The Natural Progesterone Advisory Network website has collated, through documented observation, a cluster of hormone imbalance symptoms including estrogen dominance not easily found in mainstream publications. And our list continues to grow. They include the following:

• Gritty, dry eyes
   
  
• Blurred vision and/or watery eyes, difficulty focusing
   
  
• Tender heels and/or feet, from sensitive to burning
   
  
• Restless legs - particularly at night-time (in bed)
   
  
• Itchy, burning, sore ears
   
  
• Sensation of foreign object in ear such as bees or insects, tinnitus
   
  
• Vertigo, particularly around ovulation time onwards (more profound lying down in bed)
   
  
• Palpitations
   
  
• Heartburn
   
  
• Low resistance to infection
  
  
• Sinusitis, head congestion, flu-like headaches
   
  
• Pre-menstrual asthma
   
  
• Painful, throbbing face, one side more than the other often reported
   
  
• Aching teeth - dental checkup inconclusive
   
  
• Cyclic throat problems - too many sore throats around ovulation time, throats that don’t clear, consistent sore throats every month, tonsillitis, asthma, upper respiratory problems
   
  
• Acne or pimples, particularly just prior to menses, also in older women
   
  
• Premature wrinkling
   
  
• Chronic recurrence of thrush, cystitis, vaginitis
   
  
• Reports of acne on the vulva that flares at menses
   
  
• Chronic Candida
   
  
• Bouts of diarrhea prior to the menses, some alternating constipation, especially with women who have cysts and endometriosis
  
  
• Leaky gut syndrome
  
  
• Inflamed bowel problems - Colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut syndrome
   
  
• Inability to lose weight and shift fluid
  
  
• Loss of control over bladder (stress incontinence), inability to empty, tender & sensitive (absence of bladder infection), fluctuation/variation of bladder paralysis
   
  
• Extreme dream agitation and anxiety
   
  
• Panic attacks
   
  
• Inability to focus
  
  
• Inability to concentrate
  
  
• Loss of short term memory
   
  
• Alienation and loss of confidence
   
  
• Androgen side effects: facial hair, increased body hair Increased thickening and blacking of limb hair
   
  
• Atypical periods alternating from shorter or extending to longer, cycles become erratic, can alternate from heavier to lighter, or can be a combination of both - heaving clotting (no fibroids)
   
  
• Aching joints present in the form of rheumatism or arthritis, joint and muscle stiffness, nerve endings feeling very fragmented and fragile and tender to touch, imitative of fibromyalgia syndrome
  
  
• Pins and needles, sciatica, hip pain down one side predominantly quite common although bone mineral densities and hip x-ray tests are normal
  
  
• Painful ovaries upon ovulation
   
  
• Painful ovaries in the absence of ovulation, confusing women that they have ovulated
   
  
• Obsessive, irrational thought and behavior patterns: finding a lost item, trying to think of someone’s name, being aware on one level but unable to stop yourself on another.
   
  
• Lack of lateral thinking and ability to multi-task
   
  
• Fragmented physically, emotionally and spiritually
   
  
• Headaches and migraines - sharp pains through top of head
  
  
• Overwhelming panic attacks and unfounded fear
  
  
• Social phobia, sense of loss of social skills, withdrawal
  
  
• Unrelated grief & sadness
  
  
• Sluggish liver (aggravated by hormonal overload, overuse of synthetic HRT, medications, xenoestrogens)
   
  
• Vocabulary / speech difficulty - 'tongue tied', verbal stammer