PROGESTERONE CREAM SIDE EFFECTS

Progesterone Cream Side Effects

by Eckhart, MD

Favorable Side Effects

Progesterone Cream has favorable side effects.

Healthy body weight on hips and belly

Healthy full hair

Uneventful happy normal periods and cycles

Healthy happy painless breasts

Healthy happy ovaries

Healthy happy moods

Healthy smooth uterus

Healthy sex drive

Healthy Prostate

Healthy Cervix

Healthy transitions in life

Healthy head

Adverse Side Effects

Progesterone can have TEMPORARY adverse side effects. These TEMPORARY adverse side effects can be avoided by avoiding xenoestrogens in your environment. If women do NOT avoid xenoestrogens in their environment, THEN 30-40% of women taking progesterone in the form of progesterone cream, progesterone pills (Prometrium), progesterone oil, or progesterone suppositories will have adverse side effects. You can avoid progesterone bad side effects by avoiding xenoestrogens.Get a list of these xenoestrogens Here! www.womhoo.com

Temporary increased body weight on hips and belly

Temporary increased thinning hair.

Temporary increased menstrual cramping

Temporary increased in painful breasts

Temporary increased painful ovaries

Temporary increased mood swings

Temporary increased hot flashes

Temporary increased fibroid size on the uterus

Temporary increased headache

Temporary increased bloating

Temporary decreased sex drive

Again these temporary side effects are due to NOT avoiding xenoestrogens. Anything put on the skin has 10 times the potency of an oral dose. For instance, an oral dose of progesterone is 200 mg/day. However, the equivalent skin dose of progesterone is 20 mg/day. So you must be extremely careful of anything that is put on the skin. This includes laundry detergent, soap, shampoo and cosmetics. Even so called "healthy" products from the health food store can have estrogenic herbs in them. Lavender and tea tree are two examples of commonly used herbs that pretend to be estrogen. Lavender and teas tree oil have made many of our patients worse. They had increased bloating and increased breast tenderness. They thought they were buying "healthy" products. Many herbs used in healthy products also have herbs that are used to create an abortion. Pomegranate and oil of tansy are examples of two herbs that are used to cause abortions traditionally.

Normal Progesterone Side Effects

Progesterone causes sleepiness. Some patients take progesterone just because it gives them a good sleep. The oral progesterone pills and progesterone suppositories (rectal and vaginal) may have more of a sedative effect than the progesterone cream. This is because oral progesterone is prefiltered by the liver 90%. The 90% that is prefiltered and metabolized into a metabolite that causes sleepiness. Vaginal and rectal progesterone suppositories are directly drained by the portal vein in the body and go directly to the liver to be metabolized and broken down by the body.

In contrast, progesterone cream is absorbed directly into the skin and bypasses the liver. Not as many "sleepiness" metabolites are created. Thus, there is less of a sedative effect with progesterone cream.

Rare Severe Adverse Effects

One pharmacist anecdotally reported that a few patients taking high levels of progesterone cream 200 mg/day or more for long periods had mental confusion. The mental confusion stopped after several months of stopping progesterone. It is likely that the progesterone cream was absorbed into the body fat, and slowly diffused out of the body fat.

I personally have never seen mental confusion in patients taking 20-60 mg/day of progesterone cream.

Interactions

Progesterone and Ovulation

Progesterone taken before ovulation will fool the body into thinking it is pregnant and stop the ovary from ovulating. Thus, progesterone taken before ovulation may temporarily impair conception for that cycle only. The use of progesterone for birth control is NOT recommended. However, progesterone taken after ovulation will deveolop a nice nest on the inner lining of the uterus and enhance embryo implantation and increase conception for some women.

Progesterone and Birth Control Pills

Both progesterone and brand name prescription Progestins compete to bind to the SAME progesterone receptor. So, taking birth control pills that contain a brand name presription Progestin will BLOCK progesterone. Taking birth control pills will block progesterone.

Progesterone and Thyroid

Estrogen dominance (too much estrogen) caused by xenoestrogens (chemical estrogens) decrease thyroid activity. Almost all patients that have estrogen dominance diseases appear to be hypothyroid (low thyroid). However, the thyroid hormone when measured is usually normal or low normal. This means that estrogen dominant women are less sensitive to thyroid hormone. If their physician is astute, their physician will give them thyroid hormone.

