Firstly, I can't really articulate the gratitude I have for the people who answer in these threads. I'm UK based and ALL my info about my own symptoms has come from here. So thank you.
I have a question that leads on from previous threads.
Since I became definitely Peri at around 51 I took elleste duet which gave me a monthly bleed. I had previously been having periods but had started with sweats and a whole host of other symptoms.
I took this ( loved it) for two years but my migraines were off the scale.
I, after much persuasion from my doctor (
) came off the HRT -her rationale was that I'd probably “ gone through the menopause anyway) and then had the most insufferable, miserable 9 months of my life in living memory. Sweats, anxiety, mania, hot flashes, brain fog so bad I couldn't even remember who I was let alone where I lived! ( obviously a slight exaggeration the last one but you get my point). But it was the migraines -omg! 4/7 days every week! Thanks to this forum and other web pages, I found that it may be worth giving transdermal gel 0.06% and Utrogestan 100 a try.
I could actually cry with how amazing I feel after literally two weeks on this. I feel...normal again. Even the dogs are no longer avoiding me plus all my meno symptoms are gone ( did I say all-yes ALL) and I've had one migraine in 14 days ...and counting!
I'm 54 now and I suppose as I've been on elleste since 51 and it caused a bleed regardless, I don't know whether I'm truly meno or still peri. When I was off for the 9 months I had a bleed exactly one month after coming off ( which in actual fact I had completely forgotten about- in fact, I thought I was 12 months till I worked it all out yesterday ) but couldn't work out of that was my body still reacting to tapering off the HRT. So I have been period free -no spotting at all for 8 months - and off HRT I have the whole gamut of sweats, flashes, moods etc.
So do I take the Utrogestan as if meno or peri? Meaning all the time or just 1-15 with a break.
My doctor is absolutely clueless ( she's only just swapped the original Progesterone she gave me 2 weeks ago after advice I got from here!)
My age and the 8 months point me to menopausal-I wonder had I not gone back on HRT, would I have ever had another period, then would have known 100% I was meno.
Any advice would be really gratefully received. I started the Utrogestan yesterday.
Once again -thank you. I thought I was going to go under two months ago and thanks to this board, I feel I can live again.
