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Sometimes, too much information can be a bad thing. If you look hard enough, you can find dangerous side effects to anything and everything including the food you eat and the air you breath. Let's face it, nothing is safe these days, but its much safer to breath the air than it is not to and its much safer to eat than to starve yourself. This is no exception. Take the progesterone and risk feeling a little nauseaus or don't take it and risk miscarriage. It's that simple! I've never heard of cleft palate being related in anyway to progesterone. This is an inherited birth defect. I'm sure some parents who've taken progesterone have given birth to babies with birth defects, but does that mean it was caused by the progesterone? Probably not. Talk to your physician.

wow i thought i was alone i m/c at 8 wks in may i am now 13 weeks i have pcos and on progesterone in oil shot once a week heartbeat is 160 so i am now getting excited about this preg i have ttc for 10 years and with the help of clomid 100mg i have conceived twice i would love to have an email buddy to share stories with!!!!friendly762001@yahoo.com

Ladies, please get the book "What your doctor won't tell you about premenopause" By Dr. Lee and Dr. Hanley. I just read it . I was at the end of my ropes. I had 2 miscarries this past year, was depressed, fatigued, had night sweats, insomnia, weight gain, hot flashes, sore b___sts, low progesterone levels during luteal phase, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, irregualr periods etc. My ob/gyn didn't want to see me unless I was testing positive for pregnancy, my family doctor prescribed Prozac and sent me to a shrink. I am 36 and with all of the above symptoms you would think premenopause would of struck somebody in the head as being an option. As I filled my perscription for Prozac at the pharmacy I noticed the book on the shelf and the words," Natural Progesterone" and "Premenopause from 30-50yrs." hit me. I read the book in 2 days and have ordered the Natural Progesterone Cream. I start using it this weekend after I ovulate. It can't hurt and even if I never get pregnant again it will help my PMS and other symptoms that I have been suffering with. When my OB/GYN told me my progesterone was low (which causes me to be estrogen dominant which promotes cancer!) you think she would of checked the rest of my hormones and tried to level them out. All she said was that if I should get pregnant again she would put me on Progesterone. Well if you have low progesterone during your luteal phase you may not get preganant again. She didn't want to hear it. Well, I'm just going to have to play a more active roll when it comes to my health and the health of my family. I'm not going to sit back and believe what every doctor tells me. I don't believe that every woman needs to have a hysterectomy either. If you are balancing your homones you should be able to keep it. Think about it, 40 years ago women didn't die because they kept their uterous. Their hormones changed and they had problems. Then they went through menopause and their problems stopped. Anyway read the book. It's the best $5.00 I have ever spent.

Hi all - Despite seeing a heartbeat at 7 1/2 weeks and taking crinone for an initially low (12), though ever increasing progesterone level, the ultrasound today at 9 1/2 weeks showed a correct for age gestational sac (explaining the awful nausea I've still been experiencing) but no more baby - just a pile of debris on the floor of the sac. It was a huge shock. This was my third miscarriage this year - the other two all had cramping, spotting, and never saw anything in the sac. I also had a miscarriage 10 years ago (just before I got pregnant with my now 8 year old daughter) - another blighted ovum. I've also had an endometrial polyp removed this year, and an ectopic. Hard to say if any of this is related, but I'm 37 and don't have much time left, but don't have much energy for this anymore either. My doctor is testing the fetus for chromomal abnormalities this time, and talk of sending me for extensive specialist testing. I think I'm ready to just give up, though. This has been too hard.

I am so sorry that you are going through this again. Thank God you have one child, I don't have any. I told my husband that this was the last time for me. I am totally open for adoption even though he's not crazy about it. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Hang in there, Tina... I know I am lucky to have my daughter. I told the Doctor this as he was preparing to perform the D&C. You know, my mom had 4 mc's and a stillbirth - she said enough is enough and finally adopted me...:) I also have a family friend who after 3 mcs had a fullterm baby which died as a consequence of a cord accident. She's had two more since. She had some sort of uterine abnormality which was repaired (before the cord accident baby - that was just more horrible luck). Sometimes people are just really unlucky....

Hi..I just found out i was pregnant 3 weeks ago i don't really know how far long i am yet the doctors can't really decide either.They found the sac in my uterus but no heartbeat at all.They sent me for bloodwork and told me to get it done every 48 hrs...but my levels keep decreasing...i as well have to go get a sonogram tomorrow...pray it all goes wee...your in my thoughts.

Erin, I am so sorry to hear about your loss! I know there's very little I can say at this point, to comfort or encourage you, but try not to lose faith. I am 38 years old and am 10 weeks pregnant. I realize that at any moment I could find myself in the same situation. I, too, have miscarried in the past and absolutely hated it when someone would suggest to me that it was "GOD's will". That's just a bunch of c___p. Don't ever let anyone tell you any different. GOD would never will anything bad to happen to us. Sometimes, things just happen for no reason at all. It's the way we deal with those things that ultimately end up teaching us a lot about ourselves and who we are. I lost my little sister last year and thought that I would never recover nor did I want to, but as time went on I began to look at life so differently and came to realize how fragile and precious each one of us really are. I notice that I don't take things for granted the way I used to. This is just an example. What I'm really trying to say is that it's possible to draw strength from these tragedies, instead of allowing it to get the better of us to the point where we're willing to just give up. Don't ever give up or allow yourself to feel defeated by today's circ_mstances, because tomorrow is a new day and with each new day there is new hope. Continue taking folic acid and B12 and I would even recommend Goji juice if you have not tried it and whatever you do... DON"T GIVE UP!!!

