Lara Briden's Forum

I´m 50 and raiding the cupboards for anything sweet or carby. It is always in the second half of my cycle and ranges from a week before my period OR sometimes for the full 2/3 weeks post ovulation time. I´ve always had this tendancy to crave at this time but the past few months it is worse. Is this ...

Hi, I had this too. I read this phase of the cycle with higher levels of progesterone can slow down bowel movements to extract maximum nutrients from the food you eat, in preparation for a pregnancy... However, I noticed severe rabbit poop (sorry for being graphic!!) like constipation much more when...

Hi Jen, My migranes are pretty much the same as yours. 5-6 years ago at 45 years old I started progesterone utrogestan 2 weeks of the month which helped my migranes in the later stage of my cycle. I thought I had cracked it!! About 1 year ago I started with the day 4/8 & day 10-12 migranes that ...

Thanks for reply & for setting up the forum. I hope it takes off, there are plenty of us hormonally challenged females with lots of experience to share!

I love progesterone & it had really helped my migranes just before my period started. Then I started getting awful migranes from day 4 to day 12. Progesterone didn´t help. I started a low dose estrogen patch (25ug/24hrs) from day 2 to day 14 and the migranes are much reduced & I feel so much...