HRT - being nil by mouth in hospital

[DerekJ]

My partner is on HRT. She wears an oestrogen patch and takes an utrogestan pill for the progestrone. She has had a bad accident and is now in hospital nil by mouth. She cannot take the utrogestan and the doctors have said it can't be administered through the feeding tube. They seem clueless about what to do. She is still wearing the patches. Does anyone know a way round this or if it is ok to be off the utrogestan for a length of time until she can eat and drink again? Thank you.

My reply was to the poster telling us it can't be crushed.

Hopefully @DerekJ has found a way forward for his partner.

I think you're possibly over estimating what a dr or a pharmacist will know on this @MissMoneyFairy if you think they will sanction vaginal use (if that's what you mean by 'sort it out'.)

It's an off-licence use which means it's only done if a Dr is willing to do that and most drs who are not gynaecologists/HRT specialists won' t have a clue.

There are a lot of women who use it vaginally after hearing it can be done that way (in Europe as the norm) but some of their GPs refuse to sanction it - but it's hardly something they can check up on.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8e5y4e83lo
Be wary of advice on here.

Well then you need to explain this clearly to here treating doctors

and let them confer with colleagues if they don’t feel sufficiently knowledgeable to advise themselves

Yay. BBC and NHS
yeah listen to the two least competent organisation on earth 🙄

well i would rather listen to the British Menopause Society who have removed her accreditation as a Menopause specialist.

bruffin, that's what I understood as well! A very small risk (dvt and so on) is still a risk

@bruffin thanks so much for sharing this and I had no idea.