Hi Mintea
I was just reading your posts with interest as I too had trouble with hrt.
I had various bad side effects and it also caused fibroid growth.
I saw two menopause specialists privately, but found in hindsight, my GP gave me the best advice.
May I ask the main reasons that you want to take hormones?
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Hi Jari
I've just seen your post so sorry for late reply. I wanted to try systemic hrt for a variety of reasons:
I have VA and although used vagifem, ovestin and other products for a couple of years I was hoping it would improve things more. Unable to have sex for several years, complete disappearance of sex drive (no problems before menopause), pain, urinary frequency etc. I also had jointpains,anxiety/depression that I thought might be hormone related. I also have a family history of osteoporosis so thought it would be wise to take it as my mother was badly affected by this and broke hips and thigh bones - it really badly affected the quality of the last years of her life. My sister has it as well.
As well as the above reasons the research shows that hrt has many beneficial effects for women if taken within 10 years of menopause although the nearer to the menopause the better. So it seemed silly not to try it. I just wish it had been a lot more straightforward. I am up to my 12th week now and just had a second episode of heavy bleeding. I had felt some benefits from the hrt particularly less joint pains and less anxiety but the heavy bleeding is awful. It seems so difficult to get specialist advice. I have very reluctantly stopped taking the hrt now for a few days so I can decide what to do as I really dont want the heavy bleeding every few weeks- I wouldnt be bothered by a light period.
The tvs I had recently showed multiple fibroids so perhaps this is causing the bleeding. I really dont want to have a hysterectomy or any other procedure to deal with them so if they are the cause will probably stay off it.
Sorry for the long post
Mintea x