My 18 yo daughter has been diagnosed with endometriosis. She has been taking Drospirenone (Slynd) for 5 weeks but has a lot of nausea, tiredness and low mood which is affecting her everyday life. She has done all the recommended things for the nausea (taking the pill on a full stomach, at the same time everyday, hydrating etc) but it is not helping. Has anyone found that side effects improve after 3 months? Her GP's experience is that most side effects that are there after 4-6 weeks tend to persist.
Her GP could switch to Desogesterel (Cerazette) but looking online this looks even worse for side effects. Has anyone switched from Drospirenone/Slynd to Desogestrel/ Cerazette and seen an improvement in side effects?
I have been looking at body identical progesterone (utrogestan) as an alternative treatment but our GP cannot prescribe this for endo treatment. Does anyone have any recommendations of doctors with experience of prescribing body identical progesterone for endometriosis treatment? There are lots of recommendations of excision surgeons but I cannot find many recommendations for doctors experienced in treatment, before getting to surgery. We live in Herefordshire but realise we will probably have to travel. Also happy with online as she has already had her diagnosis. Please just send any recommendations that you may have!
I'd also be very interested to hear from anyone that has successfully used progesterone as a treatment.
TIA