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What is prometrium?

What is prometrium

Prometrium is a drug prescribed to postmenopausal women to prevent the abnormal build up of the lining of the uterus. It is also sometimes prescribed to re-start menstruation that has stopped abnormally. However, prometrium and pregnancy are a different ball of wax altogether.

Prometrium, a progesterone supplement, is sometimes prescribed during the first trimester of pregnancy in women who have had a history of miscarriages caused by low progesterone levels. The addition of prometruim during pregnancy helps ensure that the women will carry the fetus to full-term. It works by helping ensure that a placenta is fully formed thus providing the necessary lifeline for the developing fetus.

For those women who have a history of miscarriages prometrium and pregnancy usually go together. The attending physician will usually prescribe the hormone replacement drug in either an oral form or in vaginal suppository. Women who take the oral form sometimes report nausea and/or dizziness as a side effect. Those taking it as a suppository do not seem affected in the same manner. However, there appear to be few, if any, complications for the unborn baby.

Some women taking prometrium during pregnancy worry that they might miss a miscarriage. In other words, prometrium might cause a naturally occurring miscarriage to not take place as in the case of a malformed fetus. In this situation, prometrium will not prevent the miscarriage. Prometrium works only to "hold" the pregnancy if it is a healthy, normal pregnancy to start with. Nature will take its course if the fetus is not viable and prometrium will not interfere with this process.



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