It's interesting what you say about progesterone. I finally found a gynocologist who wants to work with me on my PCOS.
My internist who recommended that I see a gynocologist had prescribed hormone tests and an ultrasound and said that I did
not have PCOS but, because of my cysts, I probably needed a hysterectomy. Go figure. She put me on standard birth control pills to stop the 1 1/2-year period (bleeding) I had finally gone to see her about (I have a high reluctance to see doctors).
The birth control pills made the pain and bleeding worse!
When I got in to see the gynocologist, she looked at my hormone levels and noted that I had high estrogen and low progesterone. She also said the I
do have PCOS. The internist was wrong. The pill I was prescribed was high in estrogen and low in progesterone. Evidently that is the normal type of pill prescribed for birth control.
My gynocologist put me on a pill that is just the opposite (high progesterone and low estrogen) and my symptoms cleared up within 3 days. I have been realtively pain free (except for the 4 days of period I had on the pill) since then.
All this to say that for me, my experience adds weight to what you said about supplementing natural progesterone.
I know that LCing is also helping, but with the pill I am taking, I do not know which to give more credit to.
;-Deb