Very good idea CLKD - my poor brain isn't what it was and I am struggling to get my head around all this hormonal stuff.
Thanks jedigirl and Hurdity, I think I am tolerating the utrogestan pretty well, but time will tell. I'm not sure how to tell if I'm sensitive to progesterone but maybe if I was I'd know by now judging by what I have read on here? I don't think my body likes norethisterone though. I just wondered if there was any reason to take it all the time or not and why the product leaflet says to take a short break if research shows that continuous oestrogen/progesterone is the thing to do for post menopausal women to protect against endometrial cancer. I don't have any particular desire to take it every day or not, just would like to know why/why not and what the purpose of the break is. I won't ask my GP as he had never heard of utrogestan before I asked him for it! He was happy to prescribe it for me based on information I collected from MM
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and to be fair is very supportive. There was a female GP who had an interest in these things who probably got all the menopausal women but she has recently disappeared. There is a new lady GP coming soon who is a similar age to me so am hoping she might be more experienced about HRT.
I am using 2 pumps of oestrogel, did do 3 pumps for the first week then reduced it - I was a bit random I'm afraid; it turns out my GP had only written up 2 months supply (not very sure about dose/pack size) so I thought I'd change to 2 and increase it if it seemed necessary. I'd read older women might need a bit less than perimenopausal ones so thought 3 pumps might be overdoing it. I do feel better on it in general and like the idea of the flexibility of dose. I know it's early days but I am impatient and want to be me again!
Have I got the right or wrong impression that the dose of progesterone (ie 100 mg) is a bit of a guess/one size fits all thing and perhaps in the future it might be adjusted when more research has been done? Or is it finely tuned?!
Thanks!