Thanks Shelby for your kind words. I'm just so numb right now. I had a "real" blighted ovum about nine years ago... never any baby just an empty sac, and another like this (expelled naturally) at about six weeks earlier this year. Then I had what the doctor guessed was an ectopic, as they could never actually find the pregnancy and I was given methotrexate to dissolve it. I had an endometrial polyp removed shortly after that, which was though to contribute to my problems... I felt confident this would be a healthy pregnancy. I spotted a tiny bit in the first few weeks, took my progesterone since 5 weeks with absolutely no spotting after that and an embryo with a fetal heart beat at 7. 5 weeks. Everything I read said once you see the heartbeat, the risk of miscarriage plummets. I just don't understand how there could have been a baby with a heartbeat (right size for dates, good heartbeat) and then suddenly an empty sac two weeks later. The doctor said there appeared to be some "debris" in the sac, so I'm guessing the baby just disintegrated. He's having the "debris" tested for chromosomal abnormalities, and thinks this is quite likely the reason for the failure of this pregnancy. Which would make this miscarriage just really bad luck... But I can't keep going through this, whatever the reason. I've been pregnant three times since February, with crippling morning sickness this last time... I've lost almost a year of my life, worrying, in and out of hospitals, feeling sick... I feel like I have no quality of life. I am having trouble enjoying my husband and eight year old daughter... My daughter is from my first marriage. I had been married to her father for 7 year before getting pregnant - he started having an affair with a colleage when I was pregnant (had to abstain from s_x due to placenta previa). He left me for her when my daugher was still an infant. Now I'm married to a great guy (who can have children - he has two from his first marriage), but am an old shrivelled up crone who can't carry a pregnancy. It's just too much to bear.

Erin, First of all, you are NOT "a shriveled up old crone", but if you start thinking that way you will be. The way we perceive ourselves on the inside has a way of manifesting on the outside. Instead try thinking of yourself as beautiful and s_xy and wise. Your ex sounds like a real jerk and you are much better without him! He's probably cheating on the woman he cheated on you with. He did you a favor by leaving. Now you have someone wonderful and you don't have to spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder! As far as yor pregnancy goes, there must be some medical explanation for what's happening. Hopefully, you're doctor will be able to determine what it is and be able to offer some sort of advice. Could you and your new hubby have incompatible blood types? Do you take vitamins even when you're not pregnant? Let me know what your doc says and take good care of yourself and your husband and daughter. Good luck!

Hi Shelby - do you mean RH factor? Yes in fact both my husbands are/were RH pos and I am RH neg. I have had so many RhoGam shots I can't count. My daughter, however, inherited by incredibly rare blood type (AB neg), so the doctor says there was no opportunity for me to be "contaminated" by RH pos blood. I also had a blighted ovum a few weeks before I conceived my daughter. I'm starting to really wonder how she turned up after all this!

Erin, I'm not real familiar with the RH factor, but doesn't that mean that your own immunity system will start to attack the fetus? Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I think I read about it when I was pregnant with my first child. Of, course that was almost 16 years ago. Have you visited a genetic counselor? If you want you can e-mail me at shelbyrecord@msn.com I would like to discuss this some more with you.

Erin - I read you posts and I'm so terribly sorry for your loss. I was looking for progesterone related topics and came across this one. I have had one day of spotting about 4 to 6 days before a/f and I went to see my GP (ttc 3 months now) and she won't send me to a ob/gyn just yet as she feels that all my symptoms are related to low progesterone/estrogen dominance. I was on the pill for over 10 years and went off it 7 cycles ago so she thinks that my body is just trying to reajust itself and it will on its own in time, maybe 3 months or less (so she a__sumes). Anybody have experience with this?

Hi Ladies, I just tested 4 hours ago to see if I was ovulating yet and it said no. Then I just went to pee and wiped and there was a mucus that I believe is what shows up when you get ready to ovulate. I just hate having all these different symptoms and trying to keep track of them all. This past cycle I spotted brown discharge, not much, but for 8 days. Then I started a light period. Every day I tested to see if I was pregnant but no luck. I have low progesterone levels in my luteal phase and no children yet. Had 2 miscarries in the last 1 1/2 yrs. Last miscarry was in January. It took us 6 months each time to get pregnant and now it's been 9 months of O test kits, Preg Tests and I'm having all these weird premenopause symptoms that throw me for a loop. I'm waiting for my progesterone cream to come in the mail so I can start using it on the 12 day of my cycle if I can ever figure out what day that is. Anyway, just needed to vent a little.

Rachel- You don't need a referral to see an OB/GYN doctor ever. Especially if you're pregnant and spotting. You are pregnant, aren't you? Don't you have an OB/GYN doctor you go to for your annual pap smears? You obviously aren't comfortable with your GP's opinion on the matter. Trust your instincts and get to an OB/GYN doctor for a second opinion. What've you got to lose?

I searched the word progesterone and found this post but now that I see it is in the pregancy complications section - I'm still a "trying to get pregnant" section girl. Shelby - in Canada you have to be referred by your GP to a ob/gyn always. I heard that the US changed that law a while back so that you could go to an ob/gyn when you wanted to. In Canada, they won't accept appt's unless referred by your GP (trust me I tried). I have probably had at least 2 missed pregnancies these past couple months due to the low progesterone/estrogen dominance. I was just wondering if anybody had this problem after going off the pill but now realize I was in the wrong section...sorry about that.