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| 5 | BPH and Prostatitis | None from progesterone. | My urologist had put me on Proscar (finasteride, 5 mg) for my BPH (enlarged prostate) and severe prostatitis. It did help, but the side effects were unbearable: depression, anxiety, weight gain, insomnia, loss of libido, shrunken penis, difficulty getting and keeping an erection, dry and painful ejaculations. I then read about research done by Dr. Lee, who discovered that natural progesterone can cure many prostate problems. I purchased and have been using a natural progesterone USP cream, 1/8 teaspoon applied 2x/day directly to my scrotum, and have had amazing results. No more nasty side effects, no more BPH, no more prostatitis, no more pain! It has worked wonders for me. Most doctors will not tell men about its benefits because either (1) they are uninformed, or (2) they know they can't get a kickback from a drug company, since natural progesterone is not a prescription drug. Needless to say, I flushed my remaining Proscar down the toilet and fired my urologist! | M | 57 | 60 days | 5/30/2007 | 5 | missed periods severe hot flashes ; | the worst side effect for me after using for a month is very sore breast nipples. the first two weeks I WAS STARVINGbut that is betterand Iwas fatter in the stomach but that is better since m using only one eighth of a teaspoon now. I also have more enery but dont like the soreness in breast nipples. | I noticed you take as little as possible and it works without as many side effects. Itdid solve my horrid hotflahes and that crazy feeling with menopause and peri-menopause. Im going to give it a chance but Idont get this soreness in breast. I had problems for years with cramps,heavy bleeding,pms, food cravingschocolate,cyst on ovary,headaches you name it.I had it with my period, and once Ihad a pre-cancerous pap smear. I wish I would of knew about this cream then. This cream is a cheap cream from walmart but it has chemicals in it I DONT LIKE SO i m going to try a paraben free formula next.Its worth a try If you were getting like me and not funtioning wellwith depression and all that other female junk!!!!!! | M | 52 | 1 months | 12/2/2009 | 4 | used to restart menstruation | Slight nausea, bloating and fluid retention, sore breasts | The drug was used to end my amenorrhea and get my cycle going again. It did the trick! | M | 30 | 5 days | 10/18/2002 | 4 | heavy and prolonged bleeding | immediate weight gain | otherwise, it saved my life as i'd been bleeding for 53 days prior with large clots. it stopped on my third tablet. not looking to take it long term at all as the weight gain and my appetite is frightening! going to have my D&C in two days time, hopefully i'll work. if not maybe surgery. meanwhile, hoping chinese herbs and acupumcture will regulate my problem (much safer and no side effects!) | M | 51 | 11 days | 9/18/2006 | 3 | for PMS symptoms | I've been taking this for less than one cycle, so I'm not sure how I'll react to it in the long run. I'm using Kokoro cream. It's a bioidentical cream made from wild yams. I'm using one pump per day. According to the bottle you can use two pumps per day, but I'm trying the low dose to see what it does. So far I feel okay, but I noticed I'm more apt to get teary-eyed. Not sure what that means, but I thought this cream was supposed to balance my moods, not make them worse. | For people posting here, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO SAY WHAT TYPE/BRAND OF PROGESTERONE YOU'RE USING. The synthetic forms prescribed by many doctors are known to cause horrible side effects, whereas I've heard that the bioidentical form found in many OTC creams do not. Doctors can also prescribe bioidentical progesterone. Please help people further by listing what type/brand of progesterone you're using. It would be interesting to see if the people with the most extreme side effects are using the synthetic progesterone. Also, an informative link re: natural progesterone: www.mercola.com/article/progesterone/cream.htm | M | 37 | 10 days | 7/14/2008 | 2 | preimenopause | Weight gain around stomach, hungry, swollen breasts, extreme fatigue, teary. | I, too, am glad I found this site. After only 4 days on Femgest, I feel like an entirely different person...and not a good one! I would continue taking it to see if it truly helps mood and irritability, but I don't know if I can stay awake long enough (or in my pant size) to find out! | M | 45 | 4 days | 10/27/2008 | 2 | IUD - Mirena | Angry Mood Swings, sometimes tense and frustrated with everything and everyone! It certainly works as a birth control but the side effects are not worth the control method. Experinced some blood spotting, but only 2 days out of 2 months, never got my period at all, have just had the Mirena taken out because I cannot bare the mood swings anymore. Had the mirena for just under 2 years and never had a full period the whole time. | It doesnt work for me, makes me angry, unrational, frustrated and depressed. | M | 32 | 2 years | 1/21/2009 | 2 | Uterine Lining Buildup | I was given progesterone because I am using Vagifem (vaginal estrogen) and the doctor said I should use progesterone once a year to keep the uterine lining from buildig up (unopposed estrogen). I took it and what a mess! I took it for 2 weeks and my breasts became painful, back ache, hemorrhoids, headaches, water weight, UTI....all the things you get when you are pregnant (because it is the prenancy hormone). I felt horrible. It then goes away after my cycle but has returned each month for the past 4 months each time my cycle is due. Each time the symptoms come back, they are less than the month before. All this from 2 weeks of progesterone (pill form). I hope it gets out of my system soon. | M | 48 | 14 days 100mg 1X day | 2/18/2010 | 2 | hot flashes/menopause | abdominal weight gain. | It seemed to be working for the first month..slowly, I noticed I couldn't zip my pants. The weight is all in my abdomen. I work out daily, eat a healthy diet. It is like having severe water retention, stomach is distended, horrible. Told my doctor it is not worth it. Off the cream for 1 week, feel much better. | M | 48 | 5 months 1/8 tsp 2X day | 3/30/2010 | 2 | menopause | Headaches, weight gain, disorientation, breast enlargement | Initially, seemed like a godsend. Energy level increased dramatically within 2-3 days. Felt great Month 1-4 but by Month 5 severe headaches kicked in. I mean crippling, migraine-like & I don't suffer from headaches at all. Gained weight that would not come off despite diet & exercise. Dizzy & out of it some days. And breast enlargement, I don't need, I'm 'blessed' enough. I would advise intermittent use, for 1-8 weeks when you're feeling exceptionally run down but use cautiously. Eat well, exercise and manage stress -- that truly works!! | M | 53 | 6 months 20 mg 1X day | 6/28/2010 | 2 | menopause | calmness, clearer mind, weightgain | I experienced an early menopause at 37 i started having abnormal periods which caused alot of excess estrogen. along with feeling awful, terrible weight gain. I was really a wreck. I took progesterone and it was a life saver. It balanced me out. I got off of it at some point and now years later I am in full menopause. Knowing the need and benefits of progesterone and my age 42, with early menopause, I decided to get back on it. I guess now since I do not have as much estrogen, it is horrible. Gives my immune system chaos, sinus and yes. weight gain in one month. My jeans do not fit right. Hips, butt, thighs gaining!! I was very thin and athletic. I cant take it! It is probably the inital extrogen receptors waking up, and I know you have to have estrogen to balance each other. It seems very slim women just do not have as much to balance out. Menopause is terrible!! | M | 42 | 7 days 2% 1X day | 1/8/2011 | 1 | I was using Progest cream with a supposed 50 to 100 Mg a day via one pump or two. Brought on the worst hot flashes I have had in 2 years. Feel anxious,bitchy, nauseated, stomach and digestion problems and bloated. I am 53 and haven't had a period in two years so I am post menopausel. I am throwing this cream away today. I was fine, just hoping to get more zip, so now I know I have to exercise again 5 days a week and eat super healthy to get in better shape. There is no QUICK fix. | I suggest a saliva test and consult with a doctor first before you start this cream | M | 53 | 4 days 50 1X day | 4/9/2010 | 1 | Estrogen Dominence/PMDD | ANGER, Irritability, depression, sore breasts, acne, spotting. | I can't believe it took me 3 months to figure out that the progesterone cream was ruining my life. I kept reading forums saying that all of those side effects were because my hormones were finally evening out. EFF THAT! I waited, like a dummy, for 3 months and everything got wayyyy worse. The