[EllaC]

Hey everyone, just wondering what your take is on progesterone cream?

I don't have a lot of time at the moment for a discussion, so I'll give you a quick run down of my situation and then check back after work today.

I've started an NBE routine focused on balancing hormones rather than adding estrogen, and I just received my order of natural progesterone cream from Amazon. This morning while googling to double check dosages, I came across some pretty disturbing info about how prog. builds up in your fat cells and causes long term problems. Now I'm wondering if it's worth the risk and whether I should see if I can return it.

I have been using milk thistle orally and that has had some effect on me already (sore nipples and fuller feeling breasts even though they don't yet look rounder) and I just received my Maca root powder that I am going to add to my program as well.

What are your experiences with natural prog. cream and in your opinion would I be better off sticking to the milk thistle and Maca and foregoing the prog. cream altogether to avoid the risks?

Thanks so much, I appreciate any help and opinions

P.S. I am also taking a few other supplements: Zinc, Folic acid, and using wild yam and red clover extract topically with massage twice a day.

Everybody is different.
My personal experience with pc cream , proper bioidentical stuff too.
Shortness of breath at night (not constant but enough to be scary), not difference in boobs whatsoever, one of the heaviest bleeding days on my next cycle ive ever had. Wont touch it again. Also read it can build up and take many months to clear out of system.

Low dose vitex much more balancing for me.

Milk thistle is apparently estrogenic in nature I have read. But its the one top herb they all say helps the liver do its thing so Id "suspect" taking it can do no harm, my experience with milk thistle is only liver cleansing and no hormonal influence I was aware of but if the liver detoxs excess estrogen even if it is a potential source of one id still go for milk thistle.

Be very wary of synthetic isolated folic acid supplements, google and you will see why. Id go for folate in a wholefood source multi.

Maca can be strong for some too, but I think less so than pc as with vitex . These are my opinions only, I'm sure others can guide you to their experiences.

The first step I was told every time I went into a vitamin shop and said I wanted to balance my hormones was, they suggested vitamins that support the hormone system, like b vitamens and fatty acids etc. Next they'd said is the likes of vitex, but that depends on symptons etc.
Good luck.