WWYD? Norethisterone/period related

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I need to talk through what to do but haven't anyone I can discuss this with. I am not feeling great and don't trust my judgement right now.

I am going away for a long weekend with some friends tomorrow. We have a villa booked and a lot of time is planned to spend in and around the pool. My period was due at the weekend but hasn't arrived yet. My periods are super heavy and the first few days are usually a write off as I can't leave the house. If it had arrived on time then I would have been over the worst of it by tomorrow. I am now worrying about it starting tonight and being on a plane and having to share a room and bathroom at the villa and not being able to join I with the others.

I have just found some norethisterone in my drawer that was prescribed over 10 years ago and I am thinking about taking it even though it has passed the expiry date on the box. Medicines usually last a lot longer than the expiry date but this is about 10 years past. I won't be able to get a doctor's appointment before I go away so it is this or nothing.

Am I mad to be thinking about taking it?

You can get it from boots, I wouldn't use 10 year old medication.

Thank you for replying. I will try to get to Boots first thing in the morning and hope my period doesn't start tonight.

Have you taken it before? My mum used to take it for holidays without issue but it left me a wreck and wasn’t worth it! I would get some from the pharmacy tomorrow, if it’s altesdy started I would talk to the pharmacist, I found transemic acid dramatically reduced my flow and made it much easier to manage (and stopped me becoming anaemic)