I have a question if someone can explain me if : I think I have adrenal fatique cause of my symptoms,so I didn’t understand from the posts about progesterone if adding with a progesterone cream can help adrenals to recover or not…
please reply cause i want to buy it
Progesterone is given as a medical treatment (depo provera) to sexual offenders to chemically castrate them. Men are not supposed to have elevated progesterone levels, women are.
You are self-diagnosing with no medical tests and “adrenal fatigue” is not considered a legitimate condition by most qualified professionals in the medical community.
Do some research on elevated progesterone in men, or progesterone treatment in men… you’ll probably find it has a lot of negative effects, especially sexually.
I dn’t need to search cause I ve it in my blood,it’s high from my bloodtest,that’ s why i was considering to use a prog cream…so maybe it will low down…am I right?
Talk to a doctor.
What if your progesterone is LOW for a man? My progesterone is 0.3 NG/ML and the normal range for this in men is 0.3 - 3.2 NG/ML.
Don’t we use progesterone to create testosterone?
My doctor recommended we use progesterone. I voiced my concern to her about using progesterone which is a 5 ar inhibitor (blocking DHT just like Propecia). Her response for me was that we are “restoring balance in my hormonal levels.” She says there are no “good or bad hormones, just appropriate levels. We will closely be monitoring your hormones and symptoms with YOUR response to any given treatment.”
The reason I ask is because your response to Italysideffect seems very categorical. I can understand that completely in his case, as his progesterone is by his own admission high and he is going to increase it further, which seems to be a huge mistake in self medication.
However, the understanding my doctor is trying to instill in me, I think, is that all hormones when too low are bad for you, and all hormones when too high are bad for you.
What are your thoughts?
I’d say that’s a reasonable thought. Your doc is obviously more qualified than any of us when it comes to this type of thing so you may want to give it a shot and see what happens.
i would make more researches b4 start it…i dn’t want to say u dn’t have to,but even docs can be wrong
Yeah. If doctors weren’t wrong, none of us would be here. Hehe. I am concerned about this course of action, and will be shortcircuiting it promptly if she can’t give me some satisfactory reasoning behind HOW this is actually going to help my situation.
Does anybody know if it is more common for us ex-propecia users to have high progesterone or low?
doing some researches i found that progesterone is very good for neuro degeneration and it doesn t block testo at small doses,it happens just at high doses…so i m using pregnenolone at 100mg per day and i m feeling very good .
i will stay on it more time doing like someone did on here recovering by progesterone 5mg cream .
Yeah, Progesterone was not the proper course of action. I quit it a few weeks in after I realized the only reason it was raising my T was most likely because it was blocking my DHT. As soon as I quit, my T plummetted. This means it’s T raising effects were prob temporary.
so after stopping progesterone you feel shit like before?
how much progesterone did u use?
thanks
Gcac,
As i see, there are only two courses of action that may benefit us. One is a dopamine booster like Xyrem or wellbutrin, to see if higher dopamine will restart our metabolisms and restore T levels. Second course is TRT… How low is your Testosterone?
hey gcac,reflecting about progesterone blocking dht and than boosting testo,i don t think it is the way it works because if it was for this principle trt should help people in our post propecia sides and it does not …i was on trt with no results,so why should t boosted by progesterone be effective on us???
i think that progesterone helps in a different way ,still don t know wich one .
Progesterone definitely raised my T. It is impossible for me to say why it did this, but my suspicion is that it happened because there is some sort of signaling error, where my body expects a very low amount of DHT. If I block conversion from T to DHT, then my T skyrockets because my body is sensing that DHT has gone down and so produces more T to counteract. My body has the ability to produce T, but for some reason doesn’t think it should.
However, once I quit blocking conversion to DHT and my body senses its presence once again, my T plummetts. I do not view progesterone as any type of solution, which is why I personally chose to discontinue. This is just my line of thinking, and I know there are others on here that share it, however I am by no means claiming it is an absolute truth. I think it’s pretty well documented that our T levels rise considerably while we are on fin, because of this same signaling error. (Our body sees DHT disappear and raises T to counteract)
I also don’t feel qualified to categorize our only alternative solutions as Xyrem or Wellbutrin, nor do they seem like the most promising leads (to me anyway). I took Wellbutrin one day and felt very, very strange, I also didn’t feel it addressed the underlying issues, and I don’t even know enough about GHB (Xyrem) to have an opinion, although there are several threads on here that discuss this. Here is one:
propeciahelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1286
Gcac,
Your T goes up when conversion is blocked, because this Testosterone is not being converted in DHT. It is no signaling problem, it might not even be an increase in T production, just the conversion is blocked so more T is available. When you quit progesterone, you start converting part of T into DHT again and then it looks like T has plummeted. The way i feel it is just moving things around, no real gain, you know what i mean?
italy,
What kind of Testosterone Replacement did you do? There is a lot of men who do not respond to TRT androgel, but when they switch to injections + arimidex + HCG the response is different, and it works. Reseach hypogonadism forums, like this one on yahoogroups, ‘hypogonadism2’.
i used testim gel …i don t remember the dose …