I am going to stop taking the progesterone I was prescribed by my obgyn why you might say it’s because it seems to be making my legs larger overall like more muscle I know that sounds strange and I didn’t read where it would do that but it seems to be doing that and causing weight fluctuations even more than usual and not helping much with night sweats like I thought it would and causing me to bleed too. At first, it made me calm and relaxed when I first started taking it now not so much, I don’t want to gain muscle since my legs are already muscular somewhat from going to the gym.
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I was using progesterone cream a few years ago and it made me bleed also. I also got really moody on it and cried all the time. Not the effect it is supposed to have!
Ask your Dr if it can be combined with estrogen. That might help with the progesterone side effects.
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will do but also afraid of taking estrogen with it because that has a higher risk of getting blood clots heart disease and having a stroke then taking progesterone by itself which is a lower risk. That’s what my obgyn told me. Anyhow I will tell her when I see her in May the reasons I stopped taking progesterone tonight I wont take it and see if the bleeding stops eventually still having bleeding and it’s been like 10 days or so. And I don’t notice any or little improvement in night sweats or water retention is why I was prescribed progesterone in the first place it’s not making much difference in that either.
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Yeah, I get what you’re saying about blood clots and heart disease risk.
Perimenopause stinks! 
At the moment I am riding through my symptoms without hormones. They aren’t horrible - just annoying.
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that’s what I am thinking about doing not taking anything for hormone replacement and just riding it out the side effects are worse than the actual treatment and I don’t see it helping me.
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The patch and the cream have much lower risk of blood clots than pills
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Apparently there are herbal supplements called Health and Her for perimenopause and menopause which are very good
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thanks, will look into herbal supplements for perimenopause symptoms I don’t want to chance getting a stroke or heart disease or blood clots by taking HRT. My Mom couldn’t take them either because she had a blood clot in the past, I haven’t had any but don’t want to take that risk of going on estrogen along with progesterone that’s when the risk is higher and I don’t want to do the patch or gel either I’m going to look at herbal supplements possibly instead as long as their safe to take with my psych meds.
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You can’t go far wrong with herbs and vitamins. I hear HRT also places you at a higher risk of breast cancer…
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Don’t herbal supplements interact with psych meds? I take Abilify10mg and Lexapro20mg I will consider herbal supplements only if they are safe to take and don’t put me at risk of death or heart problems, I had that happen before taking an Herbal diet pill called garcinia Cambodia Got heart palpitations even though I lost like 15 pounds with it not worth the risk if it does that if you know what I mean?
me too that’s what I Am scared of as well as the other risks of blood clots and cancer and stroke.
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I actually don’t know what to do I thought I was going to stop the progesterone but now I don’t know what to do if I should actually stop it or not since it’s too soon to tell if its helping me or not maybe I should rethink this and start taking it a little longer and see if it actually helps in the long run and not make a decision just yet to stop it I see my obgyn in May to see how its working for me maybe I should give it at least till then till I see her again. It did really calm me down at night and help with anxiety I have as well I don’t really know if it’s helping with weight fluctuations, aka water retention my obgyn said it would help reduce water weight. I think it does later on into treatment. I will start it back tonight after missing one dose and stay on it also hoping the bleeding or withdrawal bleed will go away on its own too soon will see I will update how it goes.
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