Meno clinic referral

[FlamingPinkflamingo]

Does anyone have any experience or advice to impart for my appointment with the meno clinic?

Im 51 and I've been waiting for my referral to the meno clinic for months after my GP being useless. I was on evorel sequi which caused recurrent migraines when using the progesterone patches. Then the mirena with evorel conti. This caused palpitations, nausea bloating and again migraines.

I had that removed and asked to be referred to the meno clinic as my GP either hasn't a clue or doesn't care what to do. So I haven't had any HRT for about 6 months.

My meno appt is coming up which is great but I want to make sure it's worthwhile and worrying that I'm going to forget something or not get the best out of it. The anxiety doesn't help 🙃 so any advice or experience would be gratefully received. TIA

Not surprising you had side effects when using evorel conti AND the Mirena.

What was that all about? Why two types of progestogen? In the patches and the Mirena.

TBH it doesn't sound that complicated (what to do next) as there are plenty of other options, as tablets, gel, spray, etc.

They will possibly offer Femoston which is a different progestogen, or estrogen and micronised progsterone.

I can't think of any advice, other than explain how you felt before and what that dr prescribed.

Thanks jingling. I was put on hrt via phone during covid. Then the only meno trained gp left and hasn't been replaced. No blood tests etc. So a waste if time, that's why I insisted in a referral after going round in circles. I'll look up femoston

Thanks again

Femoston is fine (pills) but better for blood clot risk to have a transdermal HRT via patch or gel. Having said that the pills are a lot less faff!

That's true but the clotting risk is very small (far less than with The Pill) and it's more of a risk for women over 60 who use hrt.