I had a cervical scan in May which showed a thickened cervix of 15 mm. The gynaecologist dismissed this result as the thickness was normal at 5 mm when I had the mirena coil inserted in March.
Despite the pain I experienced from a badly fitted coil, the gynaecologist didn’t advise going ahead with the hysteroscopy. However the pain was so bad during the night that I booked myself into the emergency gynaecological ward to have it removed the next week. The gp practice offered no help at all. Subsequently I experienced withdrawal symptoms after stopping taking HRT (the coil and evorel 50 patches). After 6 weeks I saw a menopause specialist via Newson Health who put me back on Evorel 50 patches and utrogestan 200 mg despite the gynaecologist advising taking no HRT for 3 months because I was continuing to suffer from palpitations during the night brought on after the fitting of the coil. It was my 3 month review last month so I found another specialist who has advised my gp to arrange a cervical scan urgently due to the result of my scan in May! I have started bleeding again slightly so the GP doesn’t want to prescribe a repeat of the HRT due to fact that there may be cancer. I’m worried about coming off HRT again while waiting for the scan which can take up to 4 weeks 😞
