Any of you ladies used a unprocessed progeterone cream?
What did you use if for and what results did you have, virtuous or bad?
I'm going through "the change" and enjoy been reading up on it. I a moment ago started using Pro-Gest, but really haven't notice anything. I grasp it could take a few months.
Just wondering something like anyone else's personal experiences.
Answers:
When did you get your first spell?
The over-the-counter stuff isn't very influential. You need prescription trait that you get from an endocrinologist and/or compounding pharmacy. It's possible your doctor might be capable of write a prescription for it, but most are clueless. Look for a hormone specialist or endocrinologist in your town.
Once you get the pharmaceutical class, you'll feel for a moment bit of a change every sunshine, and the after about 8 weeks, you'll realize how virtuous you feel.
Read Suzanne Somer's "The Sexy Years" for more info
Do I hold really bad PMS or does this ensue to everyone?
YES I USE RESTORE BALANCE CREME. IT HAS HELPED ME . NO MORE GETTING HOT FLASHES OR SWEATING AT NIGHT. NO MORE UP AND DOWN MOOD SWINGS. I HAVE BEEN USING IT FOR 3 YEARS NOW.Dear Dr. Lee
(Excerpts from The John R. Lee M.D. Medical Letter, by John R. Lee, M.D.)
Q. My psychiatrist said it was estrogen that be the “happy hormone” not progesterone, and too much progesterone can cause depression. I be curious on your viewpoint because I’m audible range the opposite, that progesterone is the “happy pill”. I hold bipolar, general anxiety and frenzy disorders and currently taking meds for these disorders.
A. There is no such thing as a “happy pill” and the sooner we adjectives figure that out the happier we’ll be! Your psychiatrist is not alone contained by being so misinformed going on for estrogen and progesterone. If you’re deficient contained by estrogen, supplementing it can help perk up your brain function. However, it is equally true that an excess of estrogen can raison d`être anxiety. Progesterone in excess can bring depression in some women. However, the overall effect of progesterone is sedative. It is hormone balance that will contribute to mental/emotional symmetry.
Please read our…PREmenopause book for detailed info on the effects of the various hormones - and you might consider getting a copy for your psychiatrist, too!
Q. I’ve be on natural hormones for around 10 years now; I use colloquial progesterone and estrogen (tri-estrogen) and have be doing very resourcefully on them. It’s well prearranged that “xenoestrogens” come at us from many sources. Has anyone researched whether the estrogen receptor sites within the body might preferentially take fluent estrogens over these xenoestrogens (or synthetic estrogens)? If they do, it would seem logical to supply some intuitive estrogen too, if only to “discourage” the estrogens we don’t want.
A. There’s no such research that I know of on this topic, but it’s an interesting ask. Xenoestrogens are toxic petrochemical compounds that have be found in animal studies to conduct yourself something like estrogen. They may occupy estrogen receptors but they may also be toxic contained by ways that are not receptor- related. The chief threat from xenoestrogens is to the embryo, whose differentiating cells are outstandingly sensitive to xenoestrogen toxicity. Xenoestrogens are all lubricant soluble and very slow to break down surrounded by the environment. Over time, our body fat accumulate xenoestrogens. However, the concentrations are really very low and it is difficult to show that any one dose does impair to adults. It is the babies that women are carrying in early pregnancy who are most at risk of twist from xenoestrogens.
Phytoestrogens are plant compounds that have a in poor health estrogenic effect. It is thought that they can occupy estrogen receptors and therefore protect against one’s own estrogen, except balanced by progesterone. I believe harmonizing with progesterone is more beneficial than phytoestrogens but some populace seem to do ably with phytoestrogens.
The synthetic progestins should never be used. Even the estrogens that we engender endogenously (in the body) are dangerous unless properly on the edge by progesterone.
Q. I thought perhaps you would want to permit your older ladies know that Medicare will reward for saliva tests. The passageway it is done is that the doctor makes up a prescription near the names of the hormones to be tested ( I let somebody know my doctor which ones I want to test), then the woman sends the prescription along near a front and back copy of her Medicare card surrounded by the kit she have used and her doctor is sent the results. She can get a copy for her files from her doctor. My doctor simply likes blood test and I let him help yourself to all that he desires but I pay attention to the results of the saliva test.
