Progesterone Lozenges

[mitsybitsy]

Just wondering, has anyone ever heard of taking progesterone around your period? I read somewhere that some people take progesterone lozenges around their period to prevent having a seizure. Since that is usually when I have some little problems I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they do that and how it works for them. I also take birth control, can you take birth control and use the progesterone or is it one or the other? Because then I guess I would have to find out about coming off the birth control. Any feed back would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Bernard]

I've never heard of progesterone lozenges. Most women with catamenial epilepsy use a prescribed progesterone cream AFAIK. If you don't have catamenial epilepsy, I don't think progesterone is going to help.

[LuvMyTwins]

Most BC controls the estrogen levels which, yes, cause seizures. I chose to take Depo-Provera as my BC b/c it adds extra protection against seizures with the extra progestrone.

There are a lot of BCs out there that can help in this area. You may want to check around at them. Taking both BC and extra progesterone may be an issue.---LMT

[RobinN]

The studies I found on Pub Med said that synthetic progesterone was not as beneficial as bio-identical progesterone.