progesterone dosing

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Creams use smaller amounts (doses) because it takes longer for these amounts

to get to the liver and tissues are exposed to the progesterone for longer and

hence have a greater capacity to take up and utilise the hormone.

Cream dosing is based around the ovary’s ability to produce

between 15-20mg of progesterone daily in a normal healthy woman. Women who are

exposed on a monthly basis to normal progesterone production will find their

body tissues are progesterone replete. A progesterone deficient woman’s tissues

are crying out for progesterone and ‘experts’ have found a dose of around

30-40mg (4% cream) daily will achieve a better and quicker clinical outcome in

these women than drip feeding 5-10mg daily. Symptoms tend to settle once body

tissues are progesterone replete, at which point dosing can usually be reduced

to physiological levels (2% cream).

From:

rhythmicliving [mailto:rhythmicliving ] On

Behalf Of Lori Milas

Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:05 PM

To: rhythmicliving

Subject: Re: New here, intoducing myself

Hi,

I rarely tune into this board, but I wanted to respond to

Lila. I had many of the same symptoms, and also thought it might be an

environmental issue in my house. It was, in part. I discovered

through some fortunate luck that I had very high levels of formaldehyde

in my home. I did a preliminary test on a summer day,

and since that test showed excedingly high levels on average, I asked an

Environmental Hygienist from Berkeley to come to my house and test it for

" everything " . She did.

She spent six hours with fancy equipment, testing every

piece of furniture, every wall, etc. At the end of that time I got a shopping

list of things in my house that were " off gassing " . Almost all

of my bedroom furniture was emitting formaldehyde to cause my bedroom to be

dangerously high. That's where I sleep, of course, so that explains the

exhaustion, fatigue, depression, sore throats, upper respiratory, etc.

I have a fairly new home. I never would have suspected

formaldehyde, nor several of the other toxins we found. Since I don't

check in on this board, feel free to email me directly if you want to discuss

it... lrmilas@....

Blessings,

Lori

Hi I'm Lila,

I belong to another yahoo group for thyroid that has been extremely valuable. I

am currently self treating for hypothyroid (caused by high reverse t3)-taking

Cynomel (t3 only). still in process of treating it so i don't know the outcome.

I was diagnosed " ADHD " and take medication for it. the thyroid

discovery gives me hope that i can get off the medication and feel good.

The issues related to the so called ADHD have been with me most of my life and

though not easy, pretty reliable and consistent until about 8 or so months ago

when i started to feel under the weather alot. i also started having severe

insomnia (very unusual for me) and trouble breathing, i cleaned my house

thinking it was mold and dust. the breathing problem went away i did feel

better for a while but still don't feel right. sometimes it was just headaches

and tiredness... and i was able to sleep but it has never been very restful

since.

Well now the headaches are severe and i have a low-grade fever, i have aches

and just feel horrible- this is the past few months.

Also this summer i had two teeth break off- within two weeks of each other.

they had had root canals, but still very strange. turns out i had dental

infections in 3 areas and I'm getting that taken care of. i thought that

explained my headaches and general yuckiness.

Also my blood sugar gets up to 220, i got diabetes blood tests and i am not

diabetic but sugar is high, insulin production a bit low. (not type 2 and i am

thin). i think maybe i had low insulin previously, but not like this. i think

the blood sugar thing is why i can't sleep.

another thing i notice, i often feel the worst right after my period, in the

past i've always best during this time and pms time was always hardest.

i've read some things about high progesterone lowering insulin production

(maybe due to low estrogen) and also lowered immunity caused by high

progesterone (in the article in this group).

An osteopathic prescribed the progesterone for me a year and a half ago. used

it days 14-26 of cycle. was using the troches (worked up to 400mg for a few

months) and the last few months used the cream (smaller dose).

i am concerned because i don't seem to be healing so well from the root canals

and tooth extraction...and still headaches, fever, achiness (it's been 10

days). I started antibiotics today.

i'm sorry this is so long, maybe alot of TMI, i'm still learning about these

hormones...hard to know what's relevant. i just know my health is going down

hill suddenly.

i will continue to read thru the info and will probably post some questions.

Thanks for having a group for this, it's a complicated topic! Lila

ps. i don't have adrenal fatigue, did the saliva tests... so ruled that out.

--

Lori Milas

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Westshore Lien Management

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