Compound | Doses for specific uses (mg/day)[a] | |||||||
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OID | TFD | MDT | BCPD | ECD | ||||
Cycle | Daily | |||||||
Allylestrenol | 25 | 150–300 | – | 30 | – | – | ||
Bromoketoprogesterone[b] | – | – | 100–160 | – | – | – | ||
Chlormadinone acetate | 1.5–4.0 | 20–30 | 3–10 | 1.0–4.0 | 2.0 | 5–10 | ||
Cyproterone acetate | 1.0 | 20–30 | 1.0–3.0 | 1.0–4.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | ||
Desogestrel | 0.06 | 0.4–2.5 | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.15 | ||
Dienogest | 1.0 | 6.0–6.3 | – | – | 2.0–3.0 | 2.0 | ||
Drospirenone | 2.0 | 40–80 | – | – | 3.0 | 2.0 | ||
Dydrogesterone | >30 | 140–200 | 10–20 | 20 | – | 10 | ||
Ethisterone | – | 200–700 | 50–250 | – | – | – | ||
Etynodiol diacetate | 2.0 | 10–15 | – | 1.0 | 1.0–20 | – | ||
Gestodene | 0.03 | 2.0–3.0 | – | – | 0.06–0.075 | 0.20 | ||
Hydroxyprogest. acetate | – | – | 70–125 | – | 100 | – | ||
Hydroxyprogest. caproate | – | 700–1400 | 70 | – | – | – | ||
Levonorgestrel | 0.05 | 2.5–6.0 | 0.15–0.25 | 0.5 | 0.1–0.15 | 0.075 | ||
Lynestrenol | 2.0 | 35–150 | 5.0 | 10 | – | – | ||
Medrogestone | 10 | 50–100 | 10 | 15 | – | 10 | ||
Medroxyprogest. acetate | 10 | 40–120 | 2.5–10 | 20–30 | 5–10 | 5.0 | ||
Megestrol acetate | >5[c] | 30–70 | – | 5–10 | 1.0–5.0 | 5.0 | ||
Nomegestrol acetate | 1.25–5.0 | 100 | 5.0 | – | 2.5 | 3.75–5.0 | ||
Norethandrolone[b] | – | – | 10 | – | – | – | ||
Norethisterone | 0.4–0.5 | 100–150 | 5–10 | 10–15 | 0.5 | 0.7–1.0 | ||
Norethisterone acetate | 0.5 | 30–60 | 2.5–5.0 | 7.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | ||
Norethist. acetate (micron.) | – | 12–14 | – | – | – | – | ||
Noretynodrel | 4.0 | 150–200 | – | 14 | 2.5–10 | – | ||
Norgestimate | 0.2 | 2.0–10 | – | – | 0.25 | 0.09 | ||
Norgestrel | 0.1 | 12 | – | 0.5–2.0 | – | – | ||
Normethandrone | – | 150 | 10 | – | – | – | ||
Progesterone (non-micron.) | >300[d] | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Progesterone (micronized) | – | 4200 | 200–300 | 1000 | – | 200 | ||
Promegestone | 0.5 | 10 | 0.5 | – | – | 0.5 | ||
Tibolone | 2.5 | – | – | – | – | – | ||
Trengestone | – | 50–70 | – | – | – | – | ||
Trimegestone | 0.5 | – | 0.25–0.5 | – | – | 0.0625–0.5 | ||
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Zur Transformation des Endometriums benotigten sie 200-400 mg [ethisterone] pro Cyclus und postulierten eine etwa sechsfach schwachere Wirkung gegenuber dem Progesteron i.m. appliziert.
Table 1 Publications on ovulation inhibition doses of progestins: Progestin: Progesterone. Reference: Pincus (1956). Method: Urinary Pdiol. Daily dose (mg): 300.000. Total number of cycles in all subjects: 61. Total number of ovulation in all subjects: 30. % of ovulation in all subjects: 49.
The anti-ovulatory properties of megestrol acetate 5 mg. plus Mestranol 0.1 mg. were demonstrated in thirty-five women by direct inspection of the ovaries. When given alone, megestrol acetate 5 mg. or Mestranol 0.1 mg. did not prevent ovulation in all cases.
At 0.25 mg/day MA has no apparent effect on the histology of the endometrium and is not effective as a contraceptive (53). However, at doses of 0.35 and 0.5 mg/day the drug is an effective contraceptive (10). At the 0.5 mg/day dose MA does not inhibit ovulation but does reduce sperm motility in post-coital tests (68).
Early studies on its use as an oral contraceptive showed that, at 300 mg/day (5th to 25th day of the menstrual cycle), progesterone was effective in preventing ovulation through four cycles (263). The related effect of larger doses of progesterone on gonadotropin excretion also has been investigated. Rothchild (264) found that continuous or intermittent intravenously administered progesterone (100-400 mg/day) for 10 days depressed the total amount of gonadotropin excreted into the urine. However, Paulsen et al. (265) found that oral progesterone at 1000 mg/day for 87 days did not have a significant effect on urinary gonadotropin excretion. The efficacy of progesterone as an oral contraceptive was never fully tested, because synthetic progestational agents, which were orally effective, were available.
Table 1: Effects of oral progesterone on three indexes of ovulation: Medication: Progesterone. Number: 69. Mean cycle length: 25.5 ± 0.59. Per cent positive for ovulation by: Basal temperature: 27. Endometrial biopsy: 18. Vaginal smear: 6. [...] we settled on 300 mg. per day [oral progersterone] as a significantly effective [ovulation inhibition] dosage, and this was administered from the fifth day through the twenty-fourth day of the menstrual cycle. [...] We observed each of 33 volunteer subjects during a control, nontreatment cycle and for one to three successive cycles of medication immediately following the control cycle. As indexes of the occurrence of ovulation, daily basal temperatures and vaginal smears were taken, and at the nineteenth to twenty-second day of the cycle an endometrial biopsy. [...] Although we thus demonstrated the ovulation-inhibiting activity of progesterone in normally ovulating women, oral progesterone medication had two disadvantages: ( l) the large daily dosage ( 300 mg.) which presumably would have to be even larger if one sought 100 per cent inhibition1 [...]