Hello,
Just wanting a little bit of advice before venturing to see GP for a review of HRT.
I started on Elleste Duo over a year ago. Fine on the oestrogen, homicidal on the green tablets and flooded every hour during my period. So I requested a change to Femoston 1mg sequential which has worked really well until a few months ago. Now having more hot flushes, problems sleeping (not just due to hot flushes), increase in mood swings, fatigue and PMT. My perception is that things are worse in second half of the month.
Questions are:
1.How long does oral oestrogen stay in the blood stream? I take it in the morning - would the effects the following night be a lot less?
2.For a perimenopausal woman, like myself, on sequential, how would you know when/if to move onto combined?
I am thinking, would I be better on a medium dose transdermal oestrogen plus Utrogestan? I am quite wary of the type of progesterone I take, as a long time ago I tried a mirena and bled continually for 5 months, then there was the Elleste homicidal problems! Could the progesterone be taken every 3 months if I was on transdermal oestrogen? (I am 50 and was having irregular periods, sometimes 4 months apart prior to HRT, sometimes very heavy).
I would like to be armed with knowledge as although my GP is lovely, she is young and didn't agree with me that anxiety was a menopausal problem and didn't seem to know there is sequential transdermal treatment either. Which I don't dis, as GPs can't all be expert on menopausal matters!
Many thanks for any help.