TRT suppression of testicular progesterone production

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I recently had a saliva test that indicated low Progesterone. In doing

some research, I found out that Testosterone replacement therapy while

suppressing natural testosterone production, also suppresses

progesterone production in the testicles. Additionally, while

Pregnenolone supplementation can increase Progesterone, it's unclear how

effective this is.

In all the time I've been on TRT, not once has Progesterone been tested.

I have been tested for DHEAs regularly and supplementation with 100

mg/day is needed to get close to the middle of the lab reference range

and I'm still not into the optimum range for DHEAs as recommend by LEF.

I'd like to get my progesterone levels up to closer to mid range if

not the optimum range, whatever that happens to be.

Has anyone here dealt with this problem, taken pregnenolone to resolve

this, or used progesterone cream, or perhaps some other method to raise

progesterone levels?

It's difficult to find information on free verses total progesterone, so

I'm looking at just increasing total (bound+free).

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