If you've only tried Evorel Conti then that is probably why you feel better without it.
Evorel Conti seems to be a favourite of the NHS because of the lower cost per month to the state.
Like Flan747, I irrationally ripped off my Evorel Conti patch and walked away, because it was doing more harm than good to how I was feeling, northisterone isn't a modern progesterone, it's an old one, there are better tolerated ones if you decided to give it another go, if your oesteopenia got worse for instance.
I'm
only still trying HRT because of my bones. The side effects are bigger than the benefits I feel, I hope to find something I can tolerate so long term my bones will be protected, ideally tibolone.
I'd love a bone scan, oesteoporosis is strongly seen in the bent over tiny little women who are every generation above me in my family and that is really the reason why I perservered and now I have estradot50 and utrogestan 200mg for 12 days a month. I want to protect my bones and I can't tolerate calcium tablets, I've had very painful IBS since childhood, like my foremothers also had, so perhaps we all don't absorb something properly. Doctors ruled out celiac disease.
This HRT doesn't make me feel worse except utrogestan gives me bad wind and reflux even when taken vaginally. My hot flushes are reduced, as are night sweats, but they're still a daily occurance.
I was already a year+some post menopause when I started HRT, but I'm not any more. I became peri again somehow, I don't understand the medical staff on this topic, they contradict each other all the time, but it seems I wasn't ovulating until I got HRT and now I seem to ovulate again and I need contraception too, so they say, I'm 53, my GP says her oldest mum was 53 so it's not unheard of!
At first they called it unexplained/abnormal post menopausal bleeding and I was referred for a scan, 9 months ago, to see what is going on, but it's the usual postcode lottery and our postcode's not a potentially tory one with the "extra" funding from the government, (I'd call it
essential funding), so I haven't been able to have a scan yet and they changed my diagnosis instead
My uterine scan is next month btw, I have a date now and it's on day 28 of my cycle, to check the lining of my womb and I guess they'll try to estimate what it's thickness will be after my period, I'm not sure, it might get cancelled for the strikes anyway (which I fully support).
I want to get tibolone at some stage I've heard great things about it but I'm not allowed it while I still have (hrt induced) periods, as I'm only peri now, not post any more
If the scan shows the lining to be thick (the day before my period is due to start, my periods are always heavy with clots
), I might stop taking estradot+utro as well, wait until my periods stop completely again and I'll be 54 later this year. At that point I might be allowed tibolone, who knows?
