I went to the doctors this week about some recent unexplained bleeding as I’m on the mini pill and as such haven’t had periods for years really (was very heavy) I started on HRT a few months ago and admit I have been switching between patches and gel / tablets and not been very consistent. This month was the first time I took the progesterone tablets and they made me dizzy and bleed like hell but it did stop after a week. Went to the doctors on Tuesday, she explained the recent bleeding was expected and do to with the progesterone tablets. She also did an internal examination and saw some swelling on my cervix so got another more experienced doctor to also examine me who said it looked like a patch of endometriosis, I was told years ago I had a patch of womb lining growing on to my cervix so this makes sense. She suggested I have a coil fitted to control the bleeding, I asked if I needed another smear and she said as I’m not due for another year they couldn’t do one, she’d take another look when she fitted the coil in a few weeks. Logically I’m thinking it’s nothing sinister or they would have referred me straight away and like I say I’ve been told I have this patch already, am up to date on smears but it’s really shook me up, a school mum died recently of cancer and it’s made me incredibly sad for that family and also a aware of my own mortality. Since the double examination I’ve started bleeding again a bit, not too heavy but more than spotting for sure, the doctor did say the thing on my cervix started to bleed when she touched it. I’m stressing out here and suppose am after some reassurance. I’ve booked a follow up call with the more experienced doctor on Friday, earliest I could get in