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Old 07-24-2015, 08:12 AM
Marlene Marlene is offline
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I cannot use the oral progesterone either. My doc switched me to the topical and it works. I had to start at a low dose and work up though. At first I got one from the compounding pharmacy but found OTC worked just as well. Even my doc is OK with the OTC. The creams do contain USP progesterone (pharmaceutical grade).

The oral caused joint pain in my feet and legs. When I switched to the cream, I had to lower my dose because it gave me indigestion at first. To this day, I can only tolerate 20 mg/d versus the standard 40 mg/d that they usually prescribe. I started at 2.5 mg/d and worked up to 30 MG/D and then had to back down to 20 mg/d based on blood test which showed too much progesterone.

If I could just used the estrodiol, I would be happy. I seem to feel the best with just that. But you need the progesterone so I had to figure out a way to make it work.

You can change it out on your own since you don't need a prescript for the progesterone.

Last edited by Marlene; 07-24-2015 at 02:53 PM. Reason: Fix dosage
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