02-08-2012, 12:53
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2012, 14:21 by mochaccino.)
I don't know anywhere near enough either. I feel like I'm making myself a guinea pig for a new way of using PC and Im not at all comfortable with that. I wish that I had a more tried and true method to rely on. I think that for now I really need to cut my PC use down to a bare minimum. Even a tiny amount of PC might be enough to help but too much could be a disaster.
Mumma Bear (on the NB forum) and Notsobusty did grow on programs that are extremely similar to mine, and there may be others that I can't remember. Notsobusty shrunk when she took a full dose of PC for 2 weeks during luteal phase. She did not have a progesterone deficiency as far as she knew. That might mean that it's possible for someone with normal hormone levels to seriously OD on progesterone in only one cycle. That worries me, but I'm still glad to know about it. I used PC for 9 days at the beginning of this program, before starting PM, and I had one sign of progesterone toxicity. It was only one sign, but it was pretty severe. I felt extremely sleepy, but not just sleepy. It was more like I had just come out of anesthesia. I described my experience near the end of my last program thread. Sleepiness and confusion don't sound like such serious symptoms, but they were bad enough that it was kind of scary. I still swelled up a bit anyway, and I definitely did not shrink. Interestingly, it did not lengthen my cycle at all, but I'm not sure what to make of that.
I'm going to skip PC this month, which will give me time to figure out how I'm going to use it. I think it might use it for 3 days total, stopping 2 days before I expect my period to start. Dr.Lee claims that 2 days should be long enough to prevent any disruptions of the cycle length, but almost all his advice is aimed at people who are progesterone deficient.
Mumma Bear (on the NB forum) and Notsobusty did grow on programs that are extremely similar to mine, and there may be others that I can't remember. Notsobusty shrunk when she took a full dose of PC for 2 weeks during luteal phase. She did not have a progesterone deficiency as far as she knew. That might mean that it's possible for someone with normal hormone levels to seriously OD on progesterone in only one cycle. That worries me, but I'm still glad to know about it. I used PC for 9 days at the beginning of this program, before starting PM, and I had one sign of progesterone toxicity. It was only one sign, but it was pretty severe. I felt extremely sleepy, but not just sleepy. It was more like I had just come out of anesthesia. I described my experience near the end of my last program thread. Sleepiness and confusion don't sound like such serious symptoms, but they were bad enough that it was kind of scary. I still swelled up a bit anyway, and I definitely did not shrink. Interestingly, it did not lengthen my cycle at all, but I'm not sure what to make of that.
I'm going to skip PC this month, which will give me time to figure out how I'm going to use it. I think it might use it for 3 days total, stopping 2 days before I expect my period to start. Dr.Lee claims that 2 days should be long enough to prevent any disruptions of the cycle length, but almost all his advice is aimed at people who are progesterone deficient.