Progesterone Cream?

[Scarlett]

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.

[bednobs]

Where are you rubbing it? If you want a systemic effect medicine would be more useful. What symptoms do you have?

[Buenchico]

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).

[Sqad]

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.

[Scarlett]

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!