Hi Rivadan
I do beg to disagree!
Compared to side effects like depression, irritability, migraine, headachey head fog and permanent PMT caused by some other synthetic progestins - these side effects are minor. The breath thing must only affect some women, and progesterone is known for its sedative effect, and occurs in the second half of our natural menstrual cycle anyway.
It is not commonly used I am sure because it is much cheaper to prescribe pills like premique than anything else and separate patches/pills and utro would be more expensive. I also think docs prefer us not to be messing around with separates and seem to prescribe it on request rather than as a matter of course. It also seems many have not heard of it - eespecially the old school docs brought up on the synthetic oestrogens and progesterones, widely used used in the early days of HRT before bioidenticals were produced.
For anyone who has problems on the progesterone part of HRT this is the most natural route and least likely to cause the horrible side effects mentioned above.
Being bio-identical it mimics as far as possible the natural progesterone in our bodies. I know many of us do not like taking/using it but it does have other functions in the body besides reproduction or protecting the womb so despite the tiredness etc I am happy to use it and would strongly recommend its use to anyone - at least to try it for a few months.
I'll get down off my soap box now....
Hurdity x
