The provera is progestrone. The BCPs are synthetic as well as the provera. But the provera puts a whole lot more progesterone into your body than the cream does. I also took Yasmin for a month and saw no changes. Not until I switched to the 1/35 and added the 2.5mg Provera a day.

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