Estriol 500 microgram pessary reviews

Challenging with bleeding despite being in chemical menopause and on GNRH analog Zolodex injections. The add back HRT still triggered bleeding which has been frustrating.

Improved vaginal dryness & itching. Made me less anxious

Due to being a poor absorber I have changed brand patch a few times and also had to increase dose to 175 over time. Still not right. My blood levels are only 181nm the vaginal dryness and loss of sex drive is since having the Merina fitted. Never suffered before that.

The pessary didn’t suit me, I had contestant stomach pain. I can’t take progesterone so have tried a different method now

Happy using it. Reduced hot sweats significantly. Had to stop due to pulmonary embolism.

Due to a mental breakdown my GP reluctantly prescribed me sequential HRT Elleste Duet even though my periods had stopped 18months previous. This relieved my hot flushes. I remained on this for 6years & started to have periods every 4 weeks. I was referred to a gynaecologist as I had thickening of the womb lining. I was advised I should be on continual HRT. I now have a mirena progesterone coil fitted and have patches changed twice a week & now feel so much better. Had I not started HRT my mental health would have declined.

Sadly very negative. The abnormal bleed meant I needed a scan, then an MRI which I found traumatic as I’m claustrophobic, then - because my fibroids meant they still couldn’t check my womb lining - a hysteroscopy. I have had one of these in outpatients before and it was extremely painful and traumatic so I had this hysteroscopy (after some unnecessary wrangling which delayed the protocol) under a general anaesthetic. I had initially told my GP if there was even a tiny risk of a bleed - as I am aware fibroids were fed by oestrogen - I would not take HRT. She insisted she had checked with a private ‘expert’ and that I would be ok. If I had known the repercussions - after telling her of my bleed within only a couple of months of starting HRT I was on the cancer fast-track route which was terrifying - I would never have taken it. This was also at the time when the NHS had run out of the HRT I was using and the alternatives had run out too. I had experienced an easing of anxiety on HRT pretty quickly but this situation, then the bleed, meant it escalated again and I came off. My GP gave little help on how to wean myself off and no follow-up advice or alternatives. So although there is probably a combination out there that would work for me I am not on it - it is a national scandal that women are being forced to go private to get the correction information and doses. Since that experience I have been asked several times if I have private healthcare, or been fobbed off with the number of a local private HRT specialist. The menopause affects half the population yet it’s pot luck whether your GP is at all interested in helping / has any useful or up to date knowledge. Why should women have to pay to get the advice and treatment they need? I have given up as I do not trust a GP to give me accurate advice and cannot afford to go private.

I’m very happy with my HRT, it’s easy to apply and makes a massive difference to my health and wellbeing and managing this stage of my life and I know it has potential health benefits too