I have been here before
I take 50mcg gel, flushes much more bearable than a few years ago, some nights I dont get sweats at all, before I was like a furnace and needed 100mcg patch.
1 take 100mg oral utro and 100mg vaginal utro. I bleed nearly every day, I finally went to GP and hospital and they are all updated on my bleeding and my womb is fine.
I am on valium, and reducing it under the supervision of a psychiatrist, so there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
The HRT I just cannot be bothered with. Applying the gel every night.
The utrogestan is a pain, I just don't want to rely on a pharmacy for anything, I want to be free.
The problem is this
""Neuroactive steroids, e.g., progesterone and its active metabolite allopregnanolone, are positive modulators of the GABAA receptor and are cross tolerant with benzodiazepines.[27] The active metabolite of progesterone has been found to enhance the binding of benzodiazepines to the benzodiazepine binding sites on the GABAA receptor.[28] The cross-tolerance between GABAA receptor positive modulators occurs because of the similar mechanism of action and the subunit changes that occur from chronic use from one or more of these compounds in expressed receptor isoforms.
Abrupt withdrawal from any of these compounds, e.g., barbiturates, benzodiazepines, alcohol, corticosteroids, neuroactive steroids, and nonbenzodiazepines, precipitate similar withdrawal effects characterized by central nervous system hyper-excitability, resulting in symptoms such as increased seizure susceptibility and anxiety.[29]""
Taken from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_dependenceWhile my psychiatrist prescribes lower dose valium to enable me to come off it slowly, coming off 200mg utrogestan capsules would be like coming off a MASSIVE dose of valium and could be life threatening.
My GP and gynaecologist do not know the relationship between valium and progesterone and neither does the psychiatrist, I can't taper off the capsules, I wish I had never started HRT at all.
I just want off it, can anyone offer a safe solution bearing in mind I cannot take synthetic progesterone?