When did you move on to continuous HRT?

[MrsSmorrebrod]

Ever so slightly embarassed not to have understood how my own body works... but here goes: I'm curious about when you switched from sequential to continuous hrt? I'm 51 and have been on evorel sequi for a couple of years. Just had a review where my GP asked if I still have periods to which I replied yes because I do... or so I thought. I have now been reading about this and realise that what I'm having is probably 'just' withdrawal bleeds, and for all I know my natural periods may have stopped but how do I know... like an idiot I've been waiting for the damn things to stop by themselves. So, having now realised that, from what I can read, it seems that around 51/52 most GPs will make the assumption that it is now safe to shift to continuous and be rid of periods altogether. For my recent review there was a suggestion to stop taking HRT altogether to see but I rejected that because I'm concerned my mental health will return to where it was before I started taking HRT to begin with. I'm supposed to go back for another review after I have taken my current evorel 50/prosgesterone regime for 3 months. Anyway, what do you know?

I can only speak for myself and found it triggered some symptoms that were annoying.

Not everyone is the same. If you find it suits you, that's fine.

Long term use is associated with a higher rate of breast cancer than sequential or estrogen-only HRT.

To be fair, those stats apply to the synthetic types of progesterone as micronised progesterone was not included in any studies.

I can fully understand you. I started hrt at 42 and I am 49 now. My gyn says that I can take cyclical hrt for one more year. He suggest me to take Livial next year.

56 and just been switched over. The gynae department were surprised I was on sequi as I haven’t had periods for 2/3 years and raised it with my GP.