Hi  – once again, hormones dance together so it’s always best to go upstream and address possible root causes so that the body shifts to a more optimal state of balance. The following are common reasons for higher prolactin:

•Low dopamine (brain hormone)
•Dopamine antagonist medications
•Low GABA (brain hormones)
•High histamine (↓dopamine)
•H2 receptor antagonist medications 
•(ie. Cimetidine)
•SSRI’s depression medications
•Hypothyroidism
•Low vitamin B6
•High cortisol

I encourage you to watch Dr. Carrie Jones’ presentation “Estrogen Gone Wild” in the All Call Recordings. She discusses reasons for high prolactin.

Hey ,

To help you the best way we can I have a few follow-up questions for you. Do you know what kind of elevations we are talking about? Are they ‘slightly’ out of the reference range? Or much higher?

The diagnosis PCOS is given when two of these three criteria are met:

– irregular periods
– high androgens
– polycystic ovaries 

Do you know which criteria she meets? 

Do you know if she presents other symptoms? I am not only referring to symptoms of high prolactin here. 

And to get a feeling for how her hormones should be, can you provide us with her age?