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[Turkish delight]

Wow,

I've been taking 200mg Utro vaginal for the first time in 7 months on hrt and it's turned me into a psycho. I was taking 100mg vaginally and had no issues. I self-imposed this regime as I increased my O gel to 2 pumps a month and a half ago, so thought I'd better adhere to the Nice guidelines.

I've only managed 10 days girls, bcz I can feel I'm literally losing my mind. I have never suffered from any form of depression, so this
hormone-driven version has knocked me sideways, and is truely kickin my butt.

I've gone through a symphony of different crying modes during the 10 days, from day 2 staring into space while tears stream down my face, and another day sobbing in the streets while on a lovely sunny Sunday walk. I've had brain fog where I can't even string a sentence together, drowsiness, mega night sweats, headaches and visual disturbance aura type headaches like silent migraines.

I'm super stressed though not normally, and since Saturday I've been obsessing about my neighbour who insists on allowing his guests to park in my marked allocated bay. Ok I'm not using the 2nd bay but that's bcz I choose to be a one-car family for environmental reasons, unlike them who have 3 vehicles when there are only 2 of them. It's the lack of respect and feeling of being taken advantage of plus the feeling of being powerless to stop them that's driving me crazy. Last night was the last time I'm ever taking 200mg utro vaginally for fear that I'm becoming a doctor jackal and Mrs hide character.

Feel free to have you own Utro induced rants, and please if you have any suggestions on what regime I should adopt I'd really really appreciate the help and feedback. And if you have any input on how to deal with neighbours that don't give a sh!t about how their actions impact others, I'd love to hear them too. 

TD

[pants46]

No advice on the utro I'm afraid.
But I'm queen of the parking wars and champion of bin gate 
Are your 2 allocated parking spaces next to each other ? If they are ... park down the middle of the pair of them.
If anyone asks, you can say it is easier for you to get in and out of the car, without bumping the doors against other vehicles 
When I'm good, I'm good ... but when I'm bad, I'm very, very bad 

[Turkish delight]

LOL BRILLIANT!

Sadly they're not 

The one we use is at the front nearest to the front door, the other is around the side of the house, which is the one they keep helping themselves to.

I've tried the polite soft approach and the angry one when they had a lorry the size of a double-deckers bus park in my bay unloading hardcore and shingle, while their bays are meters away and vacant with the same access as mine.  They actually have room for 5 cars themselves but still used mine if they have any excuse to. The only thing we can do is park in it after work, unless you have another cunning plan tehe?!

TD

[Sgtvhilts]

Ohh yes,
Good old utrogestan. For me it has been the worst one i've Tried. Some love it though.
Sent me psycho as well , after only 5 days of 100 .
Never, ever, ever again.
I am happily settled on dydrogestone.
That is the one and only progesterone that doesn't have any side effect for me.

[Tracey E]

Estrodrial was the cause of my aura migranes not the progesterone component. I also had an increasing amount of night sweats regardless of the amount of Estrogel I applied. I am beginning to wonder why I suffered for so long. But like many folk I always thought it was the progesterone at fault and kept changing to different versions, made no difference. One of the worst side effects of tge Estrogen was the continual burping and bloating along with the palps.

[Turkish delight]

Thanks girls, your replies give me some food for thought.


I'm still feeling like a bit of a psycho, the best way to describe it is pms on steroids x 100!
I should have a bleed hopefully this time to clear all the cobwebs in my womb and my brains.

Wonder how many are taking 2 pumps O gel and 100mg utro vaginally for 12 days, with good results. That's what I think I'll do, and then try and get to a menop clinic.

This is such a minefield, I feel at war with my own body most days 

TD

[Ladybt28]

Hi Turkish - it was Provera not Utro which turned me into the person you describe.  Thing is what works for one won't work for another.  Have you tried Provera, some who have had problems with Utrogestan like it better.

There are quite a few on 2 pumps gel and utro 100mg vaginally x  12 days but you are supposed to do it under supervision and get a womb scan.

First time I started with Utro only managed 8 days, then 2nd month 9 and then third 10 after that I can manage 200mg x12 days, but I have to say it wasn't like being a psycho on Provera.  Maybe try and change it.  You know yourself and this doesn't sound good.

[Hurdity]

Hi Turkish Delight

I am using 100 mg Utro vaginally for 12 days when I have a shorter cycle eg 5 - 5.5 weeks. On the longer ones I use the full monty.... my doc (gynae specialist GP) is happy for me to do whatever I want - she was happy with a two monthly cycle (but I don't usually leave it quite that long) and she always sends me for a scan if I get any untoward bleeding at wrong time or spotting. Having been on the same HRT for many years now, I (and she) know(s) how my uterus behaves on HRT and utro, so this helps me to know what is OK, by now. Always good to start with the licensed dose before agreeing an individualised regime with your doc if possible . I'm on 62.5 mcg patch - but maybe a bit nearer 67 - can never work out how much to snip off with these new patches. I made a template for the Estradot! Good luck and hope you feel less like a psycho soon!

Hurdity x

[Turkish delight]

Thanks again girls,

I am starting to feel back to my normal rational self this evening, with all your help 

Your replies are helping me realise that I need to go to have some professional input, maybe a scan too. My gp is good but not with meno stuff.

Do the NHS offer the endo scans I wonder? Hell, I don't even know if I need one I'm that confused. I say I may not need one yet bcz I stayed on a low dose O gel of 1 pump every other day to begin with, after 2 months I increased that to 1 pump daily for another couple of months, then the last 2 or so months been on 2 pumps daily which is where I would like to keep it. All the while I was on 100mg x 14 utro vaginally and only had one heavy bleed in that whole time.

I have an apmnt booked to talk about this to a female gp this time, but she seems in the prime of her life and a new gp so not sure if she will have a better grip or not. Anyway lets see.

TD