Kritsty - Some bleeding in the first few weeks or even months, on any conti HRt, is quite normal. The patches are medium dose generally and if your oestrogen levels were low at the start then to hit the body, quite hard, with hormones, it will inevitably react accordingly. The last time I started HRT, after a 15 month break from HRT, the gynaecologist told me to start low and slowly build - I was using Oestrogel with separate progesterone on a sequential basis so expected a monthly bleed as I'd found in the past that conti regimes didn't suit me.
The best non bleed HRT regime for me, post meno, was the Mirena with Oestrogel alongside.
It's all about trial and error with HRT but beware of chopping and changing too quickly and too often, as this can confuse the body and not achieve anything.. DG x
