I had a menopause check by the nurse who asked how things were I said yep all symptoms under control, sometimes get a bit angry but it’s like PMT. She said she would refer me to the doctor, when I saw her she just said she was changing onto the estradem mx 75 patch and provera tablet. It not been on it a week and seriously could’ve been hospitalised I was off the scale crazy. 😰😰 would this happen after only a week? 😢
It's entirely possible for provera to do this in under a week. 15% ish of women cannot tolerate progesterone easily, we get crazy PMT symptoms with it.
For me, provera put me in bed within 24 hours, I was very ill both physically and mentally, crying non stop and panicking for no reason without any ease off unless I slept which was actually easy to do because I was only half awake anyway.
I knew if I had to live like that I'd likely kill myself as the better choice, so I dropped the dose from 10mg to 5mg, but it was almost as bad. Three times I tried it, every time it absolutely floored me.
I wasn't given a choice, like you I've been told what I'll take and switched without my opinion sought on the matter.
I'm learning the choices from this forum and I'm being more assertive with the doctors which obviously doesn't go down well and it's not easy to do.
I was on Evorel Conti for a while, I was already a year post meno, I bled so they gave me Evorel 50 and provera so I could have a planned bleed every month, it was disasterous. Evorel Conti made me weepy after 10 weeks, but nothing like the reaction I had from provera.
Now I take tibolone, happily.
We are all different, but many many people react badly to the progestins we are given, I turn literally into a crazy person and I could harm myself imo, my husband was really worried about me and he got me to stop taking them when the GP said to continue (she didn't listen to me at all).
My advice is to try Evorel Conti as others have said, I'm just long winded about it
