Anyone have experience taking oral progesterone on day 10?

Re: Anyone have experience taking oral progesterone on day 10?

• beary67 member

  October 2016

  Mummy2be2016 said:

  My Dr. found I had low progesterone, so prescribed Progesterone 200 mg starting on day 10 of my cycle.  I started this month, and fortunately haven't had any of the nasty side effects some people seem to get.  But I also have had barely any ewcm this month.  I usually get it for a few days, and this month I had a little bit one morning and that was it.  I also tried using the Clear blue fertility monitor for the first time this month, and it has yet to set a peak day, which should probably have been today or yesterday, going by my calendar and past months.  My bbt chart has been high since I started taking the progesterone, which I guess makes sense since that's one of the things that makes your temp rise after o.  Then I started looking on-line and some people were saying that taking progesterone before o can actually prevent it from happening, so now I'm wondering why my Dr. would have me start taking this at day 10.  So, I'm just wondering if anyone else has been put on progesterone at day 10 and gotten pregnant?  Or if anyone has any idea why I would be told to take it on day 10 when almost everyone else seems to be given it after ovulation?

  From my experience, you start progesterone after you confirm ovulation.  Otherwise, it can prevent ovulation from occurring. Starting it on CD 10 seems way to early. What kind of doctor are you working with? 

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• Mummy2be2016 member

  October 2016

  Thanks for replying beary67. Right now I'm just seeing my obgyn. 
  

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• [Deleted User] member

  October 2016

  I agree, unless it's being taken to help regulate the symptoms of menopause, there is absolutely no reason why a doctor would have you take it that early in your cycle, UNLESS S/HE WERE INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO PREVENT OVULATION, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.
  
  You're absolutle right, progesterone rises AFTER ovulation, so the effect would be to trick your body into thinking it had already ocurred, thereby preventing it from actually happening.  If you are indeed TTC, I think it's time to find a new doctor.
  
  Call the pharmacy, though, since it's a Sunday, and run the directions by them.  Maybe somehow you misundersrood the instructions?  I know most pharmacists will actually ask the patient about it if the instructions seem off from how it's usually precsribed.  I don't mean to insult you; that's just the only possible explaination I can think of, because those instructions really just are not right.
  
  The only reason to start P4 on CD10 is if you had ovulated on CD7, and that is not a common enough thing that the doctor would assume that at all.  Progesterone is always started somewhere around 2-5 days AFTER ovulation for ttc purposes, and continued for approximately 10 days throughout the rest of the LP, perhaps with specific instructions as to when to stop in order to allow menses.  GL

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• beachbunnyxo123 member

  October 2016

  I second all that @beary67 and @BusinessWife said. I always get suspect when OBGYNs are prescribing meds that should be under close supervision of an RE. I would also suggest to call the pharmacy for further clarification and follow up with the doctor tomorrow.  Good luck! 

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• LadyMillil member

  October 2016

  I never started progesterone until 3 days after O, so CD17-20 depending on the cycle. Progesterone will increase your bbt. 

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• Dilynne member

  October 2016

  Ditto everyone else. Maybe the instructions were unclear and said start on CD18 but the pharmacist read 10? You know, doctor handwriting?

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• Mummy2be2016 member

  October 2016

  Thanks for the answers!  The Dr. told me the same thing over the phone before I started the progesterone, to start on day 10, so I know it wasn't an unclear instruction to the pharmacist.  I guess I'll be calling the Dr. tomorrow.  It's a little frustrating since this has probably pushed my chances of getting pregnant back another month, and I was feeling a little more hopeful about this month because if progesterone was the only thing that was keeping me from getting pregnant than maybe it could have happened this month.  Oh, well!  I might need to start looking for a new Dr.

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