Progesterone supplement the month before an attempt?

[daydrmbelievr]

Ladies,

I just miscarried in May and my doc advised me to wait until August to TTC. She thinks I might have lost the baby due to low progesterone.

I have a prescription for tablets, but I am wondering if I should take them this cycle (while we're NOT trying to get pregnant) to help increase progesterone for my first sway attempt in August??

Does Progesterone leave your body too quickly to make a difference, or would it help my sway? TIA!

[maidentomother]

It would be a total waste to take P in a non TTC cycle. Though I'm not a fsn of supplemental P in natural/non-IVF cycles to begin with. Usually when you miscarry due to low P, supplementing doesn't help. I'd suggest you try to get Clomid/Femara to boost O/egg quality/P levels from the beginning so you never have low P and don't need P supplementation. Unfortunately most of the time drs advise P supplements just do they can feel like they're doing something/to try to reassure patients, even though it very rarely helps prevent miscarriage. Low P is associated eith miscarriage NOT bc it causes it, but bc unhealthy/weak fetuses/placentas don't produce enough P. Taking extra P doesn't help improve the root problem.

Fortunately, you are very likely to conceive a healthy baby in the future and have no need for P anyway.

[atomic sagebrush]

^^^^ agree 110% with maiden. Taking progesterone at the wrong part of the cycle is a terrible idea that will delay ovulation and can possibly even make cysts develop.

THe reason why progesterone is low in a pregnancy, 99 times out of 100 is because something was wrong with the developing fetus and that is how the body ends a pregnancy when it senses that the pg is not normal. It gradually drops progesterone and then the pregnancy ends. I am not sure why your doctor explained it to you like that, maybe she was trying to spare your feelings or something but that was not really an accurate thing for her to have said.

progesterone swaying pink WAS NEVER PROVEN or shown even the slightest amount to work and in fact the claims that they make on "the other site" are impossible. They don't even understand what the guy who had the theory was saying (just because someone has low estrogen and high progesterone does NOT mean that high progesterone is what is swaying, it's very likely low estrogen that matters, and without having progesterone high enough to get and stay pregnant, one would never even get pregnant to begin with, if that makes sense...basically anyone with lowered fertility but still high enough to get and stay pregnant = more girls)