I though a few more women might share their experiences of how their periods came and went at the end. Anyone???
I'm inclined to blame covid for my misdiagnosis of menopause, maybe other women aren't even told an opinion on whether they are post or peri, it only matters for some of the medications offered, not all of them. I don't know if I had COVID. If I had COVID it wasn't the three named symptoms, I had an upset tummy and breathlessness, but no cough (same way I take flu) hence no test, but I felt very ill. My periods resumed 14 or 15 months later when I started Evorel Conti.
I want tibolone ideally but can't have it until I'm diagnosed as post meno again, so for me it does matter a lot.
I've no idea if that will ever happen while I take HRT, it was HRT that ended menopause for me and my five day cycle every 4 weeks were the only days I bled the year I was on Conti, after more than a year without periods.
The pattern is not controlled by the conti regimens so it has to be my ovaries creating the time frames of each period, what else can it be?
As long as my ovaries are functioning, even if they only function when taking HRT, it's still function that means I'm not post only peri and can't have tibolone yet.
I'm mopping my armpits as usual btw as I type, no relief from the sweating yet. We stayed away at the weekend and I soaked through the bedding, even though I lined the bed with towels. I woke with sweat dripping from my knees which were up out of the covers by then.
I still feel Estradot50 is better than Evorel50, I can feel something with Estradot and that must be better than feeling nothing the way Evorel50 is.
After I get my scan next month they will consider raising my oestrogen for the first time if my lining is thin enoough. I'm still on the starting dose that doesn't work, but because I was bleeding regularly on conti, I have to have a scan first and it's an eight month wait for that. Nearly there if it's not cancelled for the strikes!
Unfortunately, as I mentioned elsewhere, they have scheduled my scan for day 28 of my cycle, after an 8 month wait that's all they could offer me, alongside some mumbles about if a cancellation comes up then maybe they could see me on a day when the long awaited scan might reveal useful information, wouldn't that be nice? Makes a change from the usual "we lost your results" fitted into various different scenarios.
The staff aren't there without the money and the new cuts this year to the health service are eyewatering. It's certainly no way too try to get it functioning again, the auxillary services like carers respite haven't been able to resume yet, special needs kids and adults are just left without services indefinitely, but fixing it isn't their plan, is it?