SCOUT· 66%30m·2026-10-15·Health Fitness110 – Can't tolerate progesterone? It may be progestogens
Biochemist Dr Phyllis Bronson on why women who can't tolerate progesterone may actually be reacting to progestogens/progestins (the synthetic type of progesterone) Phyllis has spent decades researching progesterone and mood, and her doctoral work looked at the molecular differences between body identical progesterone…
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“I don't understand how people can say progesterone intolerance isn't really a thing. I've only used micronized progesterone since I started HRT. I couldn't tolerate it at all orally because it made me severely depressed. I now take it vagin…”
“Anyone else found that they’ve developed insatiable appetite since starting Utrogestan ??”
“So progesteron cream is better then oral ?”
“I've had quite the paradoxical reaction to Prometrium. Starting with oral dosing and then slightly less with vaginal suppository. Palpitations, wired but tired, GERD, anxiety, BP dysregulation etc. Even to the extreme as taking a rectal sup…”
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