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Luteal phase intense cramping pain
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Let me join the others in saying THANK YOU for your posts! I have also dealt with the same pain with same timing for 10+ years and have been dismissed by many doctors with a shrug. I can't believe I've found this thread with others with similar experiences.
I am reading your comments to my husband (a veterinarian) and cannot wait to try mifepristone. We both have decent repro knowledge so were wondering if taking the low dose mifepristone every 5 days is necessary or would 2 doses right around ovulation (maybe right before ovulation and then 5 days later?) be sufficient to prevent the progesterone from the CL to have this negative affect? (If an allergy is in fact my issue as well).
It seems you've done a ton of research so would love to hear if the 5mg is still working and timing details.
Again, thanks so much for your willingness to chat with others about what you've found!
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Hi! I am so sorry you are going through this and I am very happy to help! I had actually written out a long reply and then it got deleted so I will make this one more brief but feel free to ask more questions.
I basically never tried doing it intermittently. I thought it was going to suppress ovulation so I was taking it throughout the month. That said, I did multiple months of it at once every 7 days and that never seemed to work fully so I increased it to once every 5 days. Thats not to say that if you tried a higher dose (say 100 mg instead of 50 mg) like twice a month that might also work but I am not sure. My advice would be to perhaps first try out what I am doing to see if that works for you and then you could titrate it down? But I dunno I am the only person I know who is doing this so and N of 1 doesn't really help. Ultimately take a lot of notes about what is going on and be advised it might take like 2 months to become fully effective. If you notice it getting better even a little bit I would suggest sticking to it! Also I tracked my ovulation at the same time with this urine test tracker device you can load onto your phone (meant for people trying to get pregnant) so I knew it was working because I knew I was in my luteal phase with higher progesterone not getting cramps whereas before taking it I would get it every day of the luteal phase.
Good luck and keep me posted!