Hi tangobunny - on HRT, with most preparations you take the same dose of oestrogen continuously ie all the time, as the dose doesn't give oestrogen levels anywhere near as high as they would be at ovulation during a natural cycle. It is the progesterone you take for part of the cycle, if you are still having periods and not been 12 months without them.
As you will have seen from the HRT preparations, if you chose utrogestan you would take it for 12 days of each 28 day cycle.
Re Evorel conti - I don't know how long you were on it, but the side effects would have been most likely due to the synthetic progestogen - norethisterone - which you were absorbing all the time. This is notorious for giving some women headaches - it did me.
I wouldn't recommend Premarin personally, although some women are fine on it, while others have an extreme negative reaction from what I've read on here.This is a mixture of oestrogens made from the urine of pregnant horses, and many of the oestrogens are not the same as ours. If you want a low dose tablet oestrogen then you would be better off with pure estradiol as found in Elleste.
If you are prone to headaches or migraines then a transdermal method would be less likely to coause these sdie effects - and again there are several types to choose from.
Hope this helps
Hurdity x
