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Thanks Isabelle. I hadn't thought of it that way. That really does put a silver lining on it. I remember being desperate to feel any sort of symptoms from my previous herbal program, but changing doses never seemed to affect me differently, so I felt like I had nothing to go on.

Then again, this symptom will be a useful indicator only if I'm fairly sure what it means. What confuses me is that menopausal women sometimes get sleepy from PC, even though they take it for low progesterone. I'm sure the exact hormone imbalance during menopause varies from woman to woman. What I'd really like to know is if this ever happens to menopausal women who are estrogen dominant, but have relatively healthy overall estrogen levels (not too high or low except in relation to other hormones), and who also have low progesterone.

BTW, I've been wondering whether there's a record of Ginie's PC program outside of her main PM program thread on this board. In her PM program she mentions growing on only PC for a few months, but doesn't get into as much detail as I would like. Does anyone know if there's a better record of her previous experiences somewhere? Maybe it's on the old board or a completely separate board.

There's also one more thing I've been wondering about. Probably the only assertion that I've made on this thread that I'm absolutely sure of is that very, very few women grow when they use PC unopposed. I wonder what it says about Ginie's hormone levels that she was able to grow on PC alone, assuming it really was growth. I also can't keep ignoring the fact that, before starting her PM program, Ginie had some sort of hormonal symptoms bad enough for her to do BBT for months and bring it in to her gynecologist in the hopes of getting some kind of hormone treatment. She doesn't get into the details about what led her to do that, but I do know she started BBT charting long before starting her PM program. She did say that, when she finally convinced her doctor to test her hormone levels, the results said she only had slightly low levels of both estrogen and progesterone. It might be significant that she had already been treating herself with PC for months. What should I make of all this