When I stop Utro I feel properly Ill for about 10 days. I feel terrible all day, have to sleep sometimes, nauseas and have absolutely zero energy. I’ve felt so bad today that I stuck an Utro up there just to prove to myself that progesterone wouldn’t actually make me feel any better & this is indeed ‘just’ progesterone withdrawal. Needless to say, I feel just as suicidal a few hours after the Utro so it feels like I have no alternative but to go through this. I’ve been trying conti but couldn’t take it anymore due to the depression & fatigue so I stopped it. Felt mildly better for a couple of days & then wham, yesterday & this morning a complete tragedy!
Is this normal (whatever that means)? I’m beginning to think I need to go through the withdrawal no matter how bad it gets (will probably lose my job) and if I come out the other side…..hysterectomy might be the only option so I can be on oestrogen only. I’ve tried everything going for progesterone & feel I have no life! When my pg levels drop (or my oestrogen for that matter) my thyroid medication doesn’t seem to be to be utilised in my body. E.g been exhausted & freezing cold today (was in bed earlier, fully clothed with dressing gown on, duvet on top & reaching for a blanket). I know the fluctuation upset my thyroid meds massively. Would a hysterectomy take away the fluctuations I wonder? I might start a new thread on that. Sorry for the moan! Feels like this will never end 
Does anyone else suffer this badly? Not that I would want anyone too! I’m just trying to understand what the hell is wrong with me 
It's awful to hear you are suicidal, I hope help is at hand.
Have you tried oral, as I mention below, oral utro is the only route that relaxes me, I use both O and V.
I know I am addicted to progesterone, or it's metabolites, but only because I am tranquilliser dependent, and women who have been tranquilliser dependent cannot just come off progesterone, due to it's action on the receptors being the same as tranqulisers.
I did a very "loose" google search a few years ago and several women felt "addicted", however, I only skim read it, so cannot really comment on women who have never used tranquillisers getting withdrawals, I am sorry, I am not invalidating you, it must be awful.
Can you taper it?
I am tapering my tranquilliser under medical supervision.
I cannot taper a utrogestan capsule filled with fluid.
This used to scare me for years, until I figured out a way how I will do it when the time comes, as I no not like relying on pharmacies for anything.
I have had a lot of different help for different things from supplements and nootropics, however, as I am a bit ditzy, I do careful research and ask questions on interactions, and anything else I need to know. Maybe you could google supplements and research them.
As you have thyroid problems, I would research more.
I use reddit.
I use one oral and one vaginal utro (I could explain the reason in a different post/thread as I don't want to take this thread off on a tangent).
Only the oral one makes me sleepy. I need the V one though, to sufficiently oppose the O.
I wonder why?
Maybe explore trying oral utro. Maybe there are supplements and herbs to help on the non utro days if you are still peri? I can't stress enough, research is vital, as herbs and supplements, in my view, can affect us in various ways, good or bad, as drugs.
In meno, it's so easy to assume "The dark side" will happen, not just with meno, but with any problems, due to raised cortisol or other stress chemicals in our body, or lack of good ones.
Being in bed fully clothed with dressing gown on, and duvet on top & reaching for a blanket, sounds really difficult, as I don't know about thyroid, but I know you can feel the cold more, to say the least.
I feel glad this place is here when I have had moans in the past.
I don't have thyroid issues, my heart goes out to you.
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