Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[pepperminty]

Hi ladies,

I am on my second packet of femeston 1/10 and I have started spotting blood whilst into the second week of the combined oestrogen and progesterone phase. This is unusual for me as I don't having spotting normally without HRT. Is there a reason for this ? Will it stop if I go onto 2/10 ? will I get a proper period when I start the new pack?

any suggestions would appreciated

peppermintyxx

[Galadriel]

Hi peperminty,

This is probably due to your own hormones partying with the HRT. See how you go for the rest of the pack. You may get a proper 'period' at the end of this one/ start of next pack. If the spotting continues and you are worried about it, go see your GP or Nurse Practitioner (whichever one is better at HRT) and see what they say.

I didn't have a withdrawal bleed this month - first time ever for me but I'm not worried. I never bled with the Mirena coil and, as I've had an ablation, my lining is all but gone anyway (TVS showed nowt left!).

It's a funny old game 

Galadriel x

[GypsyRoseLee]

't you just hate how unpredictable it all is? I find the uncertainty the hardest part of HRT to deal with by far.

I stopped taking the Utro a few days ago and now I don't know if I will have a period in the next few days or not as I'm on day 21 of my cycle and pre HRT would usually have a period on day 25/26.

Or am I just going to have days and days of spotting?

Have you tried for an earlier appointment with the meno nurse?

[pepperminty]

Hi ,
Thanks for replying. I don't think I have anything sus as such , its just I am worried that this will carry on and its unpleasant. I just wondered if anyone had experienced this and maybe had advice , or it has cleared up etc.

Unfortunately the appointment I have was a cancellation , so I was lucky to get one so early , otherwise it would have been August.

I agree it's the unpredictability , and as I am on the progesterone part I am probably a bit lower mood wise as well.

Apparently the meno nurse I am seeing is supposed to be good (lets hope so).

I am really knackered at the moment , so I am holding onto the hope that she will want to increase my dosage .

Peppermintyxx

[Greyhoundgal]

I can only comment on my own experience whilst on the same HRT.  Most months I would get my bleed just at the end of the prog part of the pack but once in a while it would delay until I started the new pack.  Towards the end of my three years on it the bleeds were becoming more erratic, lighter and shorter which is when my nurse and I decided I could swap to the 1/5 conti.  It could just be your body reacting to the new regime, I think I would give it another month to see what happens then?

[pepperminty]

Hi ,

Thanks Greyhoundgal,

I know it's early days, I suppose I am having a wobbly at the moment. I am just worried that it wont stop, or carry on like this for weeks. I need to be positive and think it may just be a blip and stop soon! I just don't feel very positive at the moment. Normally my glass is half full ,but I can't even find my glass today!!

I talked to someone ref menopause the other day and they bought a new car which is florescent green , because they were sick of loosing the old one in the car park due to the menopause making them forgetful !!

Peppermintyxx

[GypsyRoseLee]

So sorry you're feeling flat today pepperminty. I know exactly how you feel. Feel very flat and grey. Can barely muster up a smile. As for looking forward to our holiday? Forget it. Right now I would be very grateful if it somehow got cancelled. But only 3 days ago I was really looking forward to it and happily buying a bikini.

I reckon your spotting is to do with your body adjusting. My consultant told me that if I stopped the Utro this month then I could expect some spotting. Everytime you do something new with HRT is seems to often cause spotting. 

[pepperminty]

Hi GRL,

Thanks , I know you are right. Yep flat as a pancake!!

It's a shame you aren't looking forward to your hols, but it's impossible to muster up any enthusiasm for anything when your like this.

At least I am not crying!! That's next week!!

Deep Joy

Peppermintyxx

[GypsyRoseLee]

Aren't we a pair!

This is the cruelest part of hormonal depression. When you are low you cannot believe you will ever feel 'up' again. Even though I keepjuetailed mood diary and can see in black and white that my mood always DOES rise again I can't believe it. I am always certain that THIS time my mood will stay low forever.

Funnily enough when I had PND what was hardest to bear was my certainty that my baby daughter would NEVER get any older and that I would always be trapped caring for a newborn.

Just so irrational I know. I think that element of irrationality makes hormonal depression feel very different to clinical depression.

[pepperminty]

I know what you mean. We are a pair!!
I have period pain now which hopefully means I am going to have a period and then its over and done with.

Trouble is even when my mood lifts I am still suffering from the exhaustion and aches. But I am happier about !!??? The symptoms I wish I could get rid of/improve  are the exhaustion, mood dips , and aches. I had the sweats a while ago where I was changing my top in bed because it was soaking and I lived through that without connecting it to the menopause.
The brain fog makes the forgetfulness worse.
I would like to feel well enough to have a social life again. when I was working I had to make a choice , if I worked I could not go out or have a hobby. No energy to do both.
PND that's no picnic either.
I just hope this meno nurse will sort me out . Sometimes crap is still crap even if you put a bow on it.

Peppermintyxx