As xenoestrogens are cut out and progesterone is taken the thyroid sensitivity will increase its sensitivity back to normal. Less thyroid is needed. So, the patient should work with her doctor to slowly decrease thyroid hormone supplements.

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Testimonials

Real Progestelle Testimonial from a Real Patient
Chanda W.
January, 24, 2011
Harpers ferry, West Virginia

Baby Girl!

Dear Dr. Eckhart,

You helped me just over a year a nine months ago with my trying to conceive. Our daughter, N., just turned one. My difficulty was not getting pregnant, but keeping the pregnancy. I took Progestelle, and that ensured my pregnancy. Our daughter is very healthy, happy, and bright. My husband and I are trying to conceive again. I was 42 when I conceived N., and now am 43 going on 44.

Thank you kindly,

Helen V., Boulder, CO, Aug 18, 2006

My fibroids are so small that.... the doctor couldn't find them.

Progestelle has really changed the quality of my life and has most certainly prevented me from having serious health problems down the road.

I have always had very painful periods. I experienced heavy bleeding, excruiating cramps before, during and after my period. After I turned 40, I began having other symptoms that my doctor couldn't explain. I know now that it was all attributable to estrogen dominance. My hair began to thin, my thyroid was swollen but my numbers were in a normal range, my cholesterol was significantly elevated. My ObGyn told me I had fibroids and yuckiness in my endometrial wall. I then started finding lumps in my breasts which were cysts in my breast.

After educating myself about what it meant to be estrogen dominant, I began using Progestelle to balance my hormones. I had only used it a month when I noticed my hair began to grow back. The first period after using the product, I was amazed that I didn't have to take Aleve for cramping. Actually, it has been a year now and I no longer have to take pain killers to get through the month. My fibroids are so small that, at my last obgyn appt., the doctor couldn't find them. My thyroid is no longer swollen and, at a recent check-up, my cholesterol is at a normal level. I no longer have breast tenderness and the lumps are gone or so small I can't feel them anymore. The added bonus is that my libido is back and my husband is happy about that too! Thanks for a wonderful and natural product, Dr. Eckert. Thank you for working to correct the problem instead of trying to treat the symptoms. I am very thankful.

Sincerely,

Andrea R. , Carson City, Nevada Nov. 9, 2006

Endometriosis - The Progestelle has been a life saver for me.

I have endometriosis and have been using Progestelle since March.

The pain has greatly improved since I started using the Progestelle in March. Before I began using it I missed work 3 - 4 days a month because of pain and I ended up in the ER because I had lost nearly half of my blood. Now, my periods are normal and I'm no longer missing work because of pain. I still have some bad days (although I don't even remember when my last one was) but they are few and far between. And, on a bad day the pain isn't bad enough to make me throw up anymore and I can usually take just Aleve and that is enough to make the pain stop.

The Progestelle has been a life saver for me. I used to be afraid to go anywhere or do anything because I was afraid the pain would start (it came on very fast, very bad, and at any time of the month) and I'd end up leaving or throwing up. Fear was taking over my life. Now I do stuff. My husband and I can go on vacation or dinner or out with friends and I don't have to worry anymore. It has quite literally given me my quality of life back.

Thank you,

Cheri T. , Marshfield, Wisconsin, Nov. 6 2006

Ovarian cyst Went Missing!

Hi Dr.Eckhart,

I want to thank you your website has once again saved another person's life !!!

My doctor told me to come back and see her after 3 months and if my ovarian cyst at 7 cm is still there, I would need a surgery. I returned in 2 months time to make sure I was ok.

When I found out I have ovarian cyst few months back, I searched the internet for answers and keep coming back to your website and bought your items. But I didn't use them.

However, I did follow your instructions.

NO coffee.
Take vitamins E 600 iu before you sleep, magnesium, vitamin B6, etc.

and most of all, can you inform the world. DRINK lots of WATER. especially during our menstrual cycle.

I never drink a lot but my mother in law told me to drink LOTS of water and I did....

When I went to have a check up recently, the doctor could NOT find my cyst. It went missing !!!

Thanks to your natural healing to ovarian cyst...and inform the world your natural methods actually works ! I still have your bottle of Progestelle - unused....its a good souvenir for me.....

Best Wishes and THANK YOU !!!

Jovee T., Hong Kong, Oct. 10, 2006