Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has experience or could offer insight which might help me understand would could be going on, and what I should do next?
I had a mirena fitted in January 2015 because of heavy periods. I then started HRT in May 2017, at the age of 49, as I had night sweats affecting my sleep so probably perimenopausal. I had Evorel patches (oestrogen only) as the mirena provided progesterone.
This regime worked pretty well, and after some initial bleeds after the mirena was fitted, and had almost no bleeding, which suited me fine.
Fast forward to October 2019 and I had the mirena removed because my GP was concerned this had been in place for more than 4 years and so was off licence for the progesterone component of HRT. I considered having another mirena but decided instead to start utrogestan.
I started a continuous (25 days out of 28) 100mg regime. Because of my age (51) and no bleeding for a couple of years, I thought I might have already gone through menopause.
Since starting utrogestan, however, I have had frequent and heavy bleeds. There seems to be no pattern to them, and they're often continuous for 2 or 3 weeks. I've now been bleeding heavily and continuously for the last 4 weeks, so things are getting no better.
I'm worried that the utrogestan can't be working properly to thin my endometrium.
Is it possible this is just a transition which I need to be patient and go through, or utrogestan is not working, or something else?
I'd be grateful for any thoughts (sorry for such a long post, thanks for reading! 😃 )
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