Progesterone - same day each month or day 15 of cycle no matter how short?

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So I started taking it on the 16th of June, day 15. 12 days means take last one tomorrow.
But now my period started yesterday, so should I count that as day one and start progesterone again on the 9th? Quite a short gap? Or just stick to 16th every month?

Hopeful bump!

Sorry to be annoying but bumping again!

I have no wisdom but I do have sympathy- I am currently having 14 day cycles and no idea what to do about my progesterone tablets!

Stick to the same day every month. I actually waited until a memorable date to start mine, and then stuck to that. My periods never aligned with progesterone throughout the three years I took it, I think my cycle was just too strong.

Thank you

I’m on continuous now but when I was on sequential, I always took it on day 15 of a 28-day cycle. Had some irregular bleeding for the first couple of months but then bleeding stopped completely. Started again now but that’s because I have a troublesome fibroid I may need to get sorted out.

I've just moved to daily, but before this week I took it days 1-14 of the month, nothing to do with cycle

How do you know when to move to daily?

I’ve been on daily ever since starting, as if not had a period for a year.

I take it from the 1st to 14th of the month, regardless of what my actual cycle is doing.

That's what the nurse told me to do and it's easy to remember at least.

I take mine on 15th to 26th of the month and my periods are usually as I finish the progesterone.

The daily use is for women who are post menopause.
Either over 54 or no natural period for 12 months.

This explains it- written by a menopause consultant.

www.menopausematters.co.uk/postmeno.php

Obviously, when you're on HRT you can't be sure your own periods have stopped because the bleed each month is a withdrawal bleed (not a period.)

But for women whose periods have become very infrequent, maybe in their early 50s, they can assume that they are post meno by 54 or a bit sooner.

There's a bit of a trend with some GPs to start women on continuous HRT too early and one of the risks with this is unscheduled bleeding (their own cycle breaks through) which means they may have to have investigations.

I'm not post menopause, I still have a period every 28 days. The doctor said as I had been on HRT for three years it was time to move to daily and my periods would stop within the year. At nearly 57 that's a relief