Hi Tara and welcome.
We are all different, but my experience with PM cream is that it is a complete waste of time and money. You are much better off with the simple capsules. Isabelle has found a paper which suggests that PM needs to be processed by the liver to be effective, so a topical application is going to be much less effective.
To all who are taking, or considering taking, progesterone, there have been a lot of threads on this and the jury is somewhat still out on it, afaik.
However, I do believe that until and unless you actually have a reasonable amount of actual breast tissue growth, then Progesterone is pointless at best, and there is some belief that it is actually detrimental to breast development. ( Not dangerous, per se, it just counteracts the effects of oestrogen and you get a stalemate). Look at a graph of normal female hormone production levels through the month and you'll see that the oestrogen peak is subsiding before the progesterone peak occurs.
At normal female puberty, Progesterone is only first produced towards the end of breast development and acts to fill out the typical conical teenage breast... and as for us guys wanting boobs...it stands to reason that you can't fill out something that isn't there! You got to grow 'em before you can fill 'em!!
We are all different, but my experience with PM cream is that it is a complete waste of time and money. You are much better off with the simple capsules. Isabelle has found a paper which suggests that PM needs to be processed by the liver to be effective, so a topical application is going to be much less effective.
To all who are taking, or considering taking, progesterone, there have been a lot of threads on this and the jury is somewhat still out on it, afaik.
However, I do believe that until and unless you actually have a reasonable amount of actual breast tissue growth, then Progesterone is pointless at best, and there is some belief that it is actually detrimental to breast development. ( Not dangerous, per se, it just counteracts the effects of oestrogen and you get a stalemate). Look at a graph of normal female hormone production levels through the month and you'll see that the oestrogen peak is subsiding before the progesterone peak occurs.
At normal female puberty, Progesterone is only first produced towards the end of breast development and acts to fill out the typical conical teenage breast... and as for us guys wanting boobs...it stands to reason that you can't fill out something that isn't there! You got to grow 'em before you can fill 'em!!