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Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: sadielouise78 on January 16, 2018, 01:56:47 PM

Title: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: sadielouise78 on January 16, 2018, 01:56:47 PM

Hi, I've been told by my gynacologist I am post-menopausal and have been put on HRT (Elleste Duet 1mg tablets).  Reading the book it says I will have a monthly bleed.  Is this right?  If I'm post-menopausal, and as my letter states, have none functioning ovaries, will I have this bleed?  I'm very confused, especially as I am only 43.  Thanks.

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: Dotty on January 16, 2018, 01:57:57 PM

When was your last period?

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: sadielouise78 on January 16, 2018, 02:00:23 PM

June/July time but then had another bleed in December which they put down to my pill, Celest, which I'm now not taking (but obviously being careful just in case).

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: Dotty on January 16, 2018, 02:05:01 PM

Until you have not had a period for a year then you are still in peri menopause so you have been given the right hrt .

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: sadielouise78 on January 16, 2018, 02:07:54 PM

Well that's what everyone on here seems to say but according to the specialist I'm post-menopausal (according to my FSH, LH and oestradiol tests in particular my Beta-oestradiol is less than 44).  My scan showed both ovaries are normal but featureless and endometrium is thin.  I don't know what to think really.

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: Dotty on January 16, 2018, 02:12:09 PM

I think fsh can show you are post menopausal but you can still be having periods. I've read that somewhere. You might not bleed on the hrt you have been given .

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: sadielouise78 on January 16, 2018, 02:21:47 PM

I guess I just have to wait and see.  And definitely use precautions.  What a nightmare!  Its so confusing  :(

Title: Re: Post-menopausal and started on HRT
Post by: Dotty on January 16, 2018, 02:24:49 PM

Yes that’s right x