Hi
Anyone on here use long cycle regime?
I use utrogestan for 10 days every 2/3 months. I use 2 pumps of Estrogel each day.
I was told this was OK by a menopause specialist I saw down south before I moved up to Scotland.
However, my prescriptions for Utro in Scotland have always said to use every month but I haven't. I'm prog intolerant and although Utro is the best of the bunch it still affects me quite badly.
This has gone on for 5 years without any question of why I am not ordering Utrogestan 'often enough'
My bleeds are OK, not overly long, or painful, and the month following utrogestan I sometimes get the emotional and physical symptoms of a period but no period, (Assumiing not enough lining to come away)
I'm 56 still having my own periods, lighter, pretty regular, but I know they are periods and not breakthrough bleeding as I get very noticeable physical and mental symptoms beforehand.
My GP has now only FIVE years reviewed my HRt and noticed I don't order U enough, and has written to me saying 'Utrogestan is no longer recommended for HRT in Scotland'
I'm beside myself as that reads like she is going to take me off it. I cannot take the synthetic progs as I react very very badly to them, progesterone intolerant, hence me taking Utro.