Re: compounded natural progesterone

[Guest guest]

I've used natural compounded progesterone with

relative success and no side effects. If you want more

info, check out the archives or email me directly.

I've posted the info a number of times. I write

" relative " success because it didn't completely stop

my heavy periods but it did help me recover from

anemia, and I liked using it more than bcps

(Loestrin).

Anne-Marie

[Guest guest]

> I've used natural compounded progesterone with

> relative success and no side effects. If you want more

> info, check out the archives or email me directly.

> I've posted the info a number of times. I write

> " relative " success because it didn't completely stop

> my heavy periods but it did help me recover from

> anemia, and I liked using it more than bcps

> (Loestrin).

>

> Anne-Marie

Hi,

I will probably do a search to get more information about the

natural progesterone but am wondering if you can tell me more

about the heavy bleeding? Was it significantly better than without

the progsterone? Did you also experience less cramping/clots?

Were you able to function normally during your period? Thanks

so much for the information - kathy

[Guest guest]

Let me also reply, since I have been posting about

natural progesterone. I have been taking natural

progesterone for several years. It regulated my

periods enough so that heavy bleeding episodes I had

earlier were avoided. I took 100 mg twice a day. I had

spotting and regular periods, but nothing I couldn't

live with. In the last several months, heavy periods

with clotting and uncontrollable bleeding have come

back. Several times I have bled for about five hours

and become faint and then, anemic. After I read

Anne-Marie's posts about the strength of the

progesterone she was taking, I started taking

more-200mg, twice a day. It has seemed to make a

difference in the spotting. I haven't had a period

since I started this extra dose, so I can't report on

whether it stops the heavy bleeding. I think it may. I

am seeing my nurse practioner next Tues. So I will

report on what she says. As I have said before, I am

post-menopausal, still producing estrogen at almost

61,

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/15/02 10:21:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,

susanloubet@... writes:

> As I have said before, I am

> post-menopausal, still producing estrogen at almost

> 61,

>

Sorry if you've posted about this before. . . Menopause means not having a

period for one year. If you're still having periods, how could you be

post-menopausal?

Cheryl

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/16/02 10:10:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time,

susanloubet@... writes:

> The ob/gyn keeps referring to me as postmenopausal

> with postmenopausal bleeding, because of my FSH level.

>

I'm sort of in the same situation. I last saw my gyn at the beginning of

November. He did a blood hormone level in which the FSH came back 40. The

cut off for menopause that his lab uses is 25. He's going to be surprised to

find out that I started another cycle on Dec. 12.

Cheryl

[Guest guest]

The ob/gyn keeps referring to me as postmenopausal

with postmenopausal bleeding, because of my FSH level.

She finally agreed that maybe it was perimenopausal.

--- SiCanto@... wrote:

> In a message dated 12/15/02 10:21:34 PM US Mountain

> Standard Time,

> susanloubet@... writes:

>

>

> > As I have said before, I am

> > post-menopausal, still producing estrogen at

> almost

> > 61,

> >

>

> Sorry if you've posted about this before. . .

> Menopause means not having a

> period for one year. If you're still having

> periods, how could you be

> post-menopausal?

> Cheryl

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

[Guest guest]

My FSH was 35.5 in 1999 and 49.5 this year, but

estradiol was 33.3 this year. They give the range of

untreated menopausal as 1.14-19, so I am clearly way

above that and when I pointed that out, she agreed I

was peri-menopausal.

[Guest guest]

,

What day of your cycle do you check your hormone level?

[Guest guest]

This was done by a blood test ordered by the doctor,

not saliva and it was done the day before I started a

period.

--- oke@... wrote:

> ,

> What day of your cycle do you check your hormone

> level?

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I found that it did help with the heavy bleeding over

time but I still had very heavy periods and clotting

for at least 3 to 4 days out of a total of maybe 5 or

6 days of bleeding. The benefits I liked about using

the natural progesterone caps was that I didn't have

as much spotting in between periods. Before I started

taking it, I had found out I was critically anemic

(hgb 6 and hct 21) and I had been bleeding for 6 weeks

straight by that point. By changing my diet, taking

iron supplementation and the natural progesterone, my

periods got better over time and I had much less mid

cylce spotting and bleeding.

Anne-Marie