PCOS Messages for June, 2003: Re: switched to progesterone and feel pregnant!!

Re: switched to progesterone and feel pregnant!!

From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:18:59 -0500 (CDT)

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Home pregnancy tests are checking for the presence of a hormone called hcg - progesterone will NOT effect the tests.

When you are pregnant, your progesterone levels naturally rise, and it's the higher levels of progesterone that cause pregnancy symptoms. This is why many women on the pill get nausea, swollen tender breasts, fatigue, and so on. So it's most likely the progesterone that is causing these symptoms for you. If they bother you, ask your doctor to switch you.

Progesterone won't interfere with thyroid tests.

Women with PCOS often have high levels of estrogen and low levels of progesterone. For this reason, progesterone-only birth control pills often work better for us (if you're using the pill to treat symptoms.) There's been a lot of debate over hormone therapy lately and taking one hormone rather than two is probably not a bad thing, at least I imagine this is what your doctor is thinking. If you'd like more answers, ask them! They are there (and you pay them!) to give you information about what's going on with your body. Just call the office and leave a message asking why.

At Sun, 29 Jun 2003, anonymous wrote: >
>about 2 months ago, my ob-gyn switched me from ortho-tricyclen (which i
>have been on for 6 years) to a purely progesterone-based birth control.
>She explained to me why she did this in a very ambiguous way, and i'm
>still not sure what made me need the switch. However, now i'm over two
>weeks late, and have severe nausea in the early morning and late
>evenings. It feels like pregnancy, but two home pregnancy tests have
>come back negative. i've started taking the pills in the morning,
>because i've heard that taking them late at night tends to cause nausea,
>but still suffer with nausea every day. I looked into ectopic pregnancy
>sites, and they all say that i should be experiencing side-specific
>abdominal pain or bleeding, which i am not. I think that pregnancy
>tests are progesterone based, so i'm wondering if my pills could be
>interfering with the test results. Can this happen? Also, i'm going in
>two weeks to have my thyroid evaluated because my family doctor believes
>me to have hypothyroidism. Could my progesterone pills effect the
>results of this test? do i need to stop taking them prior to the thyroid
>test? Sorry for posting two questions, but i need answers FAST!!!

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