Hi Dotty, CLD and Nas,
Thanks for all your replies, gosh, there are others also in the same boat after all
Like Dotty, I quoted the Menopause Society website advising 200mg Utrogestan, but she dismissed that for the same reason. I can’t go lower with my patches as I don’t absorb that great to be honest with any patch, but these are the best I have found. When I was a 50 patch, after four months my estradiol blood test results showed me as still ‘menopausal’ and about 110 nmo/L so I doubt it’s gone up that much on the 75, but I feel better than I did on the combined pills.
Sid & Nas, I can’t have a mirena coil sadly because I have fibroids. A lot of them. I had one before and it was great, but i had to have a hysteroscopy in order to remove it when it was due, due to the fibroids and my tilted womb
it was a right palava, so I assume they won’t put another in.
I do have a menopause NHS clinic appointment CKLD for October and that was arranged last October, when I first alerted the anti HRT GP that I felt I should be taking more progesterone…I suspected back then it wasn’t enough
She reluctantly put me forward to speak to a specialist then, but it’s a year long waiting list. I don’t really want to have to wait another 6 months. Looks like I’ve got no option. This is very bad for us all isn’t it? It shouldn’t be like this.
Nas, the mirena coil was really good for me when I had it, you’ll never know it was there. I had it in for 7 years the second time and it was still doing it’s thing. It was just getting it out that was the problem, but that was purely due to me.
Teresa