progesterone cream?

[Guest guest]

I use the progesterone cream with only partial success. I think it is b/c my thyroid is not at optimum dose and therefore, my adrenals are under a lot of stress. Others may feel otherwise. I know that after menopause that the adrenals produce alot (can't remember the percent now, but it may be over half) or the sex hormones. If you're like me and have had a hysterectomy, that's all you get. Even if they left your ovaries intact, two to three years afterward they are dead b/c the blood supply is cut off. Anyway, sex hormone production as far as adrenals are concerned is sort of on the bottom of the totem pole. So if your adrenals are stressed, on a percentage basis, not only are they putting out less cortisol, etc they are putting out even less, if any, of the sex horomones. So you can have that imbalance. I belong to a natural hormone replacement group and some of the women do the cream and everything is perfect. Others struggle with it. I wonder if they are like me, hypo first which leads to adrenal fatigue which perhaps leads to hormonal imbalance. So very many of the women in that group that prescribe their symptoms sound so hypo. I have posted links to this group there before and I think a few have come over.

Also if you think about it that is similar to what people say about us..... "They push armour as a cure for EVERYTHING and that makes me skeptical"

I think we need to look at the whole endocrine system, not just thyroid, not just adarenal, etc. Because stress on any one will lead to stress on the other. They are intertwined.

Blessings,

Debbie K.

-----Original Message-----From: edumom Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 8:32 AMTo: The_Thyroid_Support_Group Subject: progesterone cream?

Are these really helpful? They've been a craze among homeschoolers for a while now-you can't go to a convention w/o seeing a seminar or at least a booth all about progesterone, nor open a hsing mag w/o readind at least one ad. I've avoided it because they push it as the cure for EVERYTHING and that makes me nervous.

[Guest guest]

Only use it the last two weeks of your cycle. If you really need progesterone support, the pills or suppositories may be more effective.

progesterone cream?

Are these really helpful? They've been a craze among homeschoolers for a while now-you can't go to a convention w/o seeing a seminar or at least a booth all about progesterone, nor open a hsing mag w/o readind at least one ad. I've avoided it because they push it as the cure for EVERYTHING and that makes me nervous.

[Guest guest]

Only use it the last two weeks of your cycle. If you really need progesterone support, the pills or suppositories may be more effective.

progesterone cream?

Are these really helpful? They've been a craze among homeschoolers for a while now-you can't go to a convention w/o seeing a seminar or at least a booth all about progesterone, nor open a hsing mag w/o readind at least one ad. I've avoided it because they push it as the cure for EVERYTHING and that makes me nervous.

[Guest guest]

Only use it the last two weeks of your cycle. If you really need progesterone support, the pills or suppositories may be more effective.

progesterone cream?

Are these really helpful? They've been a craze among homeschoolers for a while now-you can't go to a convention w/o seeing a seminar or at least a booth all about progesterone, nor open a hsing mag w/o readind at least one ad. I've avoided it because they push it as the cure for EVERYTHING and that makes me nervous.