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[Misstowers]

I’ve been on sequential HRT for several years but have stopped having a bleed after 12 days of utrogeston all this year pretty much. My consultant doesn’t really have an explanation but said he’d be happy if I had three bleeds a year.

my last bleed was in April this year. So on this cycle I Decided to use utrogeston as a pessary thinking it might be absorbed better and therefore produce the bleed when I have the withdrawal.

However, after three days of doing the pessary and having really painful cramps and bloating I decided to take the fourth night orally.  I have had for the last two days a really intense stabbing burning pain coming from the left side of my groin around where my left ovary would be.

I’m thinking it’s either a kidney stone because I had some backache and pain in my upper Middle back last week or it’s a result of the pessary.

Has anyone experienced this? The pain is worse when I stand up or bend over but more or less goes down to a dull ache when I’m laying flat. Should I be worried? I am waiting to see if the dr will fit me in today. I don’t want to waste their time if it’s just a horrible new type of meno pain!

[CLKD]

Hi.  Let us know how U get on.  We NEVER waste the GP/s time even with those who have no idea about peri-menopause 

 

[bombsh3ll]

You are doing the right thing getting checked out. It is difficult to see how utrogestan pessaries could cause such severe pain, particularly given it is unilateral. Other conditions need to be ruled out and it could just be a coincidence that you had switched to vaginal progesterone.

Once that's sorted, if you are no longer having regular withdrawal bleeds on sequential, why not just take the progesterone continuously, by mouth if that route suits you?

Your consultant would be happy if you had 3 bleeds a year, but what about you? What do you want? There is no medical reason why anyone on exogenous hormones has to accept withdrawal bleeding. It is completely artificial and confers no health benefits.

[Misstowers]

Thanks both, haven’t had an appointment offered - my surgery has until 6.30pm tomorrow to do that. It’s eased off a bit whilst I was sitting, but comes back if I stand for too long. Seems that in the morning when I get up is the worst. I’m really perplexed.

I thought it might be the pg internally because of the severe cramps and bloating I also had a couple of days previously. I take it orally normally but had been told before that I could take it as a pessary as I generally don’t get on with pg.


I’ve been offered the mirena but didn’t get on with the coil after my first baby. I also worry that as I don’t like how I feel with pg, I wouldn’t want to take it everyday…

Thanks for your support. I hope that this pain will be gone by tomorrow. I’ve been stressing about kidney stones, ovaries and lymph nodes.

Has anyone has this kind of burning stabbing pain in the groin - a few inches up from where your leg meets your body on the left - and if so what was it???