Progesterone supplements when did you start taking

[orangeloo]

Hi, if anyone supplemented with progesterone on a natural cycle to conceive when were you told to start taking? My clinic has said when I get my LH surge. I thought it would be a day or two after. TIA x

Hi - do you find they work?
The reason I ask is because I fell pregnant in February, I did not know I was pregnant and my progesterone was well below what it should have been (it was 0.6).
Baby survived until 7 weeks 3 days but the heart beat stopped and at 12 weeks I had to have a D&C.
Does Progesterone help keep a baby a live throughout the first trimester?

@liana21 I'm sorry for your loss. It's my first month taking them. I think there is no solid evidence it will and miscarriage is complicated and could occur with or with healthy progesterone levels.

Thanks. I have a phone appointment with a fertility clinic today. Hoping they can offer some kind of help to stop me having to go through this again. I can't handle another missed miscarriage.
What concerns me is how low my progesterone is and was, and that they offered no help whatsoever.

@liana21 yes completely understandable. I'm no doctor but sounds like maybe you should be on it from ovulation. I hope they offer you some help or way forward x

Thanks - wish you all the best.
Also, the nurse told me to take baby aspirin daily. Not sure how much this can help but she seemed pretty certain it has helped women in the past avoid mc

I had to start taking it two days after a positive OPK.

Hope that helps, and good luck! It absolutely did the trick for me (had a short luteal phase).

There's not much evidence that progesterone supplementation actually works. I take it because I've had several early losses and they prescribe it routinely where I live. I track my ovulation with OPKs and temping and I start taking it once I've had three high temperatures and I'm sure I've definitely ovulated. If you take it too soon it can stop you from ovulating.

When I say there's not much evidence it works, I mean in terms of preventing early miscarriage. It absolutely will lengthen your luteal phase though.

@liana21 I have heard about aspirin and will bear this in mind. thank you and to you also x

That sounds more like what I thought @dorapie I've only been given 15 days at a time and don't want to run out if I get a BFP fingers crossed. Thanks x

@peperethecat yes I'm taking it for conception (luteal phase issues) I've never had a BFP. And that's another point I think I will wait at least 24 hrs after my OPK don't want it to stop ovulation. Thanks x

I'd probably wait more like three days after a positive OPK.

Supplementing will have an impact on your progesterone levels pretty quickly, so if you take it from a couple of days after ovulation and then stop once you get to about 12 DPO if you're getting a negative on a FRER, it should have the desired effect.

Thanks @peperethecat