Hi, not been here for a long time, everything has been hunky dory since I started taking HRT 1.5 years ago!! Hope everyone is well!
Anyway, I visited my doc recently because I was feeling dizzy, tired, a bit sick and generally out of sorts. I suspected a low-level virus, which the doc confirmed (inner ear).
However, before she took my blood pressure/pulse/looked in my ears etc she asked me what contraception I was using. I told her none. She said that I shouldn't assume I definitely wouldn't fall pregnant. I did tell her that I would be over the moon if I fell pregnant (I'm 6 months married to a man of 26, we would have loved a child together!). I asked her if there would be any danger to a foetus from taking HRT and she said no. She recommended I regularly take pregnancy tests and I can see the sense in that - I'd want to know asap if it were to happen.
Now, I'm not in any way expecting to accidentally fall pregnant - I do know it's extremely unlikely, and also that it's only one of many hurdles to having a healthy baby at the age of 50.
It's just that I can't find ANY information online about women getting pregnant whilst taking HRT, though I do know it occasionally happens. Does anyone here know anything about it? For example, considering my 'periods' aren't really periods at all but triggered by the progestogen part of the HRT, would they stop if a pregnancy occurred?
I wonder why there is so little info on this! The only thing I can really find is a couple of old newspaper articles about women it has happened to. Don't worry, I really don't think it's going to happen, I'm just curious!