Re: Progesterone - more complex issues

I've been studying progesterone since 1980 and probably spent several thousands of hours in libraries, in Pubmed, consulting with many practitioners, as well as years participating in user-groups on this subject.

I agree with Vulcanel about stabilizing your cycles for three months --BUT after that, if I were you, I would use low dose transdermal progesterone until you conceive and then intravaginal progesterone during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage.

A naturopath should be able to advise you on these. Also, some progressive MDs know about this subject.

Just because progesterone has been over-prescribed, doesn't mean it's not appropriate in many cases.

Ideally, it would be great to see if any "upstream" cause may have contributed to a hormonal imbalance. You could spend a year or two detoxing and preparing for a pregnancy.

But you may NEVER find an upstream cause.

There may be a congenital progesterone defect, there may be a resistant bacteria such as gardnerella scavenging progesterone from the ovaries, or numerous other scenarios.

If you want a baby, I wouldn't stand on the principle that hormone supplementation is wrong. That is way too sweeping a principle, IMO, and more importantly, has not been proved.

Please keep us posted.



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