Getting fed up with hrt

[riley64]

Started on hrt early December last year taking 2 pumps of estragel and 1 progesterone tablet daily. Fine for first 3 months worked great then started with bleeds spoke to nurse and she said to up the gel to 2 in morning and 1 in evening I am still bleeding every 2 weeks now with intermittent spotting. I have also got tightness in calves of legs and back pain and cannot get an appointment for another 3 weeks. Was wanting to know if anyone else had been through this or should I just stop until I can speak to someone.

Started on hrt early December last year taking 2 pumps of estragen gel daily all was fine for the first 3 months then started bleeding spoke to nurse who said 2 up the estragen gel to 2 in morning and 1 in evening along with my progesterone tablet I am now bleeding every 2 weeks with spotting in between. I am also having tightness in my calves and pain in lower back cannot get an appointment with anyone for another 3 weeks and was wondering if anyone else had same problem and if I should just stop altogether.

Your progesterone probably needs adjusting.
Additional Oestrogen won’t solve bleeding, but trialing a different progesterone, could fix the bleeding for you.

Definitely try and get an appointment to discuss the bleeding.

It is normal within the first six months, but after that, it will need investigating.

The other option is to switch to a cyclical regime, so that you get a more predictable bleed each month.

Best of luck.

Thanks for the reply will stick with it until I speak to someone

If you had periods in the past year before starting hrt and you are on a continual regime then the 2 bleeds can be your own cycle plus the artificial cycle

Have you thought about a Mirena coil ? It should stop you bleeding.

Your nurse's advice was wrong! All back to front!

You're bleeding because the amount of progesterone is too low for 3 pumps of gel.

Have you thought about dropping down to 2 pumps?

And, as a PP says, if you are not 12 months post-meno, you should be on a cyclical regime, of progesterone 12 days per month ( 200mgs each of those days.)

Jingling is correct 👍👍👍
Poor nurse advice there!

Hi thanks for the replies I was 2 years without period I certainly think I was given wrong advice will see what she says no one else at my local medical centre seems to know what to do

TBH unless she is a nurse with specialist training in HRT she doesn't know what she's talking about- she's told you to do the exact opposite of what's needed. See a dr or someone else.