'Serenity' Progesterone Cream

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Does anyone have any experience of using the above?

I am particularly interested in knowing about people who have had a hysterectomy

and take HRT.

It has been suggested that I might find this of benefit but am concerned about

risks.

Any advice greatly received.

Many Thanks

a

PS - Thankyou Sheila for your advice re Genova tests and will report back about

whether they will discount an Oestrogen/Progesterone test.

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Hi a,

I had a hysterectomy at 39. Have never been on HRT as I didn't trust it. Had

terrible problems with sore boobs up to a couple of years ago, when I got my

projesterone and estrogen measured privately. (Doc refused as I was over 50).

The progesterone was very low so I was estrogen dominant. I bought the

cream, and it all feels much better now.

The endo told me patronisingly that I'd wasted my money, and I told him that I

was happy to waste it and that even if it was a placebo I felt much better.

I understood most problems and risks of cancer etc are to do with estrogen

dominance, what known risks are there with progesterone?

http://www.progesterone.co.uk

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Hi a and

I've been taking Serenity Progesterone Cream for a couple of years. I

started it on Dr P's advice. I can't say whether it's helped me or not

because, between Dr P and the nutritional therapist I've also been seeing,

I've been taking a whole heap of supplements at the same time, constantly

adjusting according to hair mineral analysis, Genova tests, symptom charts

etc etc, all the time trying to get my Vit D right (succeeded), ferritin

(not succeeded yet), adrenals (just about getting there) and increase my

thyroid supplementation to where it needs to be (now up to 60 mcg T3 alone).

In my opinion Dr Lee's 'What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About

Menopause'is the best source of info on how all the hormones work and what

their risks are. I would definitely recommend it and it will set your mind

at rest about taking natural progesterone. It contains a very helpful table

with a long list of what natural progesterone does versus what synthetic

'progesterone' does - according to Dr Lee, natural progesterone has

virtually no downsides while the synthetic stuff has many very serious ones.

The only slight minus I have come across about natural progesterone cream is

something I heard from my nutritional therapist recently. She said that the

boss of Genova told her quite a few women are now testing with saturated

progesterone levels (implying that some are either using too much in their

daily doses, or they are taking it for longer than they need, causing a

build-up). As far as I understand it, there is no 'danger' with a build-up

other than you can't get rid of any excess quickly should you need to.

Jackie

<I understood most problems and risks of cancer etc are to do with estrogen

dominance,

>what known risks are there with progesterone?

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>Does anyone have any experience of using the above?

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