Ok here's the story. Thank you for asking. I am 65 years old and have been on h.r.t. for five years. I took Climesse and found it wonderful. It cleared up all my symptoms and I felt well on it. Then! I went to get a prescription filled and I was told it was discontinued. The doctor found me another one, similar she said! but it wasn't. She gave me Elleste 2 mg dose. I took it for one month and then on the third day of the next month, I had a period, which was painful and heavy. I freaked out, went to the doctor (another one - I never see the same one twice). I thought and so did he, that it was the tablets that caused the bleed, but because of my age and the fact that I've been on h.r.t. for five years, but to make sure he sent me to the hospital for a scan, two in fact, one external and one internal. Then I saw the consultant, had yet another internal examination. The scans were clear but he wants to see me again in April just to make sure. I decided then and there to come off the h.r.t. and the consultant agreed with me. I have been off it now for one week. Already I am weepy. I am very worried about the symptoms that I may now experience, having come off the drug. I have, in the past, experienced most of the female problems like cystitis etc. and I don't want to go through all that again.
When I was with the consultant, he was very kind and understanding. After discussing matters with me for a while, he suggested I try yoga, swimming or acupuncture to help myself. Fair comment I suppose, but I have a bad back so don't fancy yoga. If I am to get a dry vagina with associated problems, I don't want to go swimming because then I am exposing myself to all sorts of germs which I will have no protection against. The acupuncture, I have tried before for migraine headaches but after three sessions of that, I then had the worst migraine headache I've ever experienced so I stopped doing it.
I was not prepared for giving up the h.r.t. and it has come as a shock. I now need to find alternatives, which brought me to your site. I am pessimistic. I don't think any of the alternatives will do any good and I am loathe to give myself a new range of problems. I am not anxious or depressed at the moment, but if I start getting the symptoms I had before, I shall soon get anxious and depressed so I need to sort myself out as quickly as possible.
When I was with the consultant, he suggested another tablet - Clonidine I think it was, but when I looked that up I saw that it was for anxiety and depression, migraines and high blood pressure. I already take Beta blockers, I don't have anxiety as I said before and my migraines were under control. I don't want them to come back because I am lacking in hormone balancing!
Unlike some of the posts I've read on here, I love taking the estrogen. It makes me feel great. My breasts fill out, my libido is very high and I feel good. Progestogen makes me feel like just before a period and also causes bleeding. Climesse was a combined pill, estrogen and progestogen in each tablet and it suited me so well.
I want to know why Climesse was withdrawn? It must have been something bad that happened to someone or many someones, but nobody will say. I asked the consultant at the hospital, but he wouldn't say either. I feel cheated. It would have been nice if someone had told the customers that the pill was being withdrawn instead of just finding out at the last minute.
