Hi Ladies,
Me too! I've just stopped my HRT after 5 years - or rather, my GP has told me to stop immediately and I wasn't for arguing. She put me onto Evorel Conti 5 months ago to address the dreadful bleeds I was having on sequential HRT (Estradot 50 + Utrogestan 200) after 4 years of trying out various preparations and having the same problems with each re. bleeding. However, the bleeds were worse than ever (on non-bleed HRT) and were roughly 1 week on, 1 week off. I have lost so much blood I am now badly anaemic and my only medication is iron tablets. I am totally fed up with the whole thing - and I've put on so much weight in these last 5 months (probably because of the chocolate and rubbish I've been stuffing when I was bleeding).
So, I've gone cold turkey and am wondering how long it's going to take me to turn into psycho woman again.
I'm being referred to the gynie clinic at the local hospital where I understand I'm going to get a scan to see if that can show anything up. If everything is ok, an option is Mirena but I've heard horror stories about this (bleeding and weight gain). I'm 53 and thought the worst would be over by now.
God, this menopause lark is no fun is it? I so envy my friends who simply sail through it with the odd flush....
Mags x