Hysterectomy after Thyroidectomy

[jls1409]

I had a hysterectomy 6 weeks ago (ovaries intact) and I had a thyroidectomy 2 years ago. I was just put on progesterone for night sweats. Does anyone know if it will effect my levothyroxine dosage?

[humanbean]

Sorry I can't actually be really helpful and can't answer your question, but there were quite a few good articles coming up when I searched for "progesterone hypothyroidism" and "does progesterone affect the thyroid".

The ThyroidAdvisor site is worth reading - it has some interesting articles. Unfortunately I get a security warning from my internet security software that its certificate is out-of-date as of the 18th Feb this year. I carried on and looked it up anyway and it is worth reading. Hopefully they will renew whatever has to be renewed very soon.

drhedberg.com/hormone-thyro...

Are you taking natural progesterone or prescribed synthetic progesterone. According to the above link synthetic progesterone is not a good idea :

"Synthetic progesterone known as Provera, Depo-Provera, etc. has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer by 800%. "

This statistic sounds alarming, but I have no idea what your risk of breast cancer would be without the progesterone. It might be almost nothing for all I know, so increasing almost nothing by 800% is still almost nothing. But if you have a significant risk of breast cancer you might want to avoid synthetic progesterone and only try the natural stuff. However, I'm pretty sure that most doctors prescribe only synthetic hormones so you might have to supply your own natural progesterone cream if you want to consider taking it.

One comment I read that might be of interest is that people might think they are suffering from estrogen dominance, when in fact their levels of estrogen are fine. Instead they are suffering from progesterone deficiency. I've also read that having too much progesterone is also to be avoided. Whatever you treat yourself with it would probably be wise to test your estrogen and progesterone every 6 months or so, depending on how you feel. Cream is not easy to dose right and overdose might be rather easy.

This research paper might be of interest :

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/232...

This site has some very useful articles - unfortunately it doesn't have a search function :

hormonerestoration.com/

but you can search it from your standard web search site e.g. Google or DuckDuckGo or any other web search site by using the following as your search criteria :

site:hormonerestoration.com progesterone

site:hormonerestoration.com estrogen

site:hormonerestoration.com Any other word you want to search for