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Please help me avoid holiday bleed

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AnastasiaaBeaverhousen · 02/01/2019 19:22

Evening ladies, looking for a bit of advice. I’m going on big, much anticipated holiday for the second half of February. I currently take daily oestrogen gel and progesterone pills for the first ten days of the month, which brings in bleed roughly days 13-18 of the month. I want to avoid having a period at all while I’m on holidays. Is it best to:

A) skip the feb progesterone tablets altogether and cross my fingers that I don’t get any breakthrough bleeding.

B) move my progesterone to the second half of the month, starting this month, so I take it days 20-30.

Does anyone have experience of which of these will have the best result without messing with my cycle for months on end? I’m pretty sure my bleed is completely brought on by the tablets now, rather than being my natural cycle, even though I’m on HRT for POI and am not yet 40.

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JinglingHellsBells · 03/01/2019 16:30

You could do either. Long cycle is okay, whichever way you do it, either waiting till 20th of month or missing a month completely.

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