only thing that made it better was getting off of it!! And it's been a few months and my body is still working on getting back to normal. After that experience, I'll take PMS or PMDD over severe depression, anger etc., any day!! | M | 26 | 3 months 30 MG 1X day | 7/5/2012 | 1 | trying to fix underlying problems | Had problems with progesterone, and you don't know why? First, look at why you would take progesterone in the first place: horrible periods? Horrible PMS? Horrible menopause? These are all SYMPTOMS of underlying problems. So trying to "fix" the underlying problems are like trying to buy a fan to rid yourself of the smoke, and not buying the water that drowns the fire instead. For me, I took progesterone after a doctor told me that my progesterone levels were too low. Failing to look at WHY my progesterone levels (at the age of 35) were low, I was convinced that I should take the progesterone. I became very miserable. I could not drive. I could not think. I could not sleep. I could not eat many foods without feeling horrible. You see, years ago, I was drinking a lot of Starbucks-- the coffee, and the green tea. Green Tea contains tons of fluoride, and coffee contains many things that raise your cortisol levels. (Fluoride is very poisonous). So when you are under a lot of stres | Guess what? You are not supposed to have any progesterone bc you are DONE with having kids! If you want to feel better, HEAL your ADRENALS!So, now what do you do??? First and foremost, stop ALL of the hormones. Quit trying to outsmart mother nature by balancing this and that with taking thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, TH3, HGH.... stop everything! The best thing ever is JUICING. NOT pasteurized juice, but juice your own organic LIVE juice. Juice things that are red, green, orange, purple.... mix it up! You will feel like a human again in 8 months, and in 18 months, you will be healed. Learn the lesson, and heed the warnings: don't take anymore hormones... BIO IDENTICAL HRT is a scam. Trust mother nature; not a chemist that makes money off of you, and your pain. Your healing time is 9-18 months from the time that you have stopped taking ALL hormones that are man made. | M | 39 | 10 weeks | 5/23/2009 | 1 | for HRT | Dizziness, Anxiety | I have been on hormone cream with DHEA, Progesterone, and Testosterone since Jan 2008. I started having indigestion in January, which I had never had before. I was burping with every swallow of food or beverage. In March I began feeling like my head was heavy, and dizzy with upset stomach. They found my potassium low and put me on a supplement. Within 2 weeks my potassium went up, but my calcium was high. I called the pharmacy that provided my cream and ask if anything in it would cause dizziness or my potassium or calcium levels to change. She advised no. My urine began to change, sometimes I would go a lot and other times I could not hardly go. My urine test showed high white blood cells but the culture came back with nothing. I went to another HRT pharmacy and showed them my prescription. The pharmacist said she was adding 5mg daily of DHEA and that seemed like a lot. He made me another month of cream with half 2.5 daily. I took it for 3 days and wanted to go off the dhea completely. I used the cream without DHEA for 4 days, until my appointment with a OBGYN, she said the progesterone would make me dizzy not the DHEA and to go off all of it immediately and that the DHEA would deplete my potassium. I have had no cream since May 27th, (13 days). I had anxiety before, but it is much worse now and my blood Pressure is going up. | M | 44 | 1 years | 6/8/2009 | 5 | Menopause/ aching breasts | Slight insomnia and feeling overwelmed during the first two weeks | I started using the Progestacare plus cream when I was 43 because my breasts were very painful. It completely relieved the synthoms. I only used a small amount in the evening and never gained any weight. I had my last period six months ago and three weeks ago I started getting hot flushes (up to 15 times a day) and night sweats. For a change I decided to switch to Progesterall and I have been taking it twice a day (size of a pea) for the last three weeks. The menopausal synthoms have gone completely. I have gained 2 kgs over the last two years, but during this period I have been so busy with work and some days I sit from 8 am to bedtime: so all in all it could be worse! | F | 50 | 7 