Mirena coil is overkill and I felt terrible on it. I used for contraception. I am at loss to know why GP's do not know about Utrageston-Hurdity??? Utrageston I have no side effects on.
Jude- you highlight an issue GP's just do not know about Utrageston which is bioidentical progesterone and gives the fewest if any side effects.
Hurdity we need a Menopause Matter campaign to educate GP's!
My GP hadn't heard of utrogestan and she got quite irritated with me on the whole sugject, asking, was I referring to American Woman, and I said, no, English. She has got sore twice with me now over HRT and is a menopausal woman herself.
It is my right to have the HRT I prefer-gel and the utro, simply because I would rather a transdermal form of HRT, but am too scared to try the evorel in case I am one of those unlucky women who can't take norethisterone.
I feel too intimidated to assert my rights to the med profession.
In a conflict situation, however, my mind goes blank, and I end up letting myself down by not saying what I should, or saying something to make more trouble for myself.
Why the inequality, giving some women what they need, and putting others through hell?
Surely they see loads and loads of menopausal women and a large proportion of them are female and have gone through, or are going through, menopause themselves?
Also, I have been feeling better since Tuesday.
Femoston goes through phases of working great and then not working, but I impmroved my diet a few weeks ago, and although I still need more motivation from inside to excercise, I am getting a bit more and, I have lost half a stone.
This time, also, my daily morning rush IBS has dissappeared as well as the flushes and waking up sweaty, so maybe the diet thing has had a big impact.
I know nothing about mirena, and in my limited knowledge I think, why go through the trouble of inserting a coil and it's attendant, possible effects, when you can just take femoston, a patch, or gel and be fine?
Re drannievans.co.uk, I see its for early meno sufferers. My meno symptoms started at 44yrs old, does that make me eligible for the Early Menopause support group?
I tried to view the "Early meno"page on annie evan's site but the blue panel on the left covered the left hand side of the text so I could not see it.
