Stopped Using HRT

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Has anyone just stoped?
Any problems?
How do you feel?

If you're on it, don't suddenly stop. Seek healthcare advice.
There are risks with thickening of the womb if having oestrogen without progesterone, for example.
Your GP will help you change or reduce it if this is what you want or need to do.

I stopped, day 7, much more energy, last week I had headaches, but I expected that…

I keep thinking of doing so. Love oestrogen, hate progesterone it makes me feel like crap. Have tried several types/regimes.

I stopped the patches while ago as it didn’t few like it was doing anything. I’ve had a hysterectomy so it was only oestrogen. I am still using vaginal oestrogen though as my main symptom is dryness.

How long had you been on it for? If a while you may well have some hormones in your system so it might be in the next few weeks that you feel the difference. Hopefully not but 7 days off it is early days.

Nearly 5 years, good point 🐠🐠

I tried it for a year and I’ve never felt worse.
I’ve just booked in with the louise Nelson clinic for a online consultation. I want testosterone. Basically my problems seem to mainly stem from having no energy so I cannot believe my testosterone levels are normal.
But I am not taking the other two again. I felt like I was having out of body experiences.

I stopped using sequential HRT as my GP suggested I did to see if my periods had stopped and to see if I was still getting menopausal symptoms. I stopped and gave it nearly 4 months but all the symptoms returned so I went back on non-sequential HRT. I feel so much better on it than off it. I sleep well, my body thermostat actually works and I get far, far fewer migraines.

BUT….
I have developed polyps.

I stopped, I feel so much better. A GP told me it was ok to just stop, I might have a period when I stopped but nothing to worry about, but I haven't.

I stopped in absolute anger towards the GP sending a stupid half a!!ed letter on Monday 14th April. Could I book an appointment to discuss changing HRT…..and nhs gynaecology refuse to see you for a small fibroid.

I had a water infection in March which the GP refused to treat telling me it was just peri so it’s stuck in my throat just a bit.

Saw a female private gynaecologist on 22nd April who said it’s ok dear you don’t need to take hrt if you don’t want, progesterone is a short term relief for your fibroid.
NHS gynaecologist won’t see you with a fibroid under 5cm. Thanks, fine why couldn’t the female GP just have said.

By the end of that week 25th April I was in a hospital with a red leg and query the words blood clot and ironically went to theatre just past a gynae ward… so I wouldn’t stop without telling anyone.

They (the hospital) did try and talk to me whilst out of it following debridement surgery. I can’t remember it well enough at all. I got lucky my fibroid doesn’t bother me these days 🤞🤞🤞(can’t cross fingers enough for all the symptoms it didn’t give the ignorant medics) I was never served up HRT in hospital and nor did it make it to the discharge notes.

Please do not stop without advice.

I was very happy on hrt, after a few tries to get the right combo. Then the progesterone part after a few years was making me really down. Moved to a Mirena and gel, the Mirena suited me, a slow continuous dose worked, no longer felt suicidal a week/10 days a month. Also testosterone which brought the libido back with a roar.

unfortunately after about 12 months of that combo the breast clinic suggested I come off it all (I could leave the Mirena in). I was 54, had been on hrt for about 10 years, and distraught at the thought, but they said give it a go and balance up how badly the symptoms come back.

my symptoms had been the rage, exhaustion, crying, anxiety, night sweats like waterfalls. Anyway, it’s been fine, the odd hot flush and occasional night sweat. I still get tetchy but to be fair I always have. I just went cold Turkey.

I took my patch off on Saturday just gone and nothing much has happened yet! I was using Evorel 50 Conti but cutting it in half so was only getting a low dose. I just don’t get on with progesterone. Hoping the old symptoms don’t come back but will give it a couple of months and see how I feel.

I’m thinking about coming off as I think the gel is causing me severe fatigue

I stopped HRT last August when I started suffering from diarrhoea, after being on it since the February. I was already unsure if I wanted to stay on HRT anyway as my period cramps, hormonal headaches and sore boobs were awful, so much worse than not being on it!! It was the progesterone causing all the issues, I experienced, including the diarrhoea! I didn't suffer any issues stopping HRT at all.

I stopped as it was just making me (even) fatter and I seem to be slightly allergic to the patches. So itchy! I’ve come off of it before for medical tests and I absolutely know it makes me put on half a stone and I’m fed up with it - and the huge boobs. I’ve tried the gel and utrogestan before and didn’t like that either. I’m about 2 months in and feeling fine so far. Weight is slowly dropping off.

The huge boobs is what’s doing my head in and it’s so uncomfortable, especially in this heat!

Yep, I stopped patched, pessary and tablets 6 weeks ago. I was fed up of bleeding on and off , despite trying different combinations. I'm just using Estriol cream topically now. I feel a but more anxious, but I don't feel bloated any longer and definitely have more energy. I think it helped me for a year or so, but no longer.

Never going to stop taking my HRT!!

I would have stopped if they'd made me keep using utrogestan. I switched to a mirena and my life changed significantly for the better. I can have 100mcg of oestrogen and no utrogestan.

I now no longer have periods/bloating/large swollen breasts/mood swings/suicidal thoughts/anxiety or might sweats.

I will never stop this by choice.

@Ilovelowry that’s great to hear! How was it having the mirena fitted?

I mean not pleasant, and I had to do it twice in 6 months as the nurse dislodged the first one at my smear test. But it's literally a few minutes of toe wriggling and it's done.

@Newgolddream70 I've never had kids - I'm not sure if that made a difference - but I fainted when I had it fitted and when I have it out it's got to be a the hospital as that will probably happen again. I was in a ward for a few hours till they made sure I was OK - and I was out of action for a couple of days. But it wasn't really painful!

The fainting is due to the aggravation of the vagal nerve (my second was fitted by a private GP so much more time to chat and make sure i was OK!)

I stopped a few months ago, no adverse effects. I am post hysterectomy so it was oestrogen and testosterone only.

I felt it was harder to lose weight when I was taking it and I really felt improving my diet and exercising regularly as well as changing my job did as much if not more than HRT did.

I’ve no regrets coming off it, I feel fine.

I’m still a bit traumatised after a painful HyCoSy which made me feel faint and upset, so it’s put me off having a mirena. I also had my waters broken when I had DS and that hurt too!