My (Male) Experience of High Dose Progesterone
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As an early-twenties male I started taking oral progesterone powder to help severe depression. Overall it has been positive. My mood and cognition has permanently improved. Long-term memories have come back sharper than they were before. My face is more healthy-looking and attractive.
I did get knocked out a few times at higher doses.
The dose was ramped up until I felt an effect. At seven grams dosing there was still no effect felt and I decided not to go higher. This first week it felt like my brain was healing. Then as my body got more sensitive to it, I had an episode of severe sedation and could have fallen and gotten injured but luckily I survived.
So I continued lowering the dose over the months, occasionally taking DHEA for androgen balance, had another episode of extreme sedation (these come out of the blue), etc.
No feminizing effects for me, no change in facial hair growth. It noticably made my face appear healthier and more attractive. I am no longer sensitive to bright lights.
There was a thinning and lightening of p*bic hair and armpit hair. One time I abruptly stopped for a week and my d**k shrank until resuming.
I realized it was starting to make me chronically disinhibited and more confident and more outgoing but it was as if I was drunk all the time. At this point I switched to low dose topical CortiNon and Progestene usage. This has been great and my p*bic hair is back to normal.
The oral progesterone was taken alongside milk which I believe has a protective effect on the gut against potential impurities like residual solvents.
It did not resolve apathy and anhedonia.
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Interesting. I also upped my dose and have been having a similiar experience.
I wonder why your dick shrank when you took a break? Did it return to normal?
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@nicemushroom17 The shrinking usually happens for a day or so if one takes too much progest e dont ask me how I know that
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@nicemushroom17 it returned to normal pretty quickly when I resumed the hormones
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@basebolt Do you just take progesterone and DHEA?
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@nicemushroom17 yes. According to haidut progesterone could interfere with natural dhea spikes or something so it's good to take them both. He has also said for dhea the proper dose is one to two milligrams, if I'm remembering correctly, otherwise could shutdown natural production.
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@basebolt nice and so are you taking a high dose of progesterone everyday still?
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@nicemushroom17 No the high dose was making me chronicly drunk. I switched to a few milligrams prog. topically. With 0.5 to 1 mg dhea topically, sometimes orally or sublingual too. Using idealabs CortiNon and Progestene.
