Dear All,
I am new to this wonderful forum (have learnt a lot already!) so I hope you don't mind me creating a thread as a 44-year-old, menopausal woman on HRT since September 2016 (Elleste 2mg solo and Utrogestan for 14 days). I understand it may be too personal but I have two questions which others may recognise:
1) I was in the sun a couple of weekends ago with my legs one of which was immobile as I have gone through foot surgery two weeks ago (not fun!) and two days later my immobile leg got covered in tiny red liver spots. I was wondering whether HRT is the culprit for these spots. I have read on the forum oestrogen stimulates melanin production.
2) I have read others on the forum have this and may be down to being peri-menopausal rather than fully menopausal and therefore having one's own hormones circulating around, but I have very different bleeds every month: some months I have very heavy bright bleeds (only lasting a 2/3 days) and some other it's all very dark, brown/black. Apologies for too much information. But is this normal? My next appointment with my gynaecologist is in December so I have no way of finding out until then.
Many thanks for anyone who can recognise any of this and has any views.