Hi
IM new to this forum but I have been reading your comments and it is a great resource, thanks to everyone who has contributed!
I am perimenopausal and do a very physical job so I wanted to go on HRT as I was suffering fatigue, headaches and lack of strength in my hands etc. Oh and zero sex drive. I had to go private as my = NHS doctor was unhelpful to say the learo. I went to the John Studd clinic and was proscribed 3 squirts of oestrogen and 10 days of utrogestan 200 and testosterone for the sex drive. The oestrogel is working great for me I feel great on it, i.e. not menopausal, strength back, no headaches, cleared my brain fog, testosterone also great although I don't take it every day as I forget, but the utrogestan made me want to murder someone. I then went on 100 mg tablets, still the same intact worse every month. angry, fighting with everyone and really high blood pressure, whereas my blood pressure is usually very low. I cannot afford to go back to the clinic so after reading this forum I tried it vaginally which made me depressed, angry and unable to operate although slightly less murderous. I then went back to a different NHS doctor who proscribed me Femostan tablets. I have tried the progesterone bit of it but it makes me fatigued to the point of unable to get out of bed, depressed, nauseas. I was reluctant to cross over to it wholeheartedly because I feel so great on the oestrogel. I'm out of ideas. Im considering the marina coil but worried that if I am intolerant to progesterone it will makes matters worse. Im wondering if I can just stay on the oestrogel. I had regular periods before I started HRT so Im wondering if I maybe lower it to 2 pumps a day or taking it for just 2 weeks out of the month, would myown naturally occurring progesterone be enough to produce a period. Is that crazy or has anyone tried it? Do we need to bleed every month anyway? Would every 3 /4 months do? Would appreciate your thoughts.