Hi Gals!
I've been mia and as the title suggests suffering in silence. It's really starting to mess with my head now so thought I'd ask for help here.
So for the past 2 months I've been getting severe bloating daily, starting in the evenings, and then mornings explosive diarrhea every day of the past 2 months. I really feel in my waters...wink... that it's hormonal, a bit like my period poo used to be just before having my menstruation.
I've been on bhrt for 6 months and have been increasing my dose of O from 1 pump every other day to 2 pumps, as I felt symptoms of menop coming back. So I'm currently on 2 pumps O and even when on one pump I have been on 14x100mg Uto vaginally. Also a pea-size Testogel blob for the past 3 months, and Vagifem every 3rd day for 3 months.
After wracking my brains, and eliminating things one by one(even my fake tan)I'm left thinking it's the Utrogestan. I've noticed so many on here write that they are progesterone intolerant but mainly mention the mental aspects of this.
My question is....What does the physical aspect of "progesterone intolerance" look like? Does it include bloating, flatulence, and diarrhea? I have read online that it does but not seen anyone here or in archives mention much about it at all.
I will hold my hands up and say that I have changed my O dose up and down quite a bit from 1 to 2 pumps and eliminating things may not have helped, so will say I have hormone imbalance for sure, plus i'm peri not post, but the regime I'm on always seemed a bit heavy on the progesterone side.
Also after a rocky start, I didn't have a bleed for the past 2 months. I will obv go see my GP about it if it carries on, but if it is hormonal they won't have a clue as to doses/regime advice etc. The qyne I saw was nice but didn't have any meno experience and put me on 1 pump O 3 times a week plus the 14x 100mg utro which I followed for the 1st 2 months.
Now I'm seriously thinking of stopping all the hrt and see what happens, but pretty sure I'll still be in peri and start suffering with those symptoms, insomnia, sweats etc. Don't know what to do...help lol! I'm 7 days into utro and diarrhea got mega bad from day 1 of it so pretty sure it's related to Utro. The day before I started the utro was the first day in 2 months that I had none of the above symptoms, it was bliss. After 1st night of Utro I pooped 5 times the next day!!! What to do, shall I have less Utro? Maybe 7 or 10 days as only on 2 pumps O more recently.
If you got to the end of this post thanks for reading, and if you make any sense of it you deserve a medal.
TD