[MeganJ]

Heres the results from my test done before switching to HRT - this was after 9.5 months of BO:

Hormones
TESTOSTERONE                  17.44          nmol/L    7.600 - 31.400
FREE-TESTOSTERONE(CALCULATED) 0.319          nmol/L    0.300 - 1.000
17-BETA OESTRADIOL           *162.3          pmol/L    44.000 - 156.000
SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOB      39.23          nmol/L    16.000 - 55.000

I had taken additional steps to reduce testosterone 4 weeks before so this may have had some impact on the levels there (am not going to indicate what here as it was very risky and definitely not recommended) - but BO had definitely started to have an impact.  Like Sofia I wish I had got a reading pre NBE but I do know that when my hormones were last checked my t was above the mean average and my estradiol was in the normal male range.

Note the ranges above are the male ranges for the measurement used I do know from memory the t is about 500 ng/dl in the above, the estradiol was about 44 ng/dl with a male range of about 10-40 (so 10% over the top of the range).

Hope its useful info - I really dont think BO converts t to e at a significant level though based on my results, I had always though it is more likely to contain a lot of growth hormone and possibly some estrogen - but not much given my readings above.

Am not sure if taking BO before HRT makes any difference but I am getting some major changes on HRT very very quickly - been on it for 5 weeks and well have progressed more in 5 weeks than I had in the previous 5 months.

Megan