Description

This gel contains a hormone called progesterone. When the gel is inserted into your vagina, the progesterone is slowly released into your bloodstream throughout the day. Progesterone is used to give you extra progesterone in the treatment of infertility due to incorrect levels of progesterone during the menstrual cycle or when you are having an assisted fertility procedure. This is to help you get pregnant. You may also be asked to continue using Progesterone to support your new pregnancy.

Insert the contents of one applicator of Progesterone into your vagina each day, starting after your doctor tells you that you have ovulated, or on the 18 th -21 st day of your menstrual cycle. (The first day of your menstrual cycle is the day your period starts.) When used during in-vitro fertilisation, from the day of the embryo transfer, insert the contents of one applicator of Progesterone into your vagina each day, preferably in the morning. Once tests confirm that you are pregnant, you may be asked to keep using Progesterone to support your new pregnancy- for a total of 30 days. The applicator is designed in such a way that an exact amount of gel (1.125 g, containing 90 mg progesterone) is delivered. It is expected that a small amount of gel will be left in the applicator. This can be thrown away as you will have received all of the medicine that you need.

if you are allergic to the active substance or any of the other ingredients of this medicine. if you have unexplained vaginal bleeding. if you have porphyria (an inability to break down certain substances (porphyrins) in your blood that is passed down in families). if you have or think you might have cancer in your breasts or genital organs. if you have ever had a blood clot due to swollen veins (thrombophlebitis), a blocked blood vessel (thromboembolic disorder) or a stroke. if you are pregnant but your baby has died inside of you (missed abortion).

Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people): headache feeling very tired stomach or gut (gastro-intestinal) cramps breast tenderness

Progesterone is not normally used during pregnancy. However, if you used Progesterone to help you get pregnant, you may be asked to continue using it to support your new pregnancy. The use of Progesterone during breast-feeding is not recommended.

Caution should be taken if you have liver or kidney problems if you have heart problems or diabetes if you have asthma if you have epilepsy or often get migraines if you have ever had depression.

Progesterone is not for use in children or adolescents.

Drugs for Infertility