What has been your experience with progesterone?

[Gianluca]

@Gman86 @Cataceous @JA Battle have you guys noticed any changes in Thyroid function/levels with the Injectable Pro?

 

[JA Battle]

@Gman86 @Cataceous @JA Battle have you guys noticed any changes in Thyroid function/levels with the Injectable Pro?

I did not test thyroid at the time. I only tested progesterone as I was going on how I felt vs the progesterone number I was achieving. Too bad too. Would be good to always see as much interplay between things as possible

 

[Gman86]

@Gman86 @Cataceous @JA Battle have you guys noticed any changes in Thyroid function/levels with the Injectable Pro?

Just looked back, and I don’t think the injectable prog changed my thyroid labs from what they were always around at the time.

My prog level has been coming back around 1.4-1.6 the past couple years now, while on nothing that should be increasing prog specifically. Legit cannot figure out what’s causing my level to be elevated. Literally did process of elimination with everything I could think of that would be increasing it. Still kept coming back high

Here’s my latest set of labs from a couple weeks ago. Well the thyroid and prog portions

 

[Gianluca]

Just looked back, and I don’t think the injectable prog changed my thyroid labs from what they were always around at the time.

My prog level has been coming back around 1.4-1.6 the past couple years now, while on nothing that should be increasing prog specifically. Legit cannot figure out what’s causing my level to be elevated. Literally did process of elimination with everything I could think of that would be increasing it. Still kept coming back high

Here’s my latest set of labs from a couple weeks ago. Well the thyroid and prog portions

1.5mg Pro did improve my thyroid function symptomatically, I had to actually cut back on my NDT a bit, I now inject 1mg Pro, and my PM body temp went from 98.6 down to 98.2, and have the symptoms, so I need to go up again with the NDT.

I have been out of the country for a little while, but I will be back next week and I'm going to be doing some testing, aiming for about .7 ng/ml with Pro at peak.

 

[Gman86]

1.5mg Pro did improve my thyroid function symptomatically, I had to actually cut back on my NDT a bit, I now inject 1mg Pro, and my PM body temp went from 98.6 down to 98.2, and have the symptoms, so I need to go up again with the NDT.

I have been out of the country for a bit, but I will be back next week and I'm going to be doing some testing, aiming for about .7 ng/ml with Pro at peak.

I mean my free T3 level used to hover in the 3’s for years, and now has been in the high 4’s for a while now. I just contributed it to my diet being cleaner and more micronutrient dense the past few years, but maybe my naturally high prog level is in fact contributing to the higher free T3 level. Really can’t be sure. Looking back I never did labs in a way that can conclusively tell me whether it is or not, unfortunately. I’ve messed with Lugol’s iodine off and on for years. Which makes a lot of the labs impossible to tell whether the prog is independently improving thyroid function or not. Haven’t been on lugols in a long time tho, and free T3 keeps coming back over the top of the range. So maybe it could be my high prog helping with that, or my diet, or both. Very hard to say. Only way to tell for sure would to keep everything the same as I’m doing now, go back on exogenous prog, and see if anything changes to a decent degree with my thyroid/ with my basal temps. But as long as I naturally have a high prog level, I probably won’t be messing with exogenous prog anytime soon.