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[Charleyfarley]

Happy New Year 🥳  I hope you all had a lovely peri-free Christmas ladies 😂🤦‍♀️

I have arranged a HRT review with the GP and done lots of reading on heavy bleeding but nothing beats speaking to real people who have experienced the highs and lows…

I started Evorel Sequi in September and other than health anxiety around little glitches I’ve been ok…I’ve had a normal period every month at the right time…not too heavy, not too light & for around 5 days…

This month I got the  period on time & started with a normal bleed….i had sex on day 3 as was quite light….im not sure if that fact has any bearing but on day 4 I drove for 3.5 hours with a tampon in…after 2 hrs I felt a clot of blood pop out…figured it was because I’d been sat down too long & prayed for the nearest motorway lay-by….well they kept coming…and coming…when I got out of the car I had to wrap pyjamas from my case around my waist & run to the shower….huge jelly splats (sorry 😂🙄 the best way I can describe them) fell out and for the last 3 days it’s been more controllable and calmed down…still a good flow though which would normally have died down by now…:

Im trying to remain logical and not panic as any literate I read says differing flows are common HRT….i have a review booked and before I ask for a change in HRT, I wanted to ask, is this something that can be a one off or people tend to see more of it once it’s started to happen? I’d wait it out but my daughter is only 5, sleeps in my bed and the sheer panic of leaking and scarring her for life tells me I need to address it straight away if it’s here to stay….

I ask because whilst my GP surgery is good they have no meno specialist and they will basically just go with whatever I want to do so I want to go armed with an alternative or some kind of plan….

I take Conti patch for 2 weeks and the 50 patch for 2 weeks….

I think my biggest concern is potential other reasons for the bleed…like the big C…because I figure why would the torrential jelly stuff not have started the first month instead of the 4th….

Anything that talks about “bleeding after sex” wouldn’t be quite accurate I don’t think as I was already on a period so I’m hoping that counts the risk of it being something sinister out…but I’m still really anxious that it’s something other than hormone and HRT related…

The only time I’ve ever gushed uncontrollably like this was when I had a pedunculated fibroid the size of an Easter egg 🤦‍♀️

Sorry for the essay….and the tmi…..I now have to find a car seat cleaner that will get rid of huge red stains 😫 xxxx

[CLKD]

I had clots but fortunately never flooded.  I had to sleep on a thick towel with two pads between my legs, could never insert tampons. 

I would think that it's due to the HRT upsetting your hormone levels, depending on what was happening prior to taking Evorel.  Which symptom did you hope to ease first by using replacement therapy?  I doubt if it's anything sinister. 

[Charleyfarley]

Thank you darling 🙏

I have PMDD since teens so HRT was mainly for the psychological aspect around moods etc and getting some stability…I’d say 2 weeks of my adult life have been ruined every month…

having my daughter and Menopause have always been the things I knew would be tough…when I had my daughter I was diagnosed with PTSD after a tough birth because of the psychological impact but I know it was hormonal…but unless you have thousands of pounds for private health care it’s tough to get a specific diagnosis…everytime I pleased with them to look at my hormones they said there was no point because they’d be all over the place anyway 🤯🤯

So when peri came along it destroyed my mental health…my baby girl is so young 🥲 still only 5 and she’s seen me struggle quite a lot…. just need the right balance & someone with knowledge at my surgery to help me

But for now I went to GP and they gave me Evorel Sequi in September….im really trying to be positive but these gushes & the jelly like clots are huuuuuge!

[CLKD]

Yep.  I can recognise similar during my menstruating years    .

Hormone blood tests can be reliably un-reliable  .  MayB see if there is a Nurse Practitioner who you can discuss this with, make a list to take along. 

[Charleyfarley]

Thank you 🙏 I think a nurse practitioner is definitely going to be the way forward….

Just stood up from my desk and the whole area is flooded 😫😫😫😫

[CLKD]

Awful! 

[Charleyfarley]

Did you experience this in Peri?

[CLKD]

Nope.  It was throughout my menstruating years.  In peri my periods waxed and waned, fortunately becoming lighter.  Other ladies have reported heavier periods as The Change begins.

[fiftyplus]

Hi Charleyfarley

I had flooding and big clots for months before my periods stopped.  I had to go home from work at lunchtime and change and when I say change I had to change pads (I would double them up), pants, tights & trousers, I always wore black too when I had my period for obvious reasons. I also now remember I had to wear night time pads during the day as my periods got that heavy near the end.  I remember another time wakening up in the morning and I had  flooded out (just as well I wasn't working that day as I would have really struggled big time). I also once worked with an older lady who had the same problem her blue office chair was flooded too one time and she couldn't get the large stains out.  Us women get it hard don't we ...

[Charleyfarley]

Aaah I’ve only just seen this! Wow you did have it bad 🥹 did you stick with the patches through it all? X

[VioletAquarius]

Hi CharleyFarley

It could be nothing to do with the hrt, it could just be a coincidence.  I say this as during peri I had very heavy flooding periods, sometimes with clots.

I remember twice I sat on the toilet for hours as there was no point getting up as a few minutes later I had to change both tampon and pad.  It was just dripping like a tap, with clots falling out every few seconds.

The second time when I stayed on the loo was even worse, as when I changed tampon and pad, and before I even got out of the bathroom (so approx 5 secs after changing) I could feel it all leaking out, my tampon and pad were fully covered - sorry, tmi, but if it helps you, or others!  This was evening time and I spent the whole night on the loo, the next morning went to GP who in turn sent me to the hospital where I was diagnosed with polyps.  Had these removed and my periods were never as bad after that.

[fiftyplus]

I am post meno 2 years now - I never took anything peri as it was before Davina McCall etc and nobody really spoke about it and had a lot less/none of the knowledge we have now. I did go to the doctors for anxiety, low/bad moods (bad moods is actually an understatement some days I was like a mad woman honestly being totally irrational), tiredness etc but they just basically fobbed me off gave me nothing and I left basically just feeling I was going off my head and just having to get on with it. At that time I was told to go back once I hadn't had a period for a year (that's what docs used to say then).   I in the last couple of months have starting using only Ovestin for VA but that's a totally different subject.

 In answer to your question, I again only in the last couple of months when I got the ovestin cream from the same gp who wasn't interested a few years back, she also gave me patches but said I was probably through the worst of it now so probably didn't need them.  I haven't used them but they are there and I am in 2 minds about starting using them as although I don't feel too bad now I don't want to feel any worse than I do and I don't think I could deal with the bleeding again.

So yes I had clots and lots of heavy bleeding to the point I thought it was my inners that I didn't need any more for carrying babies etc disappearing, coming out in the wash as they say ...  it would go on for days and I would then think I need to go and see about this and then it would get lighter and stop until the next month.  One time it happened after I had had my covid vaccination and I blamed it on that but now it possibly wasn't that at all.

So try and keep your chin up Mrs and if it does not become your new normal (which it did for me) go back and get a second opinion if your gut instinct is something is not right, although, I hope I have reassured you with my dramas that it can just be normal .. Keep in touch and keep posting and let us know how you are doing ... x

[Charleyfarley]

Aaah you have no idea how much this genuinely helped fiftyplus…genuinely, thank you so much 🙏♥️