Hello everyone - for many months now I have read with interest some of the postings in the forum and I have learnt a lot ....we are not alone !!! Sometimes it feels that way....
I am 65 and was happily taking HRT (forget the name ) until it suddenly became unavailable a couple of years ago and they changed me onto something else .This is when the problems started - they put me on the Femostan Sequi by mistake which made me start bleeding again - only to realise they had misread the prescription and it should have been Femostan Conti. I carried on spotting and having very light bleeds .....then the Doctor said 6 months ago that the dose was wrong (i was was on 1/10) and he instructed me to take 2 tablets a day. Then real problems started - lower back pain , PROPER periods and full on period pain then palpitations - each day getting worse and worse so they are now putting me on an ECG monitor for 48 hours next week . In desperation i went back to a different doctor and she has put me on patches which are Evoril Conti......bleeding stopped immediately and the palpitations calmed down to just a few in the evening rather than all day which is what they had built up to . Now however after 2 weeks I've started bleeding again - for 2 days it was again a proper period ...THIS IS SO EXHAUSTING ......Next week they are doing an internal scan (I did have one just before Xmas and all was fine - I have a couple of fibroids but they were only 2cm and not growing ).
Has anyone else experienced any of this - how long should I give the patches ?
Many thanks for reading this everyone
