Struggling with progesterone days- anyone else?

[Justnotsureaboutit2021]

I've realised that when I am in the progesterone phase of HRT (days 15-26) that I get a constant stomach pain. Was wondering if anyone else experienced this and if things calmed down in time. I started HRT in June so it's still early days I know. All fine with the oestrogel each day but I am now starting to dread the progesterone days as my stomach is so sensitive and just feels sore. thanks in advance x

I don’t get a sore stomach, but horrible eczema flares up on progesterone. I’m currently trying a combined oestrogen/progesterone HRT, it’s not perfect and the dry skin and eczema patches are still there (and itching drives me up the wall overnight), but not as unbearable as it was.
I’m undecided if it’s worth persevering with at the moment. Especially as it seems to be doing nothing for the insomnia and anxiety. My GP seems insistent I need the progesterone though.

Not going to lie, I avoided this as I’d heard this was very common side-effect, by swapping from taking the tablets orally to vaginally and I’ve had no side-effects at all

I’ve had crippling fatigue and feel low on the two weeks on utrogestan. I’m going to try taking them vaginally and see if it helps the side effects.

I'm on Elleste Duet and have been for about 2 years now.

The last 6 or 7 months I've had chronic constipation about 3 days in to the green tablets (not sure if that's the progesterone ones?) but I'm going to have to go back to my GP as it get worse every month and I sometimes get low moods on them too.

thanks for all the replies. Just to update that things have started to calm down a bit on the stomach pain front. It was getting so bad that I was contemplating giving it all up however, the anxiety that I have without HRT is truly awful so I'd prefer not to. I am due to restart progesterone next week so hoping that it doesn't bring back the stomach pain and that it was a one off whilst my body adjusts to it.