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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
My estrogen and testosterone are topical.
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