u201c eyes u201d refers to irritation such as burning or itching u201c shortness of breath u201d is defined as a patient 39 s perception of the inability to take a deep breath u201c headache u201d refers to pain in the head region u201c skin u201d is defined as itching burning or a rash on the skin u201c ears u201d refers to pain or pressure in the ears u201c back u201d u201c hips u201d u201c lower extremity u201d and u201c upper extremity u201d all refer to pain in those areas including arthritis type pain or pain from chronic or acute injury data has been gathered on the clinical response to dilute progesterone therapy for over 300 patients patients presenting for treatment ranged in age from 30 to 70 years old and were predominantly female see table 3 patients generally responded favorably in the areas of both allergy and pain symptoms in the area of allergy symptoms 66 87 of patients responded depending on the site of allergy symptoms see table 4 in the area of pain symptoms 72 92 of patients responded depending on site of pain symptoms see table 5 over half of the total patients in both groups responded with symptom relief in excess of 60 spirometry was performed on 22 patients with shortness of breath who were treated with dilute progesterone drops all 22 had improvement in spirometry with hormonal allergy treatment an example of the improvement is shown in fig2 which shows rate of air flow and lung volume in an individual patient pre and post treatment both the rate of air.