An update: I had my hysteroscopy under GA this morning and it all went very smoothly and I’m now back home and feel fine - just quite tired.
However, the landscape on my gynaecological journey has changed… I was expecting to have a polyp removed and Mirena fitted, but instead of a polyp they found three submucosal fibroids ranging between 2 and 4cm, so they just biopsied everything and didn’t fit the Mirena.
The consultant said the endometrium looks normal and healthy for post-meno and thinks it is extremely unlikely there will be any dodgy pathology. So that’s reassuring.
But in the meantime I’m to stop all HRT 😔 (though am allowed to use external Ovestin, thank goodness).
So, no polyp, nor 13.5mm endometrium (I literally have no idea what they actually measured on the ultrasound to get this figure!!)
But the fibroids are an issue. They have probably been there a while, hibernating and causing no trouble, but as soon as I went on HRT four months ago the oestrogen woke them up and they started bleeding. (Honestly I am so sick of the constant bleeding).
The consultant said because there are three of them, and my endometrium is quite thin (normal post-meno), removing them safely might be quite difficult. Hysterectomy was mentioned (am not even going think about that option at the moment!)
Or I stay off HRT, do nothing and they probably go back to sleep.
But that means I might turn back into a tired, dried out, headachey, sad old lady, and I so don’t want that… 😞
Anyway sorry for the essay, and maybe I shouldn’t be oversharing all this so soon after a general anaesthetic! But thanks for reading this far.
EDIT - rookie question - as I’ve stopped both oestrogen and progesterone now, will I get great big withdrawal bleed?