradiol floating around the body.