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[lindseywalsh]

Hi,

I am currently with Newson Health. I love the oestrogel, but have been using the utrogestan very infrequently over the last two years, as it has led to severe and sudden depression

Just after Xmas I decided i should bite the bullet and agreed with the doc that I should reduce oestrogel (my level was around 675pnmol ie at the high end of normal) and start using utrogestan on a continuous cycle.

I think ended up taking too much progesterone alongside reduced oestrogel as well as starting testosterone, and shortly after a particularly heavy bleed i completely crashed - severe depression, felt like I had the worst flu, extreme dizziness, tinnitus, fatigue. Completely incapacitated. I immediately stopped the progesterone and upped the oestrogel back to 4 pumps per day. I have had an ultrasound to check endometrium lining. All is 100% fine.

I am still not feeling great. Symptoms have improved, so i am functional again, but still dizzy for most of the day, fatigued , tinnitus. I had my oestrogen levels checked and they are down to 275, so below what the clinic like us to be at (ideally at least 350pnmol). The Newson doc thinks I am a 4 pump per day lady who needs oestrogen levels in the 600's t function at my best.

Our plan is to continue with oestrogel unopposed for another 6 weeks and get my  levels right up again. At that point try cyclogest instead of utrogestan.

I am nervous about reintroducing progesterone, and wondered if anyone on this forum has had success with cyclogest vs utrogestan?

(I am also considering compounded progesterone, so doing my research before taking the plunge again)

[befuddled]

Hi Lindsey, sorry nothing useful to say, except have you put it into the search box?  There's quite a few post come up, maybe of some help to you.

[KBallinger]

Hi befuddled

I have tried cyclogest. These are used vaginally or anally you do not swallow them. Not sure how you was using utrogestan.
They are also 200mg so stronger than the utrogestan. However as they are hard and waxy you can cut them unlike the utrogestan.  I cut them in four so as to have 50mg a day.  But you could cut in half and do 100mg a day.  They were no worse than utrogestan but I’m severely progesterone intolerant so didn’t work for me on a continuous basis and I find sequential awful as coming off progesterone drove me nuts as well!  Not very helpful . Sorry. X

[lindseywalsh]

Hi K Ballinger,

very useful. Thankyou. The 50mg might be an option to try ......

What do you do now for your progesterone?

[KBallinger]

I don’t need progesterone now. Had a hysterectomy. X

[lindseywalsh]

Kballinger.

ah .... ok.
And how have you been since?

I figure it is on the horizon for me, but concerned that it will just add one more health problem 🤷🏻‍♀️