Utrogestan ... cyclical

[HoliHormonalTigerlilly]

If you start taking it on day one of your cycle, then take for 14 days, do you then wait for your period to start to call it day 1 again?

Or do you just wait 2 weeks and start again eg so day 29 becomes the next day 1?

My consultant just told me to start on the first day of every calendar month.

There is different advice out there but I started mine on day 15 of my cycle for 12 nights (day 1 being the first day of my period) and then I plan to take it every 4 weeks from that date.

I found this vid helpful - 5 mins in for how to take it m.youtube.com/watch?v=MfjelYv-GZ4

It's easier to think of it as once a month, rather than 28 days (no one usually has 28 days regularly on a normal fertile cycle.)

It's best to stick to the same day each month, so the 1st or the 15th and just do 12 days from there.

If you still have regular periods, you can try to start it on the middle of your cycle so it coincides with your own progesterone, BUT stick with that day each month. So if you start on the 18th of a month keep to that date every month.

So 12 + 15 is only 27 days

I would normally get my period very regularly once a month thats a very short month.

If I reached the end of my 15 days or progesterone on 22 Jan and just started my period today 4 feb I'm losing a week of my cycle no?

I think I'm someone with a longer cycle than most maybe?

Do you think it's ok for me to call Feb 1st day 1 this month?
Then start prog again on Feb 15th?

Even though my "actual" day 1 of my cycle is 4th Feb? Sorry this has just got me in a pickle this month 🙈

I take mine for 10 days on day 18, then start day 1 again after last progesterone. I don't factor in my periods at all.

@HoliHormonalTigerlilly

So 12 + 15 is only 27 days

I would normally get my period very regularly once a month thats a very short month.

If I reached the end of my 15 days or progesterone on 22 Jan and just started my period today 4 feb I'm losing a week of my cycle no?

You need to forget your normal cycles, and what length they are, because HRT is setting a new regular cycle. Most women on HRT don't have regular cycles any more or if they do, they do change to less regular.

You won't lose days of a cycle because the withdrawal bleed only starts around 3-4 days after the 12th day of Utrogestan.

If your period started on 4 feb, then start Utrogestan on the 15 feb. OR if you want to leave it longer, start on the 19Feb and then the next 12 days will start the 19 March, 19 April, etc.

@somethingischasingme

I take mine for 10 days on day 18, then start day 1 again after last progesterone. I don't factor in my periods at all.

Have you been advised to use 10 days when in fact the usual amount is 12 days?

I'm not sure why you are using it this way?

It's 12 days per calendar month, same day each month, and with a break of 2 weeks between taking Utrogestan.

I've been taking it for over a year, 14 days from the 1st of the month. It's never overridden my previously regular but short cycle and now I have periods all over the place, probably one on my natural cycle and one from the progesterone every month. I am being checked out, but I bled all the time on the mini pill so suspect it is just hormonal. I find it quite confusing though how it all is supposed to work with bleeding and HRT despite reading a lot!

I find the bleeding element confusing too. How do people know if the bleeding is normal period or something HRT related?

@Livelifeinthebuslane

I've been taking it for over a year, 14 days from the 1st of the month. It's never overridden my previously regular but short cycle and now I have periods all over the place, probably one on my natural cycle and one from the progesterone every month. I am being checked out, but I bled all the time on the mini pill so suspect it is just hormonal. I find it quite confusing though how it all is supposed to work with bleeding and HRT despite reading a lot!

This is why i was thinking of sticking to my cycle. Its like clockwork. Does it matter if you count from your OWN day 1? And always take for 12 days???

Surely though, the whole point of perimenopause is that at some point your periods become less regular. This is exactly the time it’s going to start happening, if it hasn’t already. Everyone is going to have a time when they become irregular or less frequent and then dwindle away to nothing. This menopause process is the whole reason we’re on HRT…our natural cycles, however reliable they have always been, won’t be so forever.

If your cycle is more typically 30 days then just do two weeks on it and two weeks off and repeat.
It’s not an exact thing
I start on a Saturday once a month then take for two weeks, as it helps me remember.