Hi Clovie - I replied on your original Utrogestan thread about 10 days ago here:
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,45779.msg759384.html#msg759384
Not sure if you saw it?
I don't think I have anything to add to that reply except to express further sympathy for your plight in the face of doctors spouting nonsense about safety. It's a licensed medication in UK FFS! Not some unregulated hormone from a random clinic (we've had discussions about these too .
Um why won't they prescribe oestrogel? I mean there is no reason for this if it is the licensed oestrogen that you use and prefer. What are they suggesting in its place?
You absolutely should NOT have to go to the expense of geting these licensed medications privately when they are available on NHS, and there is no good reason not to prescribe for you. PLEASE spend ?30 write to Dr Currie as an e-mail consultation if you have not done so already - briefly setting out what you have been prescribed and where (which authority), your appoimnets and reasons for their decisions, and ask her firstly what the position is in Scotland re prescribing utrogestan (when formularies do not have it on their list) and how to go about making sure you continue to get what is your right. She is based in Scotland (Dumfries) and will have the information at her fingertips and will be well aware of what goes on
Please look at the documents I posted on the other thread ( from last year) re the flexibility to prescribe something not recommended if it is in the patient's interest.
All the very best Clovie and if we can help further in writing the e-mail please let us know.
Hurdity xx
thank you Hurdity
I don't have any fight left.
Ive given my hubby permission to deal with this with the surgery etc on my nbehalf.
i feel sick with it all. I feel ve been treated very unfairly indeed.
Thank you for your other reply too, we did use some of that and some other links Ive been given in our complaint letter.
They replied to that saying the doctor I need to see (who is head GP who will decide) is unavailable until early April and is looking into it all.
however, we were told today that I ccannot haveutrogeston OR ESTROGEL now even though t is not our fault we cannot see the reqd doc until mid April.
I thought it would be only fair to continue prescribing it until then
I do have some Utogestan left but its no goodi if they won't give me the gel either! Why?
I cannot do without HRT, and I cannot take synthetic prog and even if I could surely itw would be bad form to expect someone to mess about changing HRT medications just because of such a delay
I am worn out with it all and already have anxiety and now panic attacks have returned and not had them for years. I feel so helpless.
I would very much appreciate help with wording an email to Dr Currie, and would happily pay the ?30 -ish to get her thoughts.
Sorry for any typos but I am so upset about the unfairness of all this.
Thank you so very much Hurdity xx