Hi anartistatheart
Good to hear your persistence has paid off, but if you are in UK then with reference to the title of your thread they have still got it wrong, in that the pharmacist and nurse have prescribed you an off-licence regime. Desogestrel is the active ingredient of the mini pill cerazette and is not available as part of hRT nor has it been tested in this respect. Rather, the only study I could find (quick look only!) was from 1993 where a trial investigated using Desogestrel separately with oestrogen as part of hRT but at twice the concentration.
As far as I know there have been no recent trials using this or at least it is not licesned, nor even recommended to be used off-licnece although I know one member who was prescribed two mini pills ( giving 150 mcg) as she was already on Cerazette.
The problem is that this may not be sufficient to protect your endometrium so if the prescribing nurse and pharmacist came up with this one - well there are other licensed progestogens available which are listed on this website here:
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/to_progestogens.php and which they should know about. These are Provera, Utrogestan or the Mirena coil, (occasionally norethsterone on its own as it is already part of some combi HRT types). Do you know if there was a particular reason why they chose a) this particular one as opposed to the licensed ones) b) this dose?
Sorry for dampening your enthusiasm but it is important to be given the right products in order to protect your womb lining. If there is a god reason for this combo then fine - otherwise it's wrong again!
Hurdity x