Sorry for late reply. I have persevered and still feel rubbish. I am waiting to see my Dr but I think I’m way down the list in terms of priority, so I’ll probably get seen sometime next month! I tried utrogestan vaginally for a week and I started bleeding so back to taking orally and the bleeding subsided. Not sure if this is a standard reaction?Utrogestan taken vaginally is supposed to give stronger effects on the womb and less side effects to the rest of the body.
So really it should be better at stopping you bleeding when taken vaginally than orally, but it's supposed to be gentler than many older progestins in general and maybe not as effective as norethisterone in Evorel Conti.
I was told the most common reaction to any change is bleeding and that has been my own experience, but often it takes a month or two before I bleed on a new HRT if there aren't breaks in the progesterone.
Maybe you were about to bleed anyway?
We all seem to react differently to the HRTs, or this forum wouldn't exist.
I was hyper on utrogestan, I went from good sleep to waking every two hours and often lying awake between sleeps.
After a while of this I was tired as well as wired all day long.
It made me depressed (way more than just tired) which was a deal breaker, no point in solving menopause sweats if you're going to end up a statistic of menopausal suicide instead.
I was fobbed off for a long time, including months of unusual bleeding being completely ignored, partly because of receptionists thinking they can triage the calls in the absence of a medical professional. The average receptionist doesn't know enough so when they ask for that brief description of the medical problem you want to speak to the doctor about and we reply something like "menopause" or "hrt", that's the very bottom of the list, not always reached.
So 300 calls to reception, each made at exactly 8.30am
, might get us on a call list, but instead of speaking to a doctor after hanging around the phone all day, it's a 6pm text saying "Sorry, no more GP calls can be made today, please try again tomorrow if you still want to speak to a GP."Some people have talked about being able to change GPs, in the UK. It's not possible where I live due to the staff shortages since you-know-what, but clearly some areas have enough doctors for people to choose within the NHS, that might be worth looking into depending on where you are.
