Hi Galare73, I just read over your comments and a few others and I just want to say it's not unusual for your own cycle to override the HRT cycle, mine did it right up until my 55th birthday, my body has been behaving like the text book model of a post menopausal woman since my birthday, but I'm not putting bets on not ever having another bleed, the last one was only ten weeks back!
Joziel has said some suggestions and I don't mean to contradict her because she knows her stuff, it might be the same thing I'm saying, not sure, I ramble too much and read too little sometimes.
When I tried Utrogestan I bled regardless of when the utrogestan was taken, the GP simply didn't believe I was taking it properly, but I was taking it daily on the dot, so it was unhelpful to be told to take it on time and my problem would go away!
When I keep count of the quantity lost in my menstrual cup, I get to over 200ml. Meanwhile the NHS website says 30ml is an average period, OMG, imagine losing 30ml as the doctor must have imagined, they call 80ml heavy!
So when sequential Utrogestan meant having TWO periods a month (Or PostMeno bleeding as it must be called) I was not impressed at all. That's getting close to losing a pint of blood every month and I don't even weigh enough to be allowed to donate blood, so that was a problem. I had to go onto continuous HRT (tibolone) and just have periods when I had them, about once a month, that's far better than twice a month.
My advice is to continue with HRT but tweak it to suit your own body. That does mean going a little astray on what the doctor's instructions are, but they give instructions knowing very little about HRT medicines or what they do to women, so it's not the same as going against a doctor in a field where they've been trained or done research, this is a field where most are untrained, even in general practice it's not compulsory, or so I've read and the research is very sketchy indeed.
It costs a bit to get a doctor trained in menopause to work with you as an individual, but if you really are planning on quitting HRT, getting a private doctor and continuing HRT would be a better move imo, if you can afford it. You can usually get the prescriptions on the NHS after they write to your GP, but your GP can prescribe more variety if a specialist advises them to.
For now, I'd time taking the utrogestan according to your bleeds, because you already tried the other direction where you timed your bleeds to the pharmaceuticals except it didn't work, like so many of us have found.
On day one of a bleed, count that as day one, no matter where you are since the bleed before.
After starting day one as your first bleeding day, wait until you reach day 12 of that cycle, then start taking Utrogestan, usually 200mg daily.
What can happen then;
You bleed before the end of the Utrogestan days, in this case stop utrogestan and count it as day one again.
You don't bleed before the end of the utrogestan, you might be starting to align the two cycles, when you bleed is day one again, or day 29 becomes day one again if you don't bleed that cycle.
You start bleeding every 28 days on the dot, then take it as directed by the instructions on the pack. (it happens to some women, evidently)
You don't bleed ever again, yay, probably too much to hope for yet, but that would mean you could go onto continuous HRT, that includes Tibolone, which is my favourite by a country mile.
How are things for you at the moment?
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