Re: Low pregnenolone - Lynn

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> middle of the night with heart palps, accompanied by a hot sweats

and later

> with cool, clammy sweats. That was it for me, but I am the

sensitive sort.

> However, after researching I found out that Preg can, indeed, cause

heart

> palps for some so a starting dosage of 5 mg was recommended.

-----> Yes I saw all that! Did you happen to find out why it causes

all these problems?

I've not gotten any yet to try.

Lynn

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> Before I went on to the WP in November 04, I had taken 100mg

Pregnenolone and 50 mg DHEA per day. It kept me going, but when my

hormone values were measured, estrogen and Progesterone were

practicqally non-existent.

-------> I saw one of my doctors, an endochronogist and asked him

about it. He said he doesn't ever bother with that test as he thinks

its really not valid for much.

I might experiment later with some low doses of pregnanolone and see

what happens. For now I seem to be okay on what I'm doing.

Thanks for the feedback!

Lynn

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Oh boy. Reading this is not making me happy as I'm thinking of

stopping my Biest sublinguals and just taking DHEA every day. I'm

tired of bleeding to death just because I took too much biest

without using the damned P. But if 50 mg of DHEA showed non-

existent levels of hormones, I don't know what to think now.

>

> Before I went on to the WP in November 04, I had taken 100mg

Pregnenolone and 50 mg DHEA per day. It kept me going, but when my

hormone values were measured, estrogen and Progesterone were

practicqally non-existent.

> Charlotte

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Hi Lynn, (or anyone)

I am considering taking DHEA due to my constant fatigue, not severe

but bad enough. I take Estradiol and Progesterone on cream. I don't

think I am low on E or high on P.

I am thinking adding DHEA may help my low energy. Do you know a good

DHEA supplement and where to get it? It's confusing since so many

DHEA products out there.

I appreciate if you would let me know what DHEA you take.

sarah

>

> > Before I went on to the WP in November 04, I had taken 100mg

> Pregnenolone and 50 mg DHEA per day. It kept me going, but when my

> hormone values were measured, estrogen and Progesterone were

> practicqally non-existent.

>

>

> -------> I saw one of my doctors, an endochronogist and asked him

> about it. He said he doesn't ever bother with that test as he

thinks

> its really not valid for much.

>

> I might experiment later with some low doses of pregnanolone and

see

> what happens. For now I seem to be okay on what I'm doing.

>

> Thanks for the feedback!

>

> Lynn

>

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Hi ,

Thank you for the information in Dr. Redmond's book. I actually have

that book but only skimmed it and missed that important information.

I still have not figured out exactly what causes my spotting and

breakthrough bleeding. My estrogen fluctuates quite a bit during the

month and it is often hard for me to keep a consistent level without

having low estrogen symptoms more than I would like. Also, I think I

am making some of my own progesterone but it seems to drop off too

quickly. If my progesterone supplementation is not on time and the

right dose, I get spotting or breakthrough bleeding. I do not like

the way I feel on progesterone so I have been trying to tweak it too

much I think. This month I wanted to see if I could extend my cycle

by a couple of days and I also wanted to try oral progesterone instead

of vaginal progesterone. So instead of a period at day 28 I got it at

day 21. The two days of 200 mg of oral progesterone was too little

and too late to maintain my lining. If I would have started my

vaginal progesterone on time instead of trying oral progesterone three

days late I am sure I would have been able to go another week. I need

to figure out a way to know if and when I start producing my own

progesterone each month so that I can start supplementing early enough

to prevent the spotting or breakthrough bleeding that occurs when it

drops off. I am going to try taking my temp every morning before I

get up to see if I get a spike when my progesterone production starts

(as soon as I can replace my thermometer that I lost). I used to have

other symptoms of progesterone production but those are no longer

consistent.

Kathy

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>

> Kathy,

> Thank you for your detailed infroamtion on DHEA. I look forward to

> try it out.

>

> Kathy, this may give you some idea to

> Your question about continuing progesterone after early breakthrough

> bleeding. Dr.Geoffrey Redmond (endocrinologist) also believes

> finishing the progesterone to protect our uterus.

> Below is the quote form Dr. Redmond's book " The hormonally

> Vulnerable Women " .

>

> " Most typically these (periods) start about two days after you

> finish the medication (progesterone), but they can begin earlier,

> while you are still taking it. When this happens, you still need to

> finish out the twelve days to get the cancer protection. "

>

> I get breakthrough bleeding some time too, and I wasn't sure whether

> stop taking progesterone or not until I read on Dr. Schwarzbein's

> Webpage and Dr. Redmond's book.

> By the way, my early breakthrough was caused by low on estrogen

> relative to progesterone.

>

> He also said some interesting thing like this.

> " If you are on a very low dose of estrogens, you may not have

> noticeable bleeding after finishing the progesterone. This is

> nothing to worry about; what is important is that your uterus be

> exposed to the anticancer effect of progesterone, not you bleed. "

>

> I was on a very low dose of estrogen last year and no bleeding even

> taking my progesterone 200mg a day on 14 days. I worried a lots!

>

> Hope this helps.

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