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[Katty]

I started Elleste Duet Conti at nearly 55, the first HRT I was prescribed. I always wondered why I was immediately put on the high dose and concluded it may be symptom led but just recently I was wondering if it was in fact my age. I wondered if most women of 55 and over would be prescribed at 2mg because it's thought that oestrogen is so low or absent at that point. If therefore the dose is needed at the higher lever to make a real impact a lower dose is pretty ineffective. Just a thought.

[Dotty]

I'm on that one too and I'm 53....been on it 3 months and it's not doing much for me.

How long have you been on it and is it working?

[Katty]

I have been on it a year now. At first I felt much better but then still felt exhausted etc. Last few months I had a flare up of an old problem on it of reflux. I've been experimenting with the dose in the last week by halving the tablets and I have to say a lot of aches and pains have returned so it was making a difference. At this age it seems we get used to feeling crap and it's all degrees of crap lol. One thing is for sure we are never going to feel 40 again

[Hurdity]

Some women find that taking a progestogen continuously like you are doing - gives them continuous low grade pmt like symptoms - anxiety, headaches, tiredness - which can counteract some of the beneficial feel-good effects of the oestrogen. However the alternative is to be on a cylical HRT (or have a Mirena coil fitted) - which means ups and downs of the progestogen and a withdrawal bleed. - you takes your choice! I opted to maintain a (long) cycle even into my 60's because I don't like the effect of progesterone - but I also don't like to have to bleed! For me this is the better of the two options because I feel well for more of the time than if I took progesterone all the time.

Hurdity x