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PANIC! Want to come off. How.

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likeabigpizzapie · 10/08/2018 21:52

I'm panicking big time. Day seven of two pumps a day of oestrogen gel and no progesterone. My muscles no longer ache and my sleeping is better and I'm far more alert. But my stomach is distended like I'm four months pregnant (bloating). And I'm terrified that I'm risking endometrial cancer by not taking progesterone (the doctor Tod me to try without and if I liked it after three months put in mirena).
I don't want a mirena. And I don't want to risk endometrial cancer. I want to come off the f-ing gel until I can take it with progesterone. I can't get a doctors appointment for two weeks. I'm on two pumps now. Can I take myself off. What do you reckon. Reducing to one a day for five days and then once every two days. I'm terrified!

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QueenoftheNights · 10/08/2018 22:14

If you were using progesterone, you'd not use any till day 15 of your cycle anyway.
So that's a whole week from now . There is actually a type of HRT called Tridestra which is a 3-monthly cycle where progesterone is only added after 10 weeks. www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/1647/smpc

You are very unlikely to get endometrial cancer in that timescale. Some of us now are on a 6 week or 8 week cycle, long term. (But under medical supervision with scans annually.)

If you want to stop your HRT, just stop. You don't need to taper off after 7 days.

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