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I've been recently using progesterone and also noticed I'm a little more tired... Any relation?
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I am taking progesterone cream that I purchased otc at a health store. it works very wel for me. I am sleeping through the night for the first time in ages. I don't want to discontinue, but it too makes me very tired/lethargic during the day. Is there some supplement I can take to overcome this effect. Is there an herb or vitamin I can take to combat the fatigue of the progesterone?
July 1, 2011 - 6:36amThis Comment
Take DIM + to deal with the fatigue. It helps to clear out the old circulating estrogen.
July 30, 2017 - 10:00pmThis Comment
I am taking progesterone 400mg per day..It is totally draining me! I am So tired. I am taking it because my progesterone levels were very low when I had my initial pregnancy blood work done and 4 miscarriages..This is my 3rd week on the pills and I am drained!
April 15, 2009 - 1:05pmThis Comment
Yes, progesterone can make you sleepy! I have a few friends who are newly pregnant, and one of the hormones that surge in your body when you are pregnant is progesterone...the very hormone that makes your first trimester exhausting, tiring and feeling fatigued and energy-drained.
What is the dosage of your progesterone?
March 10, 2009 - 1:54pmThis Comment
Hi, Anon, can I ask you just a couple more questions?
If you are using a cream, is it an over-the-counter natural progesterone cream, or one prescribed by your doctor and made at a compounding pharmacy?
Have you noticed other side effects? Affecting mood, or appetite, or weight?
Have you had your hormone levels tested?
Let us know and we'll see what more we can find out for you. In the meantime, here is the Drugs.com page on progesterone and its possible side effects:
http://www.drugs.com/sfx/progesterone-side-effects.html
March 10, 2009 - 8:32amThis Comment
Oh yes, progesterone can make you tired and lethargic. How much are you taking and how often are you taking it? Is it oral and or vaginal?
Any other side effects?
I'm not a doctor, but we have a lot of women taking progesterone and talking about it on the site. I can send you a book that may help if you'd like. It' free of charge and it's a great book that has been very helpful to so many women. If you post to my section on the site and give me your address, we will send it to you. I think you'll enjoy it.
Best in health,
Michelle
March 9, 2009 - 2:39pmThis Comment
Hi Michelle,
I would really appreciate the book as well, just start bio identical both estrogen and progesterone and am worthless in the mornings so exhausted, any ideas would help, 100mg cream form taken at night
Theresa Tuggle
February 10, 2019 - 10:25pm425 4th St NE Unit A5
Puyallup, WA 98372
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Michelle,
It was so good to read whay you are experiencing.
PLEASE send me a book so I can educate myself. I am struggling.
MELISSA LEBLANC
May 8, 2018 - 12:22am200 SUPERCHARGE DRIVE
THIBODAUX, LA 70301
Thank you so very much
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hi can you send me the book, I am taking progesterone 400MG twice a day which means I am taking 800MG a day of progesterone which drained me so much!
my address is
block 2 lot 8 joy St. Saint Catherine Subdivision Sucat, Paranaque Philippines, 1107
August 28, 2017 - 2:35pmThis Comment
Hi My Dr just started me on bio identical biest ,prog and testosterone cream in addition progesterone capsule 20 mg which I take at night. I'm still so sleepy and fatigued all day . Will this go away ? Do I have to take it every day ?
October 26, 2016 - 9:18amThis Comment