Ive just recently started taking progesterone pill, 1 a day on day 12-26.
Noticed that anytime i start on day 12 or come off on day 26 (actually day 27 with no pill), I seem to have extreme insomnia with whole body heart beats.
Is this a coincidence or is the progesterone interrupting my sleep pattern?
Posted by hammer (Member # 17201) on :
I take my progesterone cream in the morning. If I take it later in day/evening it keeps me awake.
Most doctors will say take at night becauses it will help you sleep. And it does help me sleep, but only if I take in the morning.
Posted by kelmo (Member # 8797) on :
I do a cream. Absorbed readily doesn't have to be processed through the liver. Get one that is vacuum sealed, and pumps premeasured 20mg.
Apply to a different fatty area of the body on clean skin am and pm.
Posted by faithful777 (Member # 22872) on :
I think that the creams work better than the pills and the directions for me are to use my progesterone cream at night. It helps me sleep.
Posted by Dekrator48 (Member # 18239) on :
My progesterone is also oral. I take mine 3 weeks on and 1 week off.
It really does help me sleep. On the week that I do not take it, I sometimes have a little trouble falling back to sleep if I wake up during the night.
My LLMD and my OB-GYN both said that the progesterone should be oral to protect the uterus from cancer. I'm sure others have different opinions, but that is what they said.