Thanks Jedigirl. WIll be interesting to hear how you get on. Like you, I tried Utro for 12 days but found I had an awful dip when I stopped it. Moved to Qlaira, which was brilliant for months, but it's like suddenly my own hormones are causing background problems again. It's a very low dose for a pill, only 2mg on average so more like HRT, so I am wondering about moving to a normal pill like GypsyRoseLee is trying (see her pill thread). For HRT to over-ride your own hormones, you would need to be on a high dose I believe? According to Proff Studd's site, you would need to be taking 200mcg patches (two x 100, twice weekly) to suppress ovulation.
Ovulation can also be suppressed by moderately high dose transdermal oestrogens in the form of oestradiol patches or oestradiol gel. Appropriate doses would be a 200ugs oestradiol patch or 2 or 3 doses of oestrogel twice daily. Woman may occasionally feel a little worse in the first two weeks on this high dose, like an early pregnancy, but should be advised to continue as substantial benefit is almost certain if the diagnosis is correct. A longer term therapy would be a 75mgs estradiol implant inserted every 6 months. This like the patches and the gel will produce plasma estradiol levels of about 600pmol/L and abolish ovulation in most cases. However, women should be advised that this will not be used as contraception, as the appropriate tests have not yet been carried out.
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Topic: Continuous HRT but still having periods? (Read 12416 times)