Half cycle of HRT pattern?

[Ladymuck2022]

Hi,

My family want me to go back on hrt. I’m having periods still latest one arrived on queue this week 33 days after last one which I think is pretty good for me and there were a couple of signs so not out of the blue.

Am I right in thinking if you do half month of hrt then you start back on it after period stops, do 2 weeks then stop and repeat? Until periods look like they’ve stopped at 12 months absence I presume?

I’m just having difficulty with my family as I don’t want to go back on it fully as I was drinking on hrt last Autumn regardless (I have since quit the booze big style, can’t honestly put a finger on why I got out of control) and felt worse back then, then I do now.

Normally with HRT you take the progestogen for half of the month (on specific days regardless of your natural cycle) and the oestrogen for the whole month.

I can’t imagine stopping and starting the oestrogen would do you any favours at all! Your levels are already dropping and to increase and decrease them by taking oestrogen for half the month - wow the fluctuations would cause you no end of upset!

Can you clarify what you mean by ‘HRT half cycle’ @Ladymuck2022?

Agree with @SoScarletItWas

You use estrogen every day. If you're not post menopausal, you'll be on sequential HRT which means for half the month (or 12 days) you'll be using a type of progesterone with the estrogen.

You either use it properly or not at all- there's no 'half a month' .

Why does your family want you to go back on it? How does you being on HRT or not affect them?

Thank you for the guidance, I couldn’t remember about how that setup worked so thank you.

My family are just so anti - anti depressants saying my grandmother was on Valium for well over a decade when she went through the change and how lucky I don’t live in those times. They think they’ve seen it work for a cousin of mine who is 6 years older and swears by HRT despite continuing to have night sweats?. I woke up to a link from one of my parents about some news link about the future GP plan to treat menopause in the community, keeping people away from hospitals. I don’t live with my parents so guess it is easy enough to keep them at bay as I feel I have capacity to manage.

You also have the option to choose whatever works for you and not tell your family. Whether that is HRT, anti-depressants or both.

It is true that many women were treated incorrectly years ago and I know many who were- friends on my Mum, and family.

The news about more support on menopause from 'hubs' is a long term plan and not really relevant to you.

it's also not your parents' business- how you manage your health in your 50s is not something to share with your parents although I can see they were perhaps worried about your use of alcohol.

I'm not sure what you're asking really.
It's coming over as if you don't want to use HRT maybe because when you tried it before it wasn't helping. That's more likely to be the dose and type, so I'd not rule it out altogether.

But it's your choice what you do.