https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:37:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1/page/2#post-1697991 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:02:53 +0000 littlek 1697991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LulaBee: This is old, so I'm sure you have your answer. But mine can be taken orally or vaginally. I plan on doing vaginal since they look like horse pills and there is no way I can swallow that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1491455 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:26:19 +0000 MaryM 1491455@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The oral form that I've taken my doctor said can also be taken as suppositories, so you might be in luck (but I'd wait to hear from your MW first)</p> <p>I did feel a little off in the head when I took them the first time (to induce periods), but nothing too major. </p> <p>When I took them when I was pregnant, the doctor told me to take it at night and I slept through any horrible side effects. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1491395 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:08:15 +0000 Happygal 1491395@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LulaBee: I hope those crackers help! Sorry you had such a rocky start to your morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490784 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:42:15 +0000 LulaBee 1490784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe I'm just really sensitive. I had a decent breakfast and have been eating crackers for about an hour... it's starting to get a bit better- been a little over 2 hours. Still waiting on MW to call me back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490768 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:39:10 +0000 fancyfunction 1490768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took the oral form for the first 8 weeks of<br /> my pregnancy - I didn't have any side effects. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490684 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:15:32 +0000 spaniellove 1490684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LulaBee: I didn't take the oral form for very long because I'm allergic to it but the nurse recommended eating a protein bar with it because of those side effects. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490661 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:58:28 +0000 LulaBee 1490661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish I hadn't just spent $180 on my oral form... Thanks, ladies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490631 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:26:17 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1490631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LulaBee: I would call because there are other forms of progesterone you can take and maybe there is a better option for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490629 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:22:05 +0000 Happygal 1490629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Edited! Just reread and see you're taking it orally, very different. Sorry. Still hope your midwife can see you soon. Maybe a suppository is a better solution for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1490621 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:14:58 +0000 LulaBee 1490621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did anyone have extreme dizziness taking this? I just started this morning (supposed to take pill twice a day) and I feel DRUNK. Like, I'm at work and I have no idea how to get anything done. Stumbling around... midwife office not open for another hour and I'm not sure what to do. It's to try and make my pregnancy stick, so I want that to happen but there is no way I can go on this way. Hoping someone can say it wears off fairly quickly... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1236555 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:05:05 +0000 Sprite 1236555@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.Someone: Good question, but I actually can not figure out what type I have! They're from a compounding pharmacy, so I think they were made in-house? The label doesn't specify anything other than "Progest Supp", but they are in little silver blister packs and appear to be bullet shaped (I don't want to open one because I won't start them until next Tues or Wed).</p> <p>I think you are right, an ice pack should do the trick, especially if I put it in my checked bag since cargo areas are usually cold. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1236434 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:34:16 +0000 Mrs.Someone 1236434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sprite: Which type do you have? I have the football shaped yellow waxy ones and haven't been told anything about refrigeration. Maybe call your pharmacist? I think it would be OK to wrap a ice pack around it, then surround that in clothes. Unless you're going somewhere really warm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1236106 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:04:13 +0000 Sprite 1236106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um, traveling with these progesterone supplements??</p> <p>I just went and picked up my prescription and until now I somehow missed the fact that these things need to be refrigerated! I have a 6 hour flight early tomorrow morning, and while we will have a fridge in our hotel room, we won't be checking in until later in the day. Will the progesterone be alright in a small cooler with ice packs or something (I think you can fly with ice packs?)? And put it in the fridge as soon as we check in, a few hours before I need to use it? The pharmacist did say that the refrigeration isn't for the sake of the medicine effectiveness, so I assume it's only just to help it not melt right away? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1235457 Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:03:14 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1235457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's early but I'll throw in my limite experience so far!</p> <p>My progesterone is shaped like a tiny bullet &amp; they're kept in the fridge. I inserted it last night just before bed and made sure to wear a pad.</p> <p>It went in easy, mess free, and I never felt like it was falling out. I never leaked, either, but we will see. I did feel sleepy but we had a long night (c has the stomach flu) and this morning it was kind of waxy when I went to the bathroom. So, there's that..</p> <p>This morning I'm feeling a bit queasy but I can't tell if its from the progesterone or if I'm catching Chloe's bug. I also have a slight headache, but that can also be explained by lack of sleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1234213 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:39:02 +0000 spaniellove 1234213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Also about that Endometrin leakage - you might remember my whining a few weeks ago about what it was doing to me and how I had to stop using it. Use an absorbent liner (Always) and change it often! I was trying to be all eco-friendly and using a cotton liner and ended up with a raging UTI from the dampness sitting against my skin. Plus after a few weeks the Endometrin was eating away at every surface and I was bleeding from everywhere. I really thought I might be starting to m/c because of the bleeding when it was 100% from the suppositories! So be very very gentle with your skin and don't be afraid to talk to your RE if you ever feel like it's too much for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1234157 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:21:20 +0000 Happygal 1234157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ummm..... My progesterone also dries things out down there. So not sexy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233987 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:18:12 +0000 LindsayInNY 1233987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: I've never seen the word "cavernous" used so much! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233950 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:07:27 +0000 twodoghouse 1233950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: I'm glad that was helpful! It's hard for me to tell about the symptoms because I was doing progesterone at the tail end of an IVF cycle. So I was SUPER bloated, but I don't know if that was the IVF meds or the progesterone. I was also having bad headaches and sore boobs. That could have been the hormones or the progesterone or the actually being pregnant? I would say to be on the safe side, while you're on progesterone assume that all symptoms you have are progsterone-related. </p> <p>@Shutterbug: :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233924 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:59:11 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1233924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My doctor prescribes Endometrin and it was easy for me to install. I had to insert one 3x a day. The leaking is absolutely disgusting. My skin was less dry, but my hair was oily while I was taking it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233921 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:59:01 +0000 Shutterbug 1233921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: LOL @ "cavernous vag"!!!!!! hahahaha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233917 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:58:19 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1233917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: best response ever. Soooo helpful. I'm glad your vagina isn't a cave. </p> <p>I have to go buy pads now!!</p> <p>Did you have side effects? I have distinct symptoms when pregnant. Should I ignore them? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233900 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:53:47 +0000 twodoghouse 1233900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: I took the waxy progesterone suppositories in addition to injections for a million years (or, 12 long weeks...)</p> <p>I apologize for all the TMI I'm about to spew out into this thread...</p> <p>Ok, so I only had to do nighttime suppositories so I did it RIGHT before bed. Like literally went from the bathroom to bed. I will admit that the first time I did it, I did not push the suppository up far enough and it literally fell out less than 10 minutes later when I got up to pee again. Ooops. So make sure you push it really far up and back (like further than I go with a tampon, but I only use applicator tampons, so I imagine they had the same final placement, but I never had to actually push the tampon up there with my fingers like with the progesterone). Once it's up in there, I sort of kegeled until it felt secure and then made a mad dash for bed. If I waited to brushe my teeth after inserting and before going to bed, I'd feel it slipping out (I promise my vagina is not a gaping cavernous hole, it just seems like it from this post...)</p> <p>This kind of progesterone should be refrigerated so I never had a problem with it melting before inserting - I'd usually carry it up to my bathroom on a little piece of paper towel, do my nighttime routine and then insert. However, it will leak like crazy once it's inside you! Definitely wear a pad to bed, and not one of those tiny ones. I'd wear those and end up with leakage all up the front and back of my underwear. And it's sort of greasy, so it doesn't wash out well. As a warning, the progesterone leakage smell the next morning was ATROCIOUS. It regularly made me gag. I *think* that's normal. I have read that if you're doing these suppositories for a long time, you could get a build up and you need to sort of swipe that out from time to time. I never really got much build up when I tried that though (maybe because it was all leaking out my cavernous vag...). </p> <p>Anyway, hope this helps some. Let me know if you have other questions! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233769 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:24:55 +0000 Shutterbug 1233769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've only ever been on Endometrin, but I do think the different brands can cause different side effects. Here's what my applicators (and pills) look like... not waxy. Do they come in individual packages? That might help with the stickiness, etc, if you wait til you're ready to open it up. Good luck! </p> [attach=674/13/mwmu5k.582x600.endometrinLG.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233754 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:21:47 +0000 LindsayInNY 1233754@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took it for the first time last cycle. Aside from needing to use panty liners all the time, I didn't notice a thing! Literally, nothing. Moods were the same, no PMS stuff, nothing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233737 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:19:02 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1233737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Happygal: they're wax bullets. They look like the Tylenol infant suppositories and I remember those melting a bit in my hands!</p> <p>An applicator wasn't included &amp; I didn't request one (I didn't think/know one would come in handy!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233693 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:09:13 +0000 Happygal 1233693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. jump rope: I'm sure the dosage affects people in different ways. 200 mg seems to be standard. I'm taking 100 mg twice a day. I'm not sure what you mean by the wax. Mine are pink little balls that I guess would melt if I held them for a long time. Some people use applicators like the ones that come with preseed, but unless you're squeamish, I would just use your finger. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233659 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:59:35 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1233659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do different brands and doses, and how you take it, have major differences in side effects?</p> <p>I'm taking 200mg of micronized vaginal suppositories. </p> <p>Won't lie -- how do you get these in without the wax melting? It looks like it will take a few tries before I get used to them &amp; it's not quite as messy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233622 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:48:05 +0000 Happygal 1233622@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sprite: i think it took a little bit to build up in my system before feeling the effects. My boobs are sore, I've had moments of feeling nauseous, and I got in a ridiculous fight with my husband that ended with me saying, "I don't know what's happening!!" meaning, why am I acting crazy? Now, is progesterone really to blame? I don't know for sure. But I do know one minute I was filled with rage, and the next I was near tears, so let's go with blaming it on the hormones! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233526 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:23:39 +0000 Alivoo01 1233526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Torchwood: YES!!!! I took progesterone orally and holy moly! I was always tired. Like can barely open my eyes and lift my arms tired! I was also bloated, lovely! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/progesterone-supplements-1#post-1233501 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:19:03 +0000 Torchwood 1233501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>SOOOOO tired. Like, holy crap, couldn't function within a limited time of taking them, tired. Which is to be expected. Progesterone is what causes all the fatigue during pms and early pregnancy, and in high enough doses will literally put you to sleep. But be sure to take it last thing before bed, and do not try to drive on it. </p> <p>Though just for the record, I'm more sensitive than most to things that make me sleepy, so you might not have as extreme tiredness as I do. </p>