Another common side effect is mental depression. Estrogens may cause breast tenderness, and may cause the breasts to secrete a liquid. It is also possible to contact yellow jaundice, especially if you have had it in the past. Estrogens may cause excess fluid to be retained in the body. This may make some conditions worse, such as asthma, epilepsy, migraine, heart disease, or kidney disease.
Estrogens have serious risks.
You must decide, with your doctor, whether the risks are acceptable to you. In addition to the information from Ayerst, you should be aware that generic estrogens, while they may represent a savings of money, carry a special danger. Generic medications cost less because they are manufactured with much looser quality control standards. Your body cannot quickly adjust its ability to make its own hormones, in response to sudden changes in dosage, or to changes when hormones are available through your digestive or muscular system. In males, very large dosages of estrogens, besides generating the risks listed by Ayerst Labs, will cause atrophy of the penis.