Hello all. Thank you for allowing me to join the forum.
I have a question. I used to use Evorel Conti but it was stopped about 18 months ago as I was having "periods"; sometimes really heavy, I had a scan at that time and it showed a lot of adenomyosis. The endometrial thickness was <4mm three months after stopping the patch.
Fast forward to December, and I go back on it on the advice of the rheumatologist to try to control joint pain and a few other things such as hot flushes etc. I have seven happy months and the periods come back one month after starting the HRT. They are periods too, they're monthly, not irregular and not variable in amount. I get referred to the gynaecologist. Gynaecologist has told GP to stop the Evorel for three months and he'll do a scan then. But my question is that a) is it not normal to have this problem (the periods are actually starting to get lighter each month, the one just finished was really light and needed one tampon and a couple of liners) and I'm seven months in.
b)Without this patch my fibromyalgia and arthritis are 10x worse, I get awful hot flushes and sweats and am generally miserable and in a lot of pain.
c) I don't see why the HRT has been stopped, we have been through all this before. Every time I try Conti stuff I get periods again. I am 58 and in the gap between coming off it last time and starting this time, I had not a trace of bleeding.
I have no clue as to when my periods actually stopped naturally because as I say, Conti seems to create regular menses!!
I'm really upset about this decision, I have a lot of awful other things going on in my life at the moment and it is going to be a hard one to take. I seriously don't know how I am going to cope with this cold turkey method, and I know from before it will increase my pain and fibro symptoms.
Help!!!