When to use progesterone cream
The cream is best applied twice a day, to keep levels up.
- Day 1 to ovulation No cream
- Day 1 after ovulation 4.25ml
- Day 2 4.25ml
- Day 3 4.25ml
- Day 4 4.25ml
- Day 5 4.25ml
- Day 6 4.25ml
- Day 7 4.25ml
- Day 8 4.25ml
- Day 9 4.25ml
- Day 10 4.25ml
- Day 11 4.25ml
- Day 12 4.25ml
- Day 13 4.25ml
- Day 14 4.75ml (remainder of tube)
Total 60ml / 2oz
Menstruation should start within a day or two of stopping the cream.
How to use progesterone cream in pre-menopause
- 14 days
- 2,000mg of progesterone (one tube of Natpro), divided by 14 days gives 142.7mg progesterone per day. This equates to 4.25ml/day or almost 1 (one) teaspoon
- The cream should only be used during the last fourteen days of the cycle, that is from ovulation till the period starts. It should not be started on day 14, unless you have a 28 day cycle
How to use progesterone cream in peri-menopause
Learning how to use progesterone cream during peri-menopause is complicated by the facts that cycles become very erratic, bleeding can be very light to flooding, 2 weeks apart to 3 months apart, clots, spotting, sometimes pain.
Peri-menopause is the time when progesterone is vital for well being. Levels start dropping from the age of thirty five, whereas oestrogen remains at normal levels until menopause, when they drop sharply.
It’s the unbalanced ratio of the two that causes the symptoms.
It’s best to ignore the cycle, as it is now too erratic, and use the cream every day. Supplemental progesterone used before ovulation will prevent this occurring and prevent endogenous progesterone from being made. However, as anovulation (failure to ovulate) is the norm during peri-menopause, causing progesterone levels to drop, you need not be concerned about using it every day without a break.
How to use progesterone cream in menopause
As there is no cycle choose any day to start. The following amount of progesterone is based on 28 days to give some idea of the amount of cream to use, but if symptoms are severe more will be needed.
Contraceptive and HRT users
Oral contraceptives and HRT are packed in 28 day cycles. The first half comprises oestrogen only, the second half is a progestin, possibly combined with placebo pills. Supplemental progesterone should only be used in the second half of the Pill or HRT cycle. The same applies to users of the patches. For other forms of contraception or HRT, ie. progestin only, injections, implants, IUD’s, etc., progesterone should be used every day.
NB
2,000mg of progesterone (one tube of Natpro), divided by 28 days = 71.4mg progesterone per day.
This equates to 2.15ml of cream per day or almost 1/2 a teaspoon.
NB
- 1 ml (1/5th tsp) of Natpro cream contains 33.3mg of progesterone
- 2ml (2/5th tsp) contains 66.6mg of progesterone
- 3ml (3/5th tsp) contains 100mg of progesterone
- 4ml (4/5th tsp) contains 133.2mg progesterone
- 5ml (1tsp) contains 166.5mg progesterone
- 1/8th teaspoon (0.625ml) contains 20.8mg progesterone
- 1/4tsp (1.25ml) contains 41.6mg
- 1/2tsp (2.5ml) contains 83.2mg
- 3/4tsp (3.75ml) contains 124.8mg progesterone
- 1tsp (5ml) contains 166.5mg progesterone
- 1ml (1/5th tsp) will cover both feet and both legs, or both arms, stomach and breasts
Having read this you have now learnt pretty much all there to know about how to use progesterone cream.
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