Hi KirstyM & welcome from me too.
It's a bit quiet on the forum at the moment but I expect you will get loads of replies & more welcomes once we get back to a normal working week.
I hope you don't mind but I have copied/pastied your post here, from the "HRT - Good or Bad" topic so that people will be able to help you with your question:
"I found this forum the other day while trying to find information about the HRT I am currently on, to make sense of what's going on with my body at the moment!! Any thoughts or shared experiences would be appreciated!
I started peri-menopause at 40 with irregular periods and stopped getting my periods when I was 42. I moved on to awful hot flushes, mood swings, disrupted sleep etc (hot flushes are not fun when you're in front of a class of 32 kids....) and waited a year before my doctor put me onto Kliovance. I have been on it now for 5 months and up until this past week have been extremely happy with more levelled moods, no hot flushes and sleeping like a baby!!! What changed? I now have my first period in a year and a half with heavy bleeding and awful cramps. I've also had incredibly sore and swollen breasts which changed the density of my breast tissue, resulting in an urgent mammogram and ultrasound. As my maternal grandmother died of breast cancer at 64, I have been having mammograms since I was 40. Small cysts were found but nothing to indicate any bigger problems.
My research on Kliovance tells me that spotting in the first 3-6 months is normal but I'm unsure about a period! Thank goodness my daughter has supplies in the house!!
Anyone else had any similar experiences?"
Kirsty