HRT Chronic Breast Pain - desperate

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I have always suffered with mastalgia pretty badly.

I started on Evoral Sequi, and the muscle pains were really bad for around 6 weeks. However the mastaglia on the Conti (progesterone and oestrogen) patch were truly horrific like 20 out of 10. Shooting pains that brought me to tears for 2 weeks solid and completely not something I can live even though I am used to being in pain 1-2 weeks per cycle pre HRT.

Has anyone else had this issue made worse by HRT and found a solution. It's 3 months on since speaking to the GP and they were going to contact gynae for advice, no menopause clinic in the county it's going to take a long time.

I'm restricted in what I can take and have issue with the mirena coil previously so that's is 99% not an option either.

Has anyone found how to take HRT of any form so that doesn't occur when it's something they have suffered with?

TIA

The type you are on is not 'progesterone' - it's a synthetic form which is a progestin.

You might do better on micronised progsterone (brand name is Utrogestan) and you'd need to use an estrogen-only patch with it, or estrogen gel.

Have you seen anyone about the pain and had meds or anything suggested for it?

I had similar pain on tablet hrt also tenderness. Mine got so bad had to come off it. After a break I went on Evoral Conti and seem ok on this. Take care

So glad I found this. I'm having the same thing. Initially taking the sequi was fine but over the last 3 months it's got worse and worse. I'm going to call my GP for a menopause check in. I'll let you know how I get on.