Should I stop taking Provera ?

Question

I am forty years old and have 12 year old twin girls. I started taking Provera to regulate my periods. I was having 2-3 periods a month. Provera has helped but the side affects are hard on me. Should I consider a Hysterectomy or continue to take Provera? I would appreciate any advice any of you have to offer. Thanks.

Answer 1

Oh my. YES, stop the Provera!!!
It's a synthetic hormone, and is not healthy.

Instead of a hysterectomy, please consider a natural progesterone cream. There are virtually NO side effects because it is exactly the same as the hormone your body used to produce, and this is what SHOULD have been recommended to you in the first place.

You still need your girly parts, even into menopause. There are horrible consequences with hysterectomies!


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Provera is a synthetic version of progesterone; its actions bear little resemblance to the natural hormone. Most physicians mistakenly think Provera is progesterone, so it¹s not surprising that the media doesn't understand, let alone emphasize, the difference either.

Comprehending the available information on HRT requires an extensive understanding of hormone physiology. Unfortunately, very few physicians and even fewer in the media can explain HRT or converse intelligently about the variety of viable and healthy alternatives to HRT already in existence.

Even more disturbing are many of the "solutions" or alternatives to HRT offered in popular magazines. No one has mentioned using the real ones to combat hormone deficiencies. Instead, recommendations include Prozac for depression, Lipitor for cholesterol, high blood pressure drugs to treat hot flashes and, of course, the recently patented (and profitable) designer estrogens and biphosphates to treat osteoporosis. The side effects of these are alarming.

Conventional medical doctors have known for decades that progesterone counters the negative effects that excessive estrogens can cause throughout a woman's system. With consistent use of inappropriate hormones like Provera, however, this knowledge dwindled to the myth that progesterone only protects the uterus and is therefore unnecessary if a woman has had a hysterectomy. The entire foundation of HRT has been faulty from the beginning because of misinformation like this.

It's not the least bit surprising that using mismatched and artificial hormones has delivered less than optimal results. What is surprising is that it has taken medicine this long to figure that out. Almost everyone intuitively understands that using diesel truck parts in a finely tuned sports car would hamper performance, if not stop it altogether. Yet, we're repeatedly given the equivalent of diesel parts for our finely tuned human bodies.

Patent laws in this country favor the creation of synthetic artificial chemicals to the exclusion of anything natural. Since anything that occurs in nature cannot be patented, it will never be astronomically profitable. This simple fact has affected medical education and practice since its inception.

It is in the drug company's interest to convince medical doctors and the public that natural herbal remedies and bioidentical hormones are either useless or extremely dangerous and uncontrolled. Never mind hundreds, and in many cases thousands, of years of safe and effective herbal use by humans. As for the hormones, I¹ll put my money on three million years of human evolution over 50 years of questionable pharmaceutical research.

Answer 2

I wouldn't lunge right for the hysterectomy as the first choice... it's still fairly major surgery. But if Provera is giving you problems, then by all means call up your doctor and have a chat.

You can try going on one of the birth control pills... Provera contains a pretty high dose of progesterone (5-10 milligrams/day vs 0.18 milligrams/day for Ortho-tri-cyclen), and you might have better luck with a lower dosage. Seasonale lets you cut down your pills to every 3 months, Yaz lets you have only a 3-day period... there's lotsa choices. Or, since you're done with having kids, maybe endometrial ablation might be a good option - it destroys the uterine lining, stopping your bleeding, but is less invasive than a hysterectomy.

There's no good reason you should have to suffer.

Answer 3

Any kind of Provera is BAD!! I took it in shot for a little over two years. High doses of it causes bone loss. I am 27 years old and now have osteoporosis. It is a VERY BAD drug. The shots come with a black box warning now and a major law suit is going on.

Answer 4

When does the bleeding stop after you quit taking this drug? I only took one month dose of 12 pills and did not want to take it any longer.......but am bleeding bad. I am 63 and have high blood pressure, arthritis, thyroid problem....I do not need this pill.

Answer 5

I would definately try other birth control types first. Different types have vastly different side effects. Even different brands of pills have varying side effects, and the effects even differ for different people. I would talk to your doctor about it, he/she can have you try something new that might work better for your own specific body chemistry.