Hi. I'm not having much luck speaking to GP and am struggling a bit.
I'm 53 years old and have been on HRT for a couple of years now. I started on Evorel sequi but had even worse PMS so was switched to the 25 mg patches along with utrogestan with a break each month. I carried on having bleeds, at fairly random intervals.
About 7 months ago pharamacist on phone said that I should switch to daily utrogestan 100mg as I'd been on HRT for a while. I did explain that I still had my own hormonal cycle of sorts but she said this would be find. Evorel was also increased to 50mg daily. I was told I might have some bleeding but then it should stop. I bled for 5 weeks and then had a gap, but I'm getting bleeds on a cycle of 17-24 days. And they are SO PAINFUL! The last episode left me completely incapacitated with pain and vomiting and I've just started again, 24 days later and with a busy weekend that I can't cancel.
I don't know if it's because I'm taking too much of something, too little of something, shouldn't be taking anything at all.... I always did really badly on combined contraceptive pill in terms of mood changes so wonder if I'm not great with hormones in general!
Anyone have any wisdom for me please?