years | 6/7/2009 | 5 | PMS, anxiety, OCD, estrogen dominan | At first, I had an exacerbation of my estrogen dominant symptoms. It was hard, but I had to ride it out. I think the women on here who had worsening effects of progesterone were experiencing a re-awakening of estrogen receptors. Many women WILL feel worse at first, but once this period of re-awakening is over, the benefits are tremendous. | My hirsutism is noticeably better, my anxiety is lessened, my OCD is better, and I no longer need thyroid hormone. I also take 5 mg of DHEA and occasionally, a very low dose of cortisone. | F | 37 | 11 months | 6/27/2009 | 5 | night sweats & hot flashes | No bad side effects. Mostly positive. Sure beats horse urine in Premarin. I did not lose weight although some have. | I used several brands including Progesterall and am buying it again. It eliminated my hot flashes & night sweats. But I am concerned about bone loss and this is supposed to help that. (Sally Fields's Boniva causes cancer) So progesterone cream is tri-fold: prevent breast cancer, bone loss & night sweats. On my week off, I notice the night sweats are back. I recommend it. | F | 57 | 4 years | 4/10/2009 | 5 | Because my ovaries were removed | Could not sleep, had restless leg syndrome, hot flashes, heart attack symptoms and felt like I was going crazy due to my ovaries being removed. | I use the natural Progesterone Cream one can buy at Walmart in the vitamin section and it works great without any side effects and I also use it for SCIATIC pain relief, fibromyalgia, joints, knee and arthritis pain and my neck pain due to falling. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it and have only experienced very good benefits and so has everyone else I have shared this with too. We do NOT use any prescription progesterone ...ONLY the one sold by WalMart, Dr. Lee or some other natural progesterone cream. It also keeps my hair from falling out and thinning (when I don't use it.. I notice my hair falls out) and use it for my face and ands and it keeps the skin very soft and young looking. The reason it takes pain away such as headaches and fibroymalgia is cause it works on the mylean sheath on our bodies is the way Dr. Brabham explained it to me. It helps me so much I actually went to the WalMart at 11:30 P.M. so I could put in on my aching neck and shoulder muscles.. and it took pain away within mi | F | 57 | 10 years | 3/6/2009 | 5 | perimenopause | I've been using the natural progesterone cream for about 2 months. I started using it because I have a tendency for ovarian cysts. I cannot say that I have had any negative effects from it. In fact all the side effects are very positive. I've suffered from TMJ for years. I didn't even realize that it had improved until I read somewhere that progesterone cream can help it, I opened and closed my mouth and was amazed - no clicking - no pain. I'm been losing weight, without even trying. My libido has been heightened. And yes, no ovarian cysts. | I read that when a woman is perimenopausal, her estrogen level starts to drop, but not at the same rate or percentage as progesterone. The effect then is that you may have lower estrogen, but you are still estrogen dominant because of not enough progesterone to balance it out. With my positive experiences, I am a believer. I was starting to retain fluid and I was gaining weight around my mid section, that nothing worked to get rid of. I've lost 12 pounds in 2 months without even trying. My appetite is just naturally curbed. Most of that loss has been from my mid section! And there's no more edema in my ankles. | F | 52 | 60 days | 7/23/2008 |
PROGESTERONE (PROGESTERONE): Progesterone is a type of female hormone (progestin). This medication is similar to the progesterone that your body naturally makes and is given to replace the hormone when your body is not making enough of it. In women who are not pregnant and not going through menopause, this medication is used to restore normal menstrual periods that have stopped for several months (amenorrhea). Progesterone is also used as part of combination hormone replacement therapy with estrogens to reduce menopause symptoms (e.g., hot flashes). Progesterone is added to estrogen replacement therapy to reduce the risk of cancer of the uterus. This medication is not for use in children. Progesterone must not be used to test for pregnancy. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)