PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for December, 2002: Re: Progesterone

Re: Progesterone

From: jalan (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 27 Dec 2002 17:23:33 -0600 (CST)

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Penny:

According to Dr. John Lee's book What Your Dr. May Not Tell You About PreMenopause, natural progesterone cream can be used in women with hormonal imbalances to restore normal hormone function. If it is used during days 15-25 of the cycle, the woman should ovulate and have a normal period, and can get pregnant.

Natural progesterone cream (which is available otc at health food stores) is NOT a birth control method! This progesterone cream (unlike the progestin in bcp's) is chemically the same as the hormone in a woman's body and theoretically regulates other hormones, including estrogen and testosterone.

That said, I personally have been using the cream for the past ten months with little success. I've been on bcp from age 17-37 for pcos symptoms. When I went off the pill and onto the cream, I gained 15 pounds, my beard started growing, I had no period for 3 months and then I had a period that lasted 4 weeks! So now I have gone back on the pill to control these problems and plan on trying glucophage xr. I think some women could have success with the natural progesterone cream but it did not work for me. Good luck.

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jalan

At Fri, 13 Dec 2002, =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi wrote:
>
>Hi Penny,
>
>The dr who has prescribed P for your daughter failed to explain that it is a compound similoaar to (but the natural one) the hormones present in all and every combined BCP (i.e. nearly all). So she will neither ovulate nor conceive while taking P.
>A question: how does she take it (continuosly, several days every cycle etc.)
>Looking forward to your answer
>
>Sam
>
>> My daughter was just diagnosed with pcos.  She can not take birth
>> control so she is on Progesterone.  I'm assuming this will help her to
>> ovulate.  My question is, can u get pregnant while taking it.
>>
>> --
>> Penny
>>

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