Sorry Duchess, I know it's confusing! Yes, I do use Utrogestan (which I am going to try and replace with the natural progesterone cream) but have tried to go for the long (3 month) cycle HRT several times and not made it - I get a period bang on time without using the Utrogestan while trying to go for the longer cycle. Last time, I tried scale it back and go for a six week cycle and yet again, I didn't make it and got a period again which, as I said, was the same volume of blood but because of the low progesterone levels, lasted 14 days instead of the usual 6 days - believe me, it was the real deal and not breakthrough bleeding! That is what I meant when I said that I get periods without using any progesterone.
I tried two pumps of oestrogen gel but didn't feel very good so I reverted to 3 pumps, which is what Professor Studd recommends, and felt completely normal again.
Even one 100mg capsule of Utrogestan sets off a migraine so I would not want to risk 200mg. I once tried Norethisterone 2.5mg and had 5 silent migraine attacks in one day, 4 the next and the 1 the following day, this is the dreadful effect it has on me and I simply cannot function while taking this stuff. The Utrogestan does not affect me as badly, probably because it is bio identical, but nonetheless, I want to find an alternative hence the trial run on Serinity.
Interestingly, I never had any migraines while I was still producing adequate quantities of my own progesterone.