Hi
I'm 46 and in early peri. Major issues heavy bleeding. My first period now after D&C for polyps is bloody horrific. I'm now back on a 28 day cycle (and was last month) after two irregular cycles which may or may not have been caused by a) change of thyroid meds b) polyps c) peri or d) a combo of all of the above. So it's hard to say if I'm in that phase of things where periods are starting to change, or whether it was just one of those things and I'll stick to a 28 day cycle again.
can someone give me the layman's rundown on treatment for heavy periods. Was reading this:
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/periodtreatments.phpGiven my health nightmare (understatement of the century) Mirena does not appeal to me for many reasons, not least my GP is utterly rubbish and I want to be in control and able to adjust, stop or change what I'm doing on my own say so. I appreciate many women love Mirena, I doubt I would be one of them, so for a long list of reasons I ruled it out.
However, in the above link, I read this: Cyclical progestogen hormones. These are progestogen containing tablets which are taken for part of the month. They are particularly useful when you have occasionally missed periods and then go on to have a very heavy period. It means you will have periods regularly, once a month making life much less socially inconvenient. The progestogen can also help with flushing and sweating.
Can someone just explain what that means please? Would it also make them lighter? I appreciate blood tests are not always useful in peri, but from symptoms and bloods I've had drawn (both on day 12) it seems I still have plenty of E (or at least at certain points in my cycle, prof Studd's test put my estrogen on day 12 at 1,600).
From my own research (I appreciate the internet is a bottomless pit of opinion and quackery) it seems that women in early peri often start on prog only for a bit, then add in the E as they start getting low E symptoms? have I understood that correctly?
Ta