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[KaraShannon]

I'm just wondering and curious.  No other reason. 

I still feel like I'm having 'my own' cycle, but I've been on evorel sequi 4 years and am 54. 

I started it while still having regular periods.  A year and a half ago I was told to halve the hrt as my oestrogen was too high.  I am now still on Evorel 50. 

I just feel I haven't ever got to a place where I felt I was in menopause, because I never, as yet, saw my cycle stop.  It might be that taking hrt early has stopped me from ever seeing that, but I thought it was the right thing to do at the time.

I am going to have a review of treatment because at some point I have to come off evorel sequi.  But I don't think evorel conti will work for me because I tend to get a lot of menopausal symptoms on the combined part of my treatment currently.

[bombsh3ll]

Yes there is. You just stop the HRT and wait a few weeks.

You have to consider whether that information is worth the suffering that could ensue in order to obtain it.

Technically you would have to wait a year without a natural period to be conclusive but who's going to do that?!

If you want a less brutal and nearly as accurate method (because progesterone in HRT isn't usually strong enough to suppress endogenous ovarian activity), you can just go onto continuous.

If you don't tolerate the norethisterone in the combination patch very well there are multiple other options so do ask your prescriber rather than putting up with it.

[sheila99]

For me hrt induced ones are very much lighter, shorter and pain free. I get sore boobs with progesterone so as long as I haven't started the hrt prog I know my body is gearing up for a bleed. Many women are unable to tell though in which case the only way to know is to stop the hrt. Utrogestan might be the next thing to try instead of the conti patches.