Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

media

Author Topic: Why 25 days Utrogestan?  (Read 1448 times)

linz57

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 532
Why 25 days Utrogestan?
« on: November 08, 2016, 06:48:39 PM »

Sorry if this has already been covered but can someone please tell me why I need to take 100mg Utrogestan for 25 out of 28 days. If I'm on a Conti regime why do I need a three day break?
Logged

Hurdity

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 13941
Re: Why 25 days Utrogestan?
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2016, 07:03:31 PM »

This is the traditional licensed dose and probably designed so that if there is any chance of the lining building up - then it can be shed during that 3 days, rather than as intermittent spotting which does sometimes happen with utrogestan - especially with oral use. In practice many women do take it continuously but because it is dose dependent - it may well not work so well with medium/high doses of oestrogen.

Hurdity x
Logged

linz57

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 532
Re: Why 25 days Utrogestan?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2016, 07:08:59 PM »

Ah, I see, thank you for explaining Hurdity :)
Logged