hi Taz
I've only used it vaginally for a few days in my last cycle and it was much better - it was hard to say whether it made me feel sedated as I was still pretty zonked from taking it orally, and I don't know whether it would have had a cumulative effect. I do know I felt much, much better, so much so in fact that I wondered whether I was absorbing any of it at all, and so I went to check with my GP. And this is why I stopped taking it vaginally! I hadn't seen my menopause specialist yet and the GP hadn't prescribed utrogestan before and didn't know the drug at all. She was completely bemused that I would be taking it vaginally - she said she could see nothing in the drugs information to say it should be taken vaginally and didn't see how the same drug could be absorbed via both routes. In other words, she thought I was doing something really bonkers, equivalent to sticking aspirin up my vagina! She also thought I might be tolerating it better because it wasn't being absorbed at all. I was of course completely mortified and started taking it orally again. Luckily the menopause specialist i saw later reassured me it was absolutely fine and sensible to take it vaginally - it's just not yet licensed to be used that way in the UK. It's likely that, as Hurdity says, you get a slightly bigger dose if you take it vaginally but it isn't something that (she thought) made enough of a difference to take into account.
So: I have to take a bigger dose in my next cycle (200mg instead of 100mg) but feel a bit better knowing that there's another route that might help. I will keep you posted...
All best wishes
Susie
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Topic: Query about Utrogestan 100mg and managing hunger and sedation (Read 14776 times)