Hi. I'm 51 and peri. I have been on oral HRT for a few years, Trisquens and Femstrom. They worked fine but I developed VA and went to the gyno who upgraded me to a more "modern" regime of estrogen gel and progesterone (utrogestan) - either 100mg daily, or 200 for 15 days a month, my choice.
Long story, short - the progesterone gave me the worst headaches of my life and painkillers did nothing to alleviate them. I called the gyno (who sounded annoyed) and now she's prescribed 5mg norethisterone daily instead of the progesterone.
I'm just really concerned because my previous oral preparation (trisequens) was:
Blue tablet: estradiol 2 mg (as estradiol hemihydrate)
White tablet: estradiol 2 mg (as estradiol hemihydrate) and norethisterone acetate 1 mg.
Red tablet: estradiol 1 mg (as estradiol hemihydrate).
So, just 1mg of norethisterone for 15 days was enough in the oral prep, but my doctor has prescribed me 5mg norethisterone every day with 2 pumps of estrogel. Does this sound right? Am I totally overthinking this and should just do what the doctor says?
Edit...I got up the courage to email to gyno and hope she not annoyed again. I'll update this post with the answer in case it helps someone else.