Thanks so much, Hurdity. I was feeling sorry for myself this morning I'm pretty good at self care: I exercise, meditate, enjoy walking, etc. I really think it's the chemical effect of the norestitherone.
I'm topping up with spatone (my levels are historically poor).
My family member is asymptomatic thankfully. I don't have a date for the scan as yet. I suppose my worry is if I stop the norestitherone I will have another bleed and I dread it being like the last one. The spotting is negligible today so I'm thinking perhaps I'll have more respite this way. But then I feel lousy on the norestitherone. I was concerned that the bleeding hadn't stopped within 2-3 days as it states is usually the case on the patient information leaflet. But then I'm also aware a side effect can be spotting. I feel like I'm in a catch 22 situation..I've read lots of reports of women bleeding heavily when they stop norestitherone so I'm convinced this will be the case for me. I can't imagine how I would make so much lining again though in such a short time! A few people have said they felt a course of norestitherone reset them.
I'm 55, by the way. Still peri...some months I had only the withdrawal bleed from HRT, but often I would get a bleed of my own too. My cycle has been pretty persistent apart from when I took Elleste Duet to begin with. It seemed the norestitherone in that controlled my cycle but made me feel lousy for 2 weeks of every month. Oesrogel and utrogestan suited for a while then I started to get very sore breasts and spotting. As it was during lockdown I reduced the Oestrogel and that seemed to resolve for 3 months then the pattern repeated. It felt like I had had an oestrogen surge, so I weaned off and then stopped. I used the utrogestan religiously until that last month when I had spotted most days and only used a dot of oestrogel. I started a normal bleed a few days after quitting completely and thought I had cracked it! But the intermittent spotting and then extremely heavy period followed. I'm a mess!
Thanks for taking so much time with me. X