Utrogestan can be taken continuously with Estrogen without a break, but only if you haven’t had a period for a year and definitely in menopause, according to my menopause specialist Dr.
I hated Utrogestan, it gave me severe PMT and I had the most painful breakthrough bleeding, I needed Naproxen for the pain.
I get on beautifully with Estrogen, but very intolerant to Progesterone, a lot of women suffer with this. I also have Tostran testosterone. After 6 months of estrogen I still had no energy or libido. I had blood tests to measure my testosterone levels and was 90% below where I should have been, no wonder why I was so knackered. Within two weeks of taking it, it was as though a switch had been turned back on, it’s amazing.
The regime I’m on now is Medroxyprogesterone 5mg tablets once a day, Estrogen patches, Evorel 75 changed twice a week and Tostran, I have one pump twice a week. It used to be 4 times one week, 3 times the next, but my husband couldn’t keep up with my demands 🤣, so I’ve reduced it. It’s taken me 3 years to get a suitable regime, but I was determined to get it right.
I suffer with M.S and estrogen is important for damping down inflammation, it’s good for your bones and staving off dementia, without it I’m in a lot more pain.
Ironically hardly any research has been done in the M.S world on how menopause affects female M.S sufferers during menopause, quite disgusting but hardly surprising. My Neurologist informed me that I was entering into the next phase of M.S, the worst form, progressive. It turned out all the symptoms were down to the menopause. I have asked him to take this into account with his patients of a certain age, instead of scaring them half to death with an incorrect diagnosis.