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I wrote a formal complaint out but didn't get as far as submitting it. Daisy is for early meno but don't think it covers peri, but I will look again.

I know there is help out there - but it's just so disappointing for a doctor who has supposedly had specialist training to fob me off.

Thanks all, can't quite work out how to reply/like comments. All very useful.  I haven;t been able to find much about Cyclogest prescribed on NHS, just abroad

The reluctance to prescribe cyclogest or crinone is due to the excessive cost vs utrogestan.

However to be honest as the active ingredient micronised progesterone is the same, if you are progesterone intolerant there is probably little to gain by switching, however this is something you could try if you were willing to self fund a short supply, then you would know.

Have you tried or considered an oral synthetic progestin such as desogestrel or slynd? Both are off label as endometrial protection but supported by the BMS based on evidence supporting their efficacy. These should be available on the NHS.

Thank you.  I think that is what the consultant was trying to convey to be but I have read some women get on better with Cyclogest.  How would I buy some to try if I'm seeing NHS medical practitioners do you know?

I will look up those synthetic progestins - have always been scared of synthetic due to my blood clotting condition but apparently I don't have it anymore and just affects pregnancy and more fertile years

From where I'm sitting, he's definitely blind ;-)

Try taking half a day at a time.  Unless I have to book ahead, I try not to think about tomorrow.  We look at the weather and make decisions ;-)

I can't tell U how angry I am that he 'considers himself ... ' certainly a GP to report to Dr Currie and the BMS!

Let us know how you get on.  I believe that the daisy web-site is for 'early' menopause so but I may have dreamt that [menobrain here] 

Where did U read that discogirl?   The leaflet in the box is best thrown into the bin ;-) because manufacturers seem to list every possibility that might happen!

Not a problem for me.  I sleep like a log and never want to wake up in the morning  apart from very busy dreams.  Using it as an AD though without which I wouldn't B here.

Which dose discogirl? 

Not a lot can be eased with herbal remedies or they would be available on the NHS.  I think we swallow 40mg .......... in the morning.  Atrovastatin.  Reluctantly. 

VitD is the essential 'extra' apparently.  Although I haven't swallowed any from July and haven't noticed any difference 

Oh Jezze.
I remember singing that when I was just a little wipper snapper. 😃



Always On My Mind……….Pet Shop Boys……….

JS79 not that it will make you feel any better, but maybe it will. When I first got my result of high cholesterol it was 8.4. I got statins but they caused me side effects so I put these away and started using cholesterol lowering herbal tea. After recheck my cholesterol was 6.8. Then got a call from pharmacist a few weeks back who told me off like a schoolgirl (I swear never in my adult life I was told off this way) so I went back to statins and booked gp appt to change the meds for better ones. In the meantime I got private bloods done with result of 6.3 and when GP reviewed them she said that they are actually not bad at all and gave me a very low dose of new meds. I was original put on Atrovastatin 20mg, then down to 10mg after 6.8 result and now on 5mg.

I am not medically trained at all but I do think that "lower" levels of cholesterol can be controlled with herbs. I was mostly off my statins then "on" them during all this time (10months since first high result)

Nor mine. 😖.