Is it important to keep a chart?

This is entirely up to you. We suggest that you do keep your own chart to better understand how your body functions and to tune into its needs. Charts help you become aware of the day to day changes in your body. They help you interpret symptoms that may be relevant to your hormonal balance and general wellbeing.

Symptom relief is an important barometer in your hormonal well-being, and acts as a guide to using the least amount of progesterone required to maintain balance.

When you first begin natural progesterone therapy, it’s always advisable to go through the list of estrogen dominant symptoms and mark off what applies to you and date it. Add to this list anything that is unusual or is idiosyncratic to your hormonal profile.

Don?t, whatever you do, judge what you put down believing it to be totally irrelevant. Write it down anyway because it’s guaranteed somewhere along the track your ‘peculiar’ symptom may actually correlate with other women’s stories of hormonal imbalance.

Women become so conditioned to discounting themselves and undermining their problems, especially if they have been long-standing.

Make no mistake, you are not alone in this struggle with this new emerging condition - estrogen dominance. Women who approach our Network seeking help are invariably surprised to learn that their constellation of symptoms have absolute relevance within the context of determining and balancing estrogen dominance.

Comments like “I can relate to that” or “the same thing happens to me” tells us that women out there continue to suffer in silence, year in, year out, unable to compare and validate their experiences with other women.

The Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com website is essentially about empowering women so each can, in time, resurrect herself from the ‘hormonal’ abyss she finds herself. And in order to do this, she needs to get in tune with her own hormonal persona so to speak.

For your convenience we have listed all these aspects of your overall health in sections. Be aware of them. You may find your own amongst these to include in your charts. These questions below make you aware of your own body, particularly before using progesterone, and how you are responding once you’ve started using progesterone.

This is an on-going journey, and things will change in your body, over months and over years.