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Progesterone only Pill & HRT

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Bumbleboom · 22/06/2021 08:15

Can anyone help please? I think I have read somewhere that you can stay on the POP when on HRT but can’t recall where I saw it and what it said about supplementary progesterone. Thinking specifically about Utrogestan and how the dose would work … wanting to be armed with correct info when I talk to GP.
Thanks.

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Bagelsandbrie · 22/06/2021 08:16

I am on the mini pill. I take utrogestan 100mg every single night and oestrogel 2-4 pumps daily.

Bumbleboom · 22/06/2021 08:48

@Bagelsandbrie

I am on the mini pill. I take utrogestan 100mg every single night and oestrogel 2-4 pumps daily.
Thank you … that looks like what I have read elsewhere!
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Bumbleboom · 22/06/2021 08:50

@Bagelsandbrie, do you take a break from the Utrogestan, ie 25 days on 3 off, or do you just take it continuously like the mini pill?

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Bagelsandbrie · 22/06/2021 08:51

[quote Bumbleboom]@Bagelsandbrie, do you take a break from the Utrogestan, ie 25 days on 3 off, or do you just take it continuously like the mini pill?[/quote]
Continuously. Never have a break from either. It works really well for me. I never have any bleeding. No periods.

Bumbleboom · 22/06/2021 08:55

Great, thank you.

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Bumbleboom · 23/06/2021 17:51

If anyone is around, the GP has prescribed the Utrogestan for 25 days with a 3 day break. Given I take the progesterone only pill continuously and don’t have any bleeds (nor do I want them), how is this going to work out? Will the break from Utrogestan force a bleed? Is it okay to take it how it has been prescribed? It may be right but I think I’ve read that it should be taken continuously as @Bagelsandbrie takes it.

Thanks

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