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Natural Progesterone Cream - Info & Advice

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Tillyboo · 18/03/2014 23:10

Can anyone help me decide whether this is an option please ?
I don't know much about it ....
All this hormone & HRT stuff is so confusing & subjective

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summertimeandthelivingiseasy · 19/03/2014 11:39

www.menopausematters.co.uk/otherpreps.php

This site has the current up to date thinking on progesterone cream, and other alternative medicines, ie whether they have been proven to do anything (or worse, have detrimental side effects).

If you look around the menu on the left, it has quite a bit of information on HRT and lifestyle too.

Tillyboo · 19/03/2014 14:02

Thank you !!

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summertimeandthelivingiseasy · 19/03/2014 16:53

www.menopausematters.co.uk/otherpreps.php

sorry - forgot to convert the link!

marlena1211 · 02/05/2014 12:56

this link contains at least one mistake; this doctor does not seem to be too interested in alternative medecine and her summary is a bit slapdash.
I wouldn't rely too much on what she says based on this page for alternatives.

she lists as the same plant evening primrose and starflower = borage.

they are not at all the same, not even from the same family, do not have the same properties.

borage=starflower is a blue flower while evening primrose is a yellow flower for a start.

borage oil contain omegas 6 and omegas 3 (the ones we all lack) while evening primrose oil contain mostly (if not only) omegas 6 which most people do not need and which need to be balanced in the diet with omegas 3

from a long standing thread i have been reading involving several dozen women from their reckoning evening primrose oil capsules in high dosage shorten long cycles when starflower oil apparently does not.

i took starflower capsules 1gram/day + vitE for a while and it had a noticeable improvement on joint and pain muscle.it also gives a feeling of well being.
I'm not sure of the vitE part in this and do not know long term action on hormones.

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also she contrasts "herbal" and "traditional" medecine.
But herbal medecine is traditional medecine!

What she calls "traditional" is actually "conventional" or allopatic medecine, the one from the NHS that prescribes us tablets.

regardless what type, medecine is a science and if you are practicing it you better be precise and use the right words.

PoshPenny · 10/05/2014 18:03

I bought some from amazon and I believe it helped enormously with my dreadful PMS and other symptoms.

bibijay · 20/09/2014 19:21

I used it for 5 years, I am stopping it because I don't believe it works better than a placebo. If you search online, almost all the available info on natural progesterone cream is from sellers telling you it will get rid of hot flushes, anxiety, sleeplessness etc, and make your hair and skin nice etc.
I personally think you would be better off spending your money on a monthly massage or a meditation course. Or a nice frippery for yourself.
This article helped me decide to ditch the progest "habit":
www.mja.com.au/journal/2005/182/5/transdermal-progesterone-creams-postmenopausal-women-more-hype-hope

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