Progesterone immunoassay

[JA Battle]

I’m curious what this test can pick up on to skew the result? For example the e2 standard assay picks up on crp and inflates the reading.

 

[AndroChishti]

DHEA sulfate can skew the result towards the higher end in Progesterone assay.

 

[Gman86]

I have always had naturally high DHEA-S levels and it doesn’t seem to increase my progesterone level much, or at all. I’ve had very low prog levels with concurrently very high DHEA-S levels. But this is just my results/ experience obv

 

[AndroChishti]

Source : https://www.albertahealthservices.c...sults-due-to-cross-reactivity-with-dhea-s.pdf

That is where I read about the cross reactivity of DHEAs and progesterone.

 

[Gman86]

Damn, so even the very small amount of progesterone that I think I have might not even be progesterone lol