Print

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

[Lindybop]

Hello
Has anyone out there been prescribed the progesterone only pill to have regulate periods? If so, has it helped?
Thanks
Zoey

[Lola Gizmo]

I'm looking forward to reading the replies you get. I've just gave up on HRT due to my crazy hormones in peri.

As my periods have been long and heavy I have just been switched back to Cerazette to try for 6 months. I'm hoping it works. 

[juliemargaret]

Hi Lindybop - sorry cant help on this question but i do hope you find some benefit of what youve been prescribed im sure soneone else will come along who has been or is in same situ.

Lola- . Did hrt not suit you? Im 4 months in and not had any benefits at all been feeling awful. Had a constant migraine on the left side my eye/head.  Im on estrogel and was to try a sequi of utrogestan from next week (as was orig on a conti method doc wrongly prescribed and that was awful)
Im this morning debating to stop ..not apply my gel and see how i go. May i ask what regime you were on and why you quit and did you just stop or cut down?
Margaret x

[Wobbles]

Hi Lindybop,

I'm the same as I've been prescribed Cerazette (desogestrel 75mcg) by the 'meno' nurse. I've posted recently on this but didn't get much response from those taking it for peri symptoms. It's supposed to stop periods (usually) as it's a constant dose of progesterone which stops you ovulating. How do we know we're not ovulating anyway though? Could use test strips - which I'm doing...

I'm still waiting for a period and then I'll decide whether to take it or not.

Not sure I want to go back on HRT due to the extra load of rubbish symptoms it gave me and general 'not feeling quite right'.

Hope you get some feedback from peeps.

W x

[juliemargaret]

Hi wobbles....how are you. May i ask how you felt and why not quite right? Are you peri or post and what hrt did you use xx

[sheila99]

Do you other meno symptoms you want to control? Can't answer the question but most symptoms are caused by lack of oestrogen so I'm not sure if prog only is the best solution.

[Wobbles]

Hi Jmargaret and sheila99 - I don't know where I am frankly, I've had peri symptoms for years. My condensed situation is in my new member post - bit of a wade to post it on this thread, sorry.

Recently, (May) got digestive issues, heart palps, bad anxiety and crap, heavy, painful, long and missed periods on Femoston 1/10 but then started getting migraines and wierd, weakness spells in the afternoons and evenings which pretty well frightened me off driving.

Been scanned, had fibroids and a womb lining of 5mm. Bloods and ECG (5 mins on a trolley) normal. Hot sweats and flushes returned too.

I stopped end of August with a blip of Evorel Conti which was horrible for a week (bad vertigo). Binned the lot and now waiting for period to decide on whether to take the mini-pill. If it stops ovulation then it must be suppressing oestrogen and if my symptoms are low oestrogen related it doesn't seem right to me as they'll go even lower. The nurse won't give me oestrogen to support the mini-pill though or test my hormones. I don't think she knows as much as she makes out to be honest. I get the occassional night sweat/mild flush every other night but get 6 hrs kip now so ok I suppose.

Otherwise I feel better in myself not being on HRT (so far...).

[KiltedCupid]

I'm well past peri but the other option for problem bleeding could be the Jaydess coil. It's the same idea as Mirena but almost half the amount of progestin and a smaller size for easier insertion. As it's a coil, there's no gut disturbance from taking oral progestins and you can add oestrogen as and when necessary. I'd have tried it in peri but it wasn't around then.

[Wobbles]

Just re-read that and sheila99 was probably replying to Lindybop and not me re: low oestrogen symptoms. My apologies.

W x

[Lola Gizmo]

Hi x I was initially on elleste duet 1 and then 2 mg. helped with lots of symptoms but mood was pretty awful for 2 out of 4 weeks and started to get hair shedding. Then went to femoston 1/10 and then 2/10.  Moods not as bad but didn't control own cycle. 

Doctor believes my own estrogen is very high but my progesterone is very low. And this was causing the long periods. 

Started cerazette in Saturday and cried for 2 days.  Feeling much better now and bleeding has stopped.  Was on cerazette for many years and had. I period so hopefully this may be the way to go for a year or so and then I will try HRT again. 

It's all a bit of a nightmare

[Wobbles]

Hi Lola - I do sympathise. I was pretty well the same on the Femoston 1/10 and had a massive crying spell moving from Elleste Duet to the Fem 1/10. Interesting about the crying when you started the mini-pill. I'm prone to that when changing over so I'll look out for it. Let's hope my period comes on a Friday then I can cry over the weekend. Bloody hormones.

W x

[dangermouse]

Hi Jmargaret and sheila99 - I don't know where I am frankly, I've had peri symptoms for years. My condensed situation is in my new member post - bit of a wade to post it on this thread, sorry.

Recently, (May) got digestive issues, heart palps, bad anxiety and crap, heavy, painful, long and missed periods on Femoston 1/10 but then started getting migraines and wierd, weakness spells in the afternoons and evenings which pretty well frightened me off driving.

Been scanned, had fibroids and a womb lining of 5mm. Bloods and ECG (5 mins on a trolley) normal. Hot sweats and flushes returned too.

I stopped end of August with a blip of Evorel Conti which was horrible for a week (bad vertigo). Binned the lot and now waiting for period to decide on whether to take the mini-pill. If it stops ovulation then it must be suppressing oestrogen and if my symptoms are low oestrogen related it doesn't seem right to me as they'll go even lower. The nurse won't give me oestrogen to support the mini-pill though or test my hormones. I don't think she knows as much as she makes out to be honest. I get the occassional night sweat/mild flush every other night but get 6 hrs kip now so ok I suppose.

Otherwise I feel better in myself not being on HRT (so far...).

Just to say that the mini-pill doesn't stop ovulation, it is a contraceptive because it alters cervical mucous. The combined pill is the one that stops ovulation by overwhelming the body with oestrogen to mimic pregnancy which switches off ovulation.

Fibroids are a sure sign of high oestrogen, which is why HRT is likely to make you feel worse. It tends to become very high in peri versus very low progesterone and the bigger the ratio difference, the worse the symptoms, including hot flushes.

[KiltedCupid]

Dangermouse - I wish I'd know this in peri because looking back, I was obviously having major E surges and needed them levelled rather than added to. Peri is a very tricky path to pick through and doesn't always require more E.

[juliemargaret]

Dangermouse - could i be feeling rubbish due to lack of prog? Im peri ..teied 100mg alterbate eves utrogestan and daily 2 pinls estrogel for few mobths and was  ot a good regime (doc put me on conti!!) I stopped utro and decided try sequi and as should be ideally. Kep to my gel daily but upped to 3 pumps as felt.so tired flat etc...and planed to add 200mg utro for 12 days and to try a cycle. Got to one eve and came on my natural period so.stopped and im.on 15.days gel only now.and was.adding utro in next.week.  could there be any chance.ny body is cryibg for more prog given its been on estro alone now for few weeks?! Not felt well...so was going to stop my gel today (havent applied it yet!!!)

[dangermouse]

Yes you could be. If you're peri then using HRT can be tricky as your own fluctuations will be happening regardless.

My GPs would only prescribe the pill, for this reason.

Some here found HRT still worked for them in peri though, which may be because fluctuations had already calmed enough to benefit?

Adding hormones is always going to be complex as it will throw others out.

Just to confuse matters, progesterone is also on the testosterone and estriol pathways, so if you take high doses (like the Utro) it can convert.