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Re: Progesterone Increasing Depression?From: BJ (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:41:27 -0500 (CDT)
At Mon, 17 Jun 2002, susan wrote: > >I have been on Desogen, Ovcon 35, Ortho Tri Cyclen, and currently am on >Lo-Ovral. My problem is that I've experienced terrible moodiness and >cycles of depression on all of them (especially OTC- that was the >worst!) I was reading about Yasmin and wondering if it could help, but I >was also wondering if increasing the progesterone would increase the >depression. I noticed that in most of the pills I've been on the >estrogen dose is between .30-.35 and the progesterone between.15-.30, >but on OTC the progesterone increased from .18 to .215 to .25 over the >three week cycle. This makes me wonder if the high dosage of >progesterone in Yasmin (it's 3.0 from what I've read) could cause >depression? If anyone has any thoughts I'd be glad to hear them! Thanks! First of all, these bc pills DO NOT contain progesterone! The drugs in them are synthetic progestins and, yes, they do cause depression and so does the estrogen in them. Real progesterone helps cure depression.
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