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Scarlett | 20:48 Fri 15th Jan 2021 | Body & Soul
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I’ve been taking some progesterone cream – rubbing it on every day, about the same amount as you do use toothpaste. I read a report that it can cause high blood pressure. I do tend to have high blood pressure, but have no idea whether it is linked with this. Does anybody have any experience of progesterone cream – this one is called Natpro. I’m
50 and taking it for perimenopause.
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Where are you rubbing it? If you want a systemic effect medicine would be more useful. What symptoms do you have?
This letter, to the British Medical Journal, can only rank as 'anecdotal evidence' but the editor clearly believed that it was worth publishing:
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/warning-about-natural-progesterone

What are you actually using the product for? (There is no licensed progesterone cream for HRT use).
I have no experience of progesterone cream.
I can find no trials, properly conducted therapeutic trials, the link to the pharmacological mentioned in the BMA letter was unavailable.
I find it difficult to link a transdermal hormone cream to sustained hypertension.
There is little more that I can add.
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General perimenopausal stuffs- thinning hair, mood swings etc. I think it has definitely helped, but I don’t want to it to be causing blood pressure issues; not that I have any way of checking atm!

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