A. Thanks for sending on this information. It’s a wonderful example of someone who has erudite herself and has found a approach to work with her doctor that have a good outcome for both of them.
Q. My husband have prostate cancer and his doctor has recommended that he purloin a drug that will block all of his hormones because, he say, testosterone causes prostate cancer. But afterwards a friend gave me a 1999 issue of your newsletter, and you recommend taking testosterone. When I asked my doctor around this, he said that all the studies show that testosterone cause prostate cancer. Now I'm confused...
A. Your doctor has read singular some of the studies. A thorough search of published studies on prostate cancer and hormones shows no consistency: some show large testosterone in men beside prostate cancer, others show normal or low testosterone. Chemical castration usually stops the progression of the cancer for a few years, but it's a intervening fix.
Testosterone levels within men are highest when they are immature, and decline slowly with age, and even so prostate cancer is virtually unknown in childish men. If testosterone were cause prostate cancer, wouldn't it follow that young men would be getting it at a high rate? Others blame the conversion of testosterone in elder men to dihydrotestosterone, (DaT), but again, this association is not consistent. The latest life-size study out of Finland (Cancer 1999 Jul 15;86(2):3125) looked at hormone levels contained by a population of men over a period of 24 years and found no association between prostate cancer and level of testosterone, other male or hormones or sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). The jury is still out.
Q. I have two mastectomies and just celebrated 20 years free from breast cancer. I have a hysterectomy and my ovaries removed after problems with incontinence and a tailed bladder pull. I've had 13 surgeries since 1981, for plentiful health problems. Then I read your book and threw out the estrogen, motrin, inderal, synthroid, elavil, and the schedule goes on. All I embezzle now is progesterone cream. Here is a register of my recovery: hot flashes cease, thyroid returning to normal, fibromyalgia strain greatly reduced, asthma left straight away, not retaining water, blisters surrounded by throat are gone, went from three hours of sleep a dark to six hours. I'm so grateful for your work helping women.
A. Thanks for the great letter. I'm sure it will be an inspiration to several other women. It takes courage to drop such an arsenal of drugs, but it sounds resembling you're doing well. For adjectives reference, I do recommend going bad all drugs deeply gradually!
Q. I be sent an e-mail saying that antiperspirants end in breast cancer. Is there any research to subsidise this up?
A. There isn't specific research that I know of linking anti-perspirants and breast cancer, but the link does make adjectives sense. Perspiration is one of your most important avenues of detoxification, and the underarms are located on and around the lymph nodes located around the breast. Lymph nodes are significant avenues of detoxification for the breast. Antiperspirants also contain chemicals of dubious safety, and as users of progesterone creams are aware, we readily hold your attention many substances through the skin. Rubbing chemicals of unknown toxicity on the lymph nodes and subsequent to the breasts every day doesn't give the impression of being wise when considered surrounded by this context. At the very lowest, use deodorants, not anti-perspirants. Even better, find an herbal deodorant that works for you. One of the most effective are the "crystal rock" variety.
Q. Thanks to the information in your book, my husband and I were competent to conceive after three years of unsuccessful attempts. After the second fertility specialist told us to give it up (I be too old, etc.), I started using progesterone cream and the herb Vitex. We conceived smaller number than a month later! I'm due within two days. How much progesterone cream should I use to help near the postpartum emotional roller coaster, and aver my overall well-being?
A. My philosophy is that if it isn't broken, don't fix it. If you don't have any symptoms after conferral your body is doing its job. If you do experience post-partum depression it's fine to try a regular physiologic dose of progesterone cream (15 to 20 mg daily) three weeks out of the month, as long as your milk production is adequate for nursing. (See closing month's letters - October 1999 - for details on progesterone and prolactin.)
How can i settle to my mom about my personal duration?
Progesterone Cream does have its side effects - even inbred progesterone since it is a synthetically produced product. Excessive use of progesterone cream results in disruption of other hormones in the body.It is suggested to reduce the usage of the cream after the adrenal hormones normalize. Using progesterone cream involves some drastic change in the lifestyle of the user. Diet must be controlled and hasty sleep is a must for the cream to be effective.
Using progesterone cream results in giant level of progesterone surrounded by the body which might create a number of complications. Proper dosage is fundamentally important.
There are some especially effective adjectives natural supplements that you might want to look into.
Hope this is compliant and feel free to contact me near questions.
