Hi again again
I just posted again when you replied to mine!
Of course it is entirely up to you - but giving your body time to adjust to sequential therapy with minimal progesterone under supervision would mean you had really given it a good go. If you feel so ill during the progesterone phase and the period of time of feeling good (on oestrogen only) is not sufficient to override this - then maybe you might be better off stopping, but as I said it depends what your symptoms were before you started HRT and how bad they were, and how they have improved ( if at all) since being on HRT.
When you were on vaginal progesterone - was this 200 mg or 100 mg and was in continuous or sequential? Really sorry I have forgotten all the details as I know you've gone through it several times - but would take me too long to search!
It might well be worth trying the patch because not everyone gets on well with the gel - there are equally women (like myself) who has never tried gel (oestrogen) but has always felt fine mostly on 50 mcg patches (recently increased slightly for reasons I have given). I started HRT probably around the same stage as you - I was late peri-menopause, almost 54 and had had a couple of periods probably in the previous year, and went 5 months since last one and then started HRT. I can honestly say that for the most part I have never looked back.
I probably sound evangelical about my regime but starting it when I did and the regime that I did - worked so well - and even then I was originally using Cyclogest ( vaginal progesterone pessaries) for 11 days per month and suffered migraines on withdrawal (of prog) as well as other negative side effects while taking it.
Dr Currie's intervention I imagine was deemed necessary because this website is underpinned by NHS treatments and led by an NHS gynaecologist and as such it would appear irresponsible to allow women to promote the self-prescribing of regimes that are not licensed on NHS, without supervision. There is quite a lot of what I call "Studdmania" - brilliant and pioneering though he is - but whose methods often go unquestioned on this forum. I am always aware of the (hopefully!) thousands of women who read this forum either as members or non-members and get ideas about their treatment from here ( as well as the main website) - hence also my frequent caveats - annoying though these are for some
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Anyway at least you will know that you have given it a lot of thought and your best shot and let's hope this time you get it right - with a minor bit of tweaking maybe?
Hurdity x