Preparations containing progesterone for hormone therapy are used both in the form of tablets and in solution. The main indications in which hormone tablets are used Progesterone is:
- endocrine infertility;
- amenorrhea;
- oligomenorrhoea ;
- anovulatory metrorrhagia;
- fibrocystic mastopathy;
- premenstrual syndrome;
- endometriosis;
- Substitution treatment after removal of the ovaries.
Tablets of progesterone are used in pregnancy, when there is a threat of miscarriage due to poor work of the yellow body of pregnancy or its absence.
Progesterone tablets - instructions for use
Tablets containing progesterone have a number of contraindications. First of all, it is an individual drug intolerance and breastfeeding. Some analogues of progesterone can not be used with blood clotting, liver and kidney disorders, cardiovascular system disorders, diabetes mellitus, epilepsy, depression, bronchial asthma, arterial hypertension, lipid metabolism disorders, migraine, hormone-dependent tumors of the female genital organs and mammary glands , uterine bleeding unclear etiology, incomplete miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, in the second and especially in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Side effects from the use of drugs with progesterone are headaches and dizziness, discomfort in the mammary glands, drowsiness and depression, swelling of the lower extremities, uterine bleeding, liver disorders, local and general allergic reactions, decreased sexual desire, thrombosis and thromboembolism, hirsutism , an increase in weight.
Which tablets contain progesterone?
Various pharmaceutical companies produce tablets containing progesterone, under such trade names,
So, for example, Utrozestan, as closer to natural progesterone, increases the tendency to thrombosis, and Dufaston, as a synthetic drug, has no negative effect on blood coagulation and liver function. Therefore, more often to increase the level of progesterone in the blood used tablets that contain non-natural progesterone, and its synthetic analogues.