Thank you Vanilla & Clovie,
Yes I had spoken to a doctor about it who wasn’t concerned prior to my cancer but that was when I was still having regular ordinary periods for around 3-4 days every month (always been shortish for me) the last few months it’s dwindled to even just 1 day sometimes. It just suddenly occurred to me that maybe I needed to have my uterine lining checked (which I recall seeing somewhere that thickening can happen if you don’t produce/use enough progesterone). Or is it just a case of my period is finally giving up (hooray
) could be natural, age and full menopause or could be the radiation therapy.
I’ll ping a note to my GP and see if maybe I should have an ultrasound to double check. I have just paid for some private blood tests that include all my hormones so that should give me the levels of my progesterone and oestrogen.
I most definitely won’t be giving up the HRT as my hormone levels both times I have had to stop have gone awry and the rage I feel is quite awful, second time around I also had the hot flushes (goodness they are awful too and although I had had a few of them first time Sri I’d they def weren’t nearly as bad as faster my cancer) I don’t want to go through that again. These blood tests should tell me what my levels are and if any tweaks are required.
I will keep you posted!
@Clovie - fyi my periods were very heavy when I first started HRT (like I hadn’t experienced before!) it took a while for them to calm a bit but the hormones should kick in with the continuous which is why my private hormone doctor suggested I do the continuous regime. It took me a few tries to get the orstrogen levels correct as I got the tingly sore boobs etc so I just tapered it down and found a happy level - she said that the continuous regime should encourage my periods to stop but actually they just continued on and then cancer happened so I had to stop my HRT whilst on chemo. I hope the new regime works for you and you find your happy medium!
@Vanilla - as you’ll see above I have had two breaks from HRT the first one was about 3 months after I first started HRT - I couldn’t quite find the right levels and was constantly awake at night, the Utrogestan gave me palpitations I recall and the Estrogel made my boobs so sore and I felt it all a bit much (I was 48 then). So I binned it for a while in a huff. But then I started feeling that dreadful red mist again (was more the rage and out of control feelings for me rather than hot flushes) so after talking again with my hormone doctor I tried again and actually found a level that worked and for a year or so was fine but then when cancer turned up I had to stop all medications for chemo. I was too I’ll to notice but after my cancer treatment stopped about 2 months later I crashed into meno symptoms again with a bang! Luckily I had all my meds so quickly got back on to it after checking with my cancer team. They said I’d have no periods because of the radiation to my entire pelvic area. But nope, not me! I had my periods all the way through my cancer treatment and they’re still going! Albeit the recent change to just 1 day. So could be that is just things coming to a close for me. Frankly I’ll be happy to see the back of my period but was just concerned to check it wasn’t a thickened lining and low progesterone.
I’ll keep you posted once I have my blood tests back and also see heat GP suggests. I had my hormone treatment at a private practice in Harley St and my GP took over the prescriptions so I’m not under any supervision really anymore for it.