Progesterone and PCO

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Here's an email conversation on PCO...

"S" writes...

"I suffer with Polycystic overies and the symptoms are terrible to
live with. I have seen the Dr hundreds of times and begged them to
help me but have no joy. My symptoms are: tiredness, no sex drive,
memory loss, changed emotions, terrible periods, flaky nails. hair
growth"

And here's my answer...

"Dear S, Many thanks for your email. I hope I can help, as we've had
success with progesterone and PCO with other women. It's my belief
that it's in fact caused by a lack of progesterone.

Two of the main symptoms of PCO are insulin resistance and high
androgens, so most doctors when confronted with PCO either give
their patients the Pill or put them on the diabetes drug Metformin.
The Pill to suppress the androgens and the Metformin to correct the
insulin resistance, but neither of them addresses the cause.

The Pill contains a synthetic version of progesterone, which often
has major side affects, one of them is to cause depression by
lowering your own natural progesterone level, this can then cause
oestrogen dominance symptoms, one of which is nausea.

Have you had your progesterone level checked? And have you had a
homocysteine and d-Chiro-inositol blood test? All of these should
have been done as they all have a bearing on the problem.

Briefly, during the first half of our cycle follicle stimulating
hormone and oestrogen cause the egg to mature, at mid cycle
lutenising hormone causes the follicle to burst and the egg is
released. The follicle, now called the corpus luteum, starts
producing progesterone. The first half of this cycle occurs in PCO
but instead of the egg being released it isn't, a cyst forms
instead, which means no progesterone is made. By supplementing with
progesterone blood sugar problems are resolved, the androgens are
counteracted and the cysts are absorbed back into the body. It
takes time but eventually the problems are resolved.

I once had an assistant, who when she joined me had severe PCO with
a 4cm ovarian cyst which her doctor had found by a scan and wanted
to remove surgically. Well after a month of progesterone the cyst
had completely gone. About a year later she had a child, which is
generally difficult with PCO.

Please consider taking Omega 3 fish oil for your skin and if you
can bear it flax oil too. Both are so good for the skin. The
Omega 3 in flax oil is converted to the longer chain fatty acids,
but only slowly. But the flax has other actions which seem to 'oil'
us.

You'll find that the progesterone also helps tremendously with your
skin. Please come back to me if you have any more questions."

Till next time.

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Wray Whyte
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