What are herbal alternatives to oestrogen pessaries?

Anyone switch from progesterone jabs to pessaries. Doc has switched me at 7 weeks?

• Switched from 100m jabs to 2 pessaries per day. Is this dangerous? Today is first day of no morning jab and feel some slight cramping. Have inserted the morning pessary and it is really gunky and more seems to come out than stay in or get absorbed? Anyone had any experience of a) switching from jab to pessary and b) messy pessaries and how to handle them.

• Answer:

  I was on progesterone pessaries from week 4 to week 12. Yes, they are very messy. I spoke to my doc about it because I was worried all of the progesterone was coming straight back out! He told me not to worry, the progesterone is absorbed within about 15 minutes. Thereafter it's just the pessary itself which globs out. It's quite gross, but using a panty liner or very light pad usually helps. The cramping you are feeling is probably normal pregnancy cramping that we all feel. Pessaries are actually a more efficient way of introducing progesterone into the uterus, so don't stress out about changing from jabs to pessaries. Congratulations on your pregnancy.