Men: What has been your experience with progesterone?

Sorry, I know there are a ton of other threads on progesterone, but seems like a lot of them get derailed and you have to filter through like 12 pages of comments and studies people posted. I just want to know straight up, what has been your experience with progesterone?

For me, I’m on day 5 of about 5mg applied to my balls. The first few days were great. Awesome mood and libido. Now libido is down and it’s difficult to reach orgasm (Sorry if that’s TMI). I’m thinking maybe the scrotal application is too much for me? Anyways, I’m curious to hear of others experiences.

 

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

 

@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 @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

 

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.

 

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.

 

Nah it had nothing to do with the injections. Injections don’t bother me a bit, especially subQ injections. I currently take ipa and CJC, as well as GHK-Cu. Take them both in the AM and PM. So two injections AM, 2 injections PM. And for a bit I was doing daily IM injections for my test, deca and primo. Which I split into 2 syringes. Test in one, deca and primo in the other. So for a while i was doing 2 IM injections everyday. So overall injecting something would never prevent me from using it, if it was the best method of administration, and there were benefits to taking it

I stopped because I just wasnt sure if it was helping anything or not. It’s hard to notice subjective benefits from things sometimes. There’s just so many things that can affect how we feel and function on a daily basis. So it’s just hard to tell if say injectable prog is helping or hurting energy, or helping or hurting sexual function, or helping or hurting sleep. Just cuz there’s so many other things on a daily basis that can affect these things. Sometimes I would think it would be helping my mood, or sexual function, or sleep, but then when my mood would be slightly less than what I like, or energy wasn’t great, or my brain fog was slightly worse, during the time I was taking it, it’s hard to not think “well maybe it’s the prog making me not feel ideal today”. Overall, I just felt like I didn’t notice any consistent and discernible benefits from it, and sometimes I felt like maybe it could be making me feel worse. But again, it’s so hard to know what’s making u feel certain ways, especially when the changes are very subtle.

now I have the opposite problem, I can’t get my prog levels down for the life of me. They keep coming back around 1.4-1.6. Not taking anything that should be increasing prog levels this high. At least nothing that I’m aware of. I stopped taking HCG, and stopped taking lugols iodine, and hoping that it’s one of those that was elevating it. I’ve pretty much ruled out anything else that could possibly be doing it

Hi, what did you do to finally bring your levels down back to normal? And did you notice any feminizing effects of progesterone or any high cortisol symptoms? From taking progesterone myself, I have noticed some feminization and excess stress, although I took an excess amount of 5-10mg and sometimes up to 20mg.