Why can’t I tolerate progesterone?
I’m a trans woman who has been on hrt 14 years since I was a teenager. and every time I start micronized progesterone, my psoriasis seems to flare and my mood gets noticeably worse. I’ve stopped and restarted it multiple times over the years and the same thing keeps happening. Oddly though I seemed to tolerate it fine 10 years ago.
I restarted taking it to help with my dead libido and see if I could get some more breast growth, it helps my libido for maybe 4 days then just stops. Sublingual estrogen also caused me to get flares with my skin condition which is why I switched to injections and thought maybe readding progesterone now I’m on injections might be different this time but no.
It’s frustrating because I’d like to be able to take progesterone but it doesn’t seem to agree with me.
anyone else seen progesterone trigger psoriasis flares before? what is confusing is there’s a lot of research that progesterone can actually help psoriasis but I seem to get the complete opposite.