Hi There,

I thought I'd weigh in. I didn't use the oral form, I used a bioidentical progesterone cream, but it did have strong positive and negative effects post removal. I used it for three months, and for the first two, it helped IMMENSELY. Like, within a day or so my insomnia was gone, my IBS was 50% better, and my heartburn/reflux dissappeared within weeks.

However, after 3 months of use, I started getting horrible brain fog, blurred vision, many of my Mirena problems returned (UTI's, yeast infections, joint pain), and felt horribly nauseaus all the time. I stopped using the cream after the 3rd month, but it has taken over a year off the cream for these symptoms to disappear.

However, from what I have read, the cream has a much longer half-life than oral progesterone, because it stores itself in your fat and tissues where you rub it in. Oral progesterone is leaves the bloodstream in a few days. I would say, use this, since it can be really helpful, but if you start getting new symptoms or your Mirena symptoms return, definitely think about stopping.

You can look though my posts if you're interested in my experience with bioidentical progesterone cream. I have made a lot of comments about it. I think Melanderoso used it for a short time as well, then stopped because of side effects.

Good luck! Molly

Hey girl,

So I was just wondering how your doing since on the bio-identical hormone this month? I had a really good month, only 2-3 off days. I say off days and not bad days because they didn't hinder my day where as before my bad days ment I couldn't do normal things. Was actually surprised when I started my period cause it didn't come with a week of anxiety and panic attacks.

Please update us on how you are doing, I am reading past post of a few years ago and the girls were recovering when taken the bio-identical hormone. YAY on the right track...I think I might post some of the recovery stories of those girls to encourage some of the girls to really look into getting their hormones checked but not from a normal physician but a naturopath or specialist in hormones and that advocate bio-identical plant based without any synthetic hormone.

I thank the lord that he led me on the right track and he is keeping me healthy.
God Bless