Compounded hormone therapy helped me get pregnant and have a baby

08.15.2022

Minnesota Sartell

“Compounded hormone therapy helped me get pregnant and have a baby”

I have struggled with hormones all of my life. Starting in middle school when I got my period and had it for months at a time. Finally going off birth control which helped regulate everything, I struggled to get pregnant. I went and saw a specialist for women’s hormones and realized that my progesterone was almost nonexistent. If you do not have progesterone in your body you cannot get pregnant nor will you be able to sustain a pregnancy. My provider put me on natural progesterone and I was able to get pregnant. I have continued on this progesterone because it has greatly affected my life. I may no longer need to get pregnant, however, it is keeping my energy levels up, helping me to get plenty of rest and sleep well during the night, keeping my libido up, as well as helping to balance my other hormones. I do not know what I would do without it, I have been instructed that I should be on this for the rest of my life since my body does not seem to make enough progesterone. I would not take a synthetic medication for progesterone. I believe in treating the whole body and first and foremost consuming good foods for you, getting plenty of sleep, exercise, etc. Do not think that if you get rid of compounded hormone therapy I will just take some sort of a nasty drug because I won’t.

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