Utrogestan!

[Snowdrop]

Has anyone heard of Utrogestan? My doctor recommended it for my low progesterone. Her thoughts on Progest-e were that it wasn't strong enough for me. I tried Progest-e for 6 months, dosing 4-5 big drops 5 times per day, my serum levels came up to 15 nmol/L from 1 nmol/L.

Ray Peat (via email) It's good to have progesterone about 100 times higher than estrogen.

If anyone has given it a go I would love to hear your results.

Thank you!!!

 

[Snowdrop]

I guess no one has trialled Utrogestan here

I am ordering it now and will share my results after a month of using it.

 

[dookie]

Has anyone heard of Utrogestan? My doctor recommended it for my low progesterone. Her thoughts on Progest-e were that it wasn't strong enough for me. I tried Progest-e for 6 months, dosing 4-5 big drops 5 times per day, my serum levels came up to 15 nmol/L from 1 nmol/L.

Ray Peat (via email) It's good to have progesterone about 100 times higher than estrogen.

If anyone has given it a go I would love to hear your results.

Thank you!!!

I have tried it, ordered the 100 mg liquid capsules from an online pharmacy. It feels just like Progest-E, but maybe very slightly weaker. It comes in some form of vegetable oil, but the amount is so small in a capsule that it probably doesn't matter

Though that I get estrogenic effects from all forms of progesterone I have tried, so I may not be the best to advise on which brand is best

 

[Snowdrop]

Thanks for your reply dookie, much appreciated.

What were your estrogenic symptoms when taking progesterone???

Also, how could you tell that the progest-e was a little stronger?

Thank you!

 

[dookie]

Thanks for your reply dookie, much appreciated.

What were your estrogenic symptoms when taking progesterone???

Also, how could you tell that the progest-e was a little stronger?

Thank you!

Water retention, swelling, bloating, enlargement of breasts, ****, thighs, lips, enlarged stomach, depression and anxiety, moles getting darker on my arms, femininity feel, etc. Also some anti-testosterone effects, like shrinking of penis and testicles. This happens from a single dose, even of a few mg's.

Progest-E seems a bit stronger compared to Utrogestan mainly because I think the "1 drop = 3 mg" is hard to measure with Progest-E, because drop sizes vary a lot, sometimes a big drop comes out (the concentration is rather thick), so may be getting higher doses. I just remember that a single drop of Progest-E caused same effects/side-effects I would experience from 1 capsule of utrogestan (100 mg)

 

[Snowdrop]

That is quite a symptom list

I was wondering if perhaps the Progest-e felt a little stronger to you due to the vitamin E base, allowing more efficient uptake of the progesterone???

I will trial the Utrogestan in a vitamin E base and report back.

 

[DaveFoster]

I don't know why so many guys respond so badly to progesterone.

I take tons and I haven't had any proble... wait where's my penis?

 

[dookie]

I don't know why so many guys respond so badly to progesterone.

I take tons and I haven't had any proble... wait where's my penis?

If penile shrinking were the only side-effect of progesterone, I would keep using it

 

[tomisonbottom]

That is quite a symptom list

I was wondering if perhaps the Progest-e felt a little stronger to you due to the vitamin E base, allowing more efficient uptake of the progesterone???

I will trial the Utrogestan in a vitamin E base and report back.

How did it go?

 

[Snowdrop]

How did it go?

Hello tomisonbottom, I actually received a post from dookie on the same day as I was preparing to purchase the Utrogestan. Here is the link to the thread...

Progesterone 100 Times Higher Than Estrogen

Due to my preference for a thinner consistency, I now use Simply Progesterone from Health Natura, which gives the same result as progest-e, this was determined through blood testing.

 

[shepherdgirl]

Doesn't progesterone help to pull estrogen out of the tissues and into the blood? So estrogenic symptoms could mean the progesterone is "working"?