Lisa's Question: 

I have recently started taking 50mg of progesterone and bi est cream 50.50 it's been 3 weeks. Experiencing hot flash at night and seeing very little improvement in my sleep. Does it really matter where we apply the bi est cream, I was told inner highs, I feel I absorb it better in the inner arm, Also could the dosage be too low, I cannot tolerate more than 50mg of progesterone. These are compounded in pharmacy.

Short Answer: 

We recommend that our patients apply their cream to the inner thigh. In some situations, the back of the knee is fine, but most often the inner thigh is the best place. We do not recommend applying the cream to the upper arm or forearm, as this can skew blood testing results.

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Dr. Maki: Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Progress Your Health Podcast. I’m Dr. Maki.

Dr. Davidson: And I’m Dr. Davidson

Dr. Maki: So I’m not sure if you can tell or not, but we actually have some new podcasting equipment. We upgraded our microphones, we got this piece of podcasting equipment for all the tech geeks out there. It’s called a Road Caster Pro. It makes the whole process and the production of the actual podcast very, very simple and easy so far, it’s in pretty, I know you don’t really get too excited about any of that kind of stuff, but certainly, certainly I like all the gear and everything.

Dr. Davidson: Well, I liked all the options and I certainly like the color two little buttons on it. They’re real pretty.

Dr. Maki: Yeah, it looks very sophisticate looks almost like a mini version of a real radio studio. So hopefully this sounds, our voices sound good. And, I know our last one, the sound is okay. We still have a little bit of echo in the room. We’re in the middle of a Coronavirus quarantine. So we’ve kind of a stuck in the house a little bit. And we’ve been kind of planning this, kind of this new launch of our podcast, not really a lot is gonna change but really it was the upgrading the equipment and pretty exciting nonetheless.

Dr. Davidson: And the cool new microphones.

Dr. Maki: Yeah, yeah. Microphones are for those that are interested is the Road Pod mic, specifically designed for podcasting. Again, for those of you that are not into microphones, you probably don’t care. But these are considered dynamic microphones, so they, and they’re designed specifically for podcasting. And they’re meant to make your voice sound good without picking up all the extra sounds in the room. Our dog is at our feet and in the past he’s been chewing on a bone and sometimes that noise, it get picked up. You’re hearing a strange noise in the background but now this one is only supposed to pick up our voices and cut down some of the echo and, for example, in the summertime if the air conditioning comes on, our car drives by or something, the microphone isn’t gonna pick up all that extraneous noise, so.

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