Utrogestan tablet reviews

4.2

58 reviews

Utrogestan is a brand of micronised progesterone which is body identical and often one of the first progesterones you will be offered as part of HRT. It has a neutral breast cancer risk for up to 5 years (yay!) but some people find it causes more irregular bleeding while using HRT. Utrogestan is usually taken on an empty stomach and at night as it makes you drowsy. Taking it on a full stomach isn't a problem, it just increases absorption of the drug and may increase the side effects. If you get side effects such as mood change, bloating or breast tenderness, the tablet can be inserted into the vagina or anus as an off licence use - please discuss this with your healthcare professional before trying.

Route

Tablet by mouth or Insert into the vagina

Frequency

Daily for continuous use or the first 12-14 days of each calendar month for cyclical use

Provides womb protection?

Yes

Provides contraception?

No

Similarity to own hormones

Body identical

Effect on blood clot risk

None

Effect on breast cancer risk

Neutral for 5 years

Available on PPC?

Yes

Utrogestan tablet

Method

Continuous HRT is where you take the same dose of both oestrogen and progesterone every day. It is used when your periods have stopped or when you have used cyclical HRT for more than 1 year. The aim of continuous HRT is to prevent bleeding.
Cyclical HRT is where you take breaks from the progesterone part of HRT, usually each month. You will usually have a withdrawal bleed around the time the progesterone has stopped. Some methods of HRT have this break built in already.
If you have a uterus and are using oestrogen HRT then you will need to take a form of progesterone to protect the womb lining (endometrium) from overgrowing as this can increase the risk of endometrial cancer. This progesterone is called endometrial protection.

Hormonal ingredients

Anti-androgenic progesterone

Similar alternatