Progesterone hack for the intolerant

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One option I have used to provoke a bleed when I don't want to do P for too long

(it depresses me and I start getting low immune - colds, etc) is to get the over

the counter morning after pill, Plan B. I'll do Prometrium for a few days and

or do vaginal as well and when I notice I'm not going to get anywhere near 14

days (sometime I start getting sick at 7 days for example) then I'll take Plan B

and then stop everything. This usually provokes a good bleed. The idea I'm

working with is to get a peak and then drop it all fast to flip switches.

Sometimes I fast drop everything including the E. If I do a fast drop I can go

several days without E.

So I do use P, but not every month. It's about 3 or 4 months. If I could

tolerate the P every month I'd do it, but I'm not there yet. Slowly, slowly...

working my way along.

One thing that helps is that I feel empowered by having this option with HRT

rather than moaning that getting older is hard. I've focused on it, made it a

serious project and then I get in a state of flow about figuring it out. We

are all going to die so might as well gleefully rock this time we have left and

make some hard choices about " pound the P " or not. I'm so freaking thrilled

that I get to hold my own ovaries - so to speak. What a time we live in! No

brittle bones like my grandmothers had.

Laurel