Benefits Of Progesterone Cream

For plenty of women, periods are pretty regular. However, if there are underlying women’s health issues, you may experience irregular periods or no periods at all. Not knowing when, or if, your period shows up can be very stressful, let alone unhealthy as tissue gets backed up.

There are several reasons why you can have irregular periods, including:

• Chronic stress
• Estrogen issues
• Extreme exercise or dieting
• Eating disorders
• Thyroid disorders
• Medicine reactions
• PCOS
• Diabetes

While they require different treatment options, a common factor could be low progesterone. Since progesterone is an essential building block of hormones, like testosterone, estrogen, and cortisol, it plays a crucial role in balancing hormones, a women’s reproductive system, and the menstrual cycle. Progesterone helps trigger the uterine endometrial lining that helps nourish an implanted egg, increasing the chance of the fertilized egg actually lasting and growing, and reducing the risk of early miscarriage. If there’s no fertilized egg, progesterone causes the lining to break down and your period to start. When you suffer from low progesterone, irregularity in your cycles can occur. 

Low progesterone can cause mood changes, loss of libido, infertility, headaches, and sleep problems. One of the reasons you could be progesterone deficient is a result of having too much estrogen.  Every cycle that goes by without ovulation increases estrogen dominance as the progesterone stores are depleted, which then makes the next cycle worse because of the estrogen dominance, and so on. Symptoms of estrogen dominance can include:

• Anxiety
• Breast cancer
• Breast tenderness
• Cramps
• Decreased sex drive
• Depression
• Dry eyes
• Endometriosis
• Facial hair
• Fat gain/obesity
• Fatigue
• Foggy thinking/memory lapses
• Hair loss/baldness
• Headaches
• Hot flashes
• Increased blood clotting
• Infertility issues
• Irregular periods
• Insomnia
• No period
• Not ovulating
• Miscarriages
• PCOS
• PMS
• Sluggish metabolism
• Thyroid issues

An excellent way to increase your progesterone levels is through progesterone cream. Transdermal application (through the skin) is one of the best ways to absorb natural progesterone since it dissolves slowly into the blood. It is best to use 40 mg a day, divided into 20 mg in the morning and evening, mimicking the body’s natural progesterone cycle.

The best places to apply the progesterone cream is on your face, neck, upper chest, breasts, inner arms, or the palms of your hands and feet.

There are several ways to use progesterone cream, depending on if you are trying to start having regular periods and balance your hormones, or if you are trying to induce ovulation. 

Regulating Your Period:

If you are trying to regulate your cycles or jumpstart your period after not having one for a while, you’ll want to use the progesterone cream from cycle day 5 to 26, and then stop on day 26 to bring on menstruation. If you don’t have a cycle, choose a random date on your calendar and call that cycle day 1, and begin there. By stopping on day 26, you are forcing your progesterone levels to drop and your period to begin. Using the progesterone cream during the entire month, (except when you’re on your period), suppresses ovulation. This essentially helps your body to rest by stopping the cycle of your eggs not being released and the estrogen dominance increasing. Do this for 3-4 months to reset and regulate and balance everything. Then, once your cycle is regulated, and your body has had time to rest, stop using the progesterone cream for a month or two. If you have any follicles left, they seem to respond pretty well with enthusiasm to being suppressed for a few months, and at that point, you have a higher likelihood of the egg actually maturing and releasing.

Inducing Ovulation:

Once your body and cycle are regulated, you can then work on inducing ovulation. To do that, begin using the progesterone cream on day 14 of your cycle, or the day after ovulation. Then continue using the progesterone until your period begins, around day 28. Then, stop using the cream until you ovulate again, and continue using it until your period starts up. 

Keep using the progesterone cream when you get pregnant, so you can help your body produce enough progesterone to have a higher chance of maintaining the pregnancy and lower the risk of miscarriage. 

I’ve known plenty of friends and family that have used the progesterone cream successfully for years, both to regulate their periods, and helped them get pregnant. They swear by it. :)

For me personally, I made the huge mistake of using the progesterone cream when we were first trying to conceive the same way I did as a teenager since that was all I knew, to regulate my period, effectively suppressing ovulation, except I never took any time off. It worked great growing up to regulate and have a normal cycle, but not so much when you are trying to induce ovulation. So, I was essentially not allowing myself to ovulate by using the opposite timing and method than I needed to ovulate.

After a year or so of using it and it not working, I stopped for a while. Recently, however, I’ve started it up again, this time using the method and timing to induce ovulation, and I am hopeful and excited for it to work. Fingers crossed it can bring on ovulation naturally!

So, I highly recommend trying out the progesterone cream and see if it helps you to get a regular period and cycle, and/or induce ovulation. Good luck! :) 

What have YOUR experiences been with progesterone cream so far? :) 

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