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[Anonymous1]

Hi MerryGoRound,
Thank you very much for your reply.  I am sorry to hear that your GP wasn't more helfpul.  I am pleased that you managed to find something in the end.  I am just taking half a patch of Evorel Conti now whilst I decide what to do next and FemSeven Conti arrives which I will try next.  There is a lady whom runs a Menopause group in my town so I think I will see to I can arrange to have a 1:1 chat with her. 

Flower

[Anonymous1]

UPDATE
I ordered some FemSeven Conti from a independent pharmacy.  I introduced it gradually starting with 1/2 patch and 1/2 patch of Everol 50.  I have been on a full patch of FemSeven Conti on it's own over 2 weeks now and am tolerating it.
I feel better on this compared to no HRT.  My body aches and pains are alleviated by it.  However, my mood is still quite flat and I still don't feel like my normal self.  The progesterone seems to cancel out a lot of the benefits of oestrogen on my mood.  However, the progesterone has improved the depth of my sleep.  There are likely to be other factors affecting my mood.  However, as I have never had this 'flat' feeling befoe I think it is atleast partly hormonal.  I have also put some weight on.  I don't know whether to just stay on FemSeven Conti a bit longer before increasing the oestrogen e.g. Evorel 25.  I have some Evorel 50 patches left.

I tried re-introducing Cyclogest as I would prefer to be on a body identical progesterone; starting with 1/2 the usual dose but still experienced side effects.

When I saw a private meno nurse a few months ago due to difficulties tolerating progesterone she suggested having a month on just Evorel 50 to get my oestrogen levels up before re-introducing a form of progesterone.  In the end I had 2 weeks on just Evorel 50 and then I have had about 4 weeks where I have tried a few forms of progesterone but started at a lower dose alongside the standard dose of oestrogen.  I hope that as it is a short period of time it will have not affected the womb lining.  By trying a few different progesterones and introducing them at a lower dose to begin with I have managed to find something I can tolerate. 




 

[chopsuey]

When I was struggling with Utro intolerance, my specialist said it was OK to just have oestrogen for up to 3 months before introducing Utro again but at a lower dose (vaginally), so you should be fine with what you've done

[merrygoround]

When I was struggling with Utro intolerance, my specialist said it was OK to just have oestrogen for up to 3 months before introducing Utro again but at a lower dose (vaginally), so you should be fine with what you've done

The specialist menopause nurse told me this also, she said it's better to see if the oestrogen will help first before trying to combine it with progesterone which is so problematic. Sort the easy one first, then fit the difficult thing around it.
I was given ten weeks oestrogen which made me feel better, then adding progesterone had me feeling worse than baseline so I gave up on that type of HRT, it wasn't worth it.
I'm happy on tibolone.
Congrats on getting it from an online pharmacy, I don't know how difficult that was, but I get so fed up with the GPs changing their minds every five minutes about meds that mess up your head when chopped and changed about, I'd get it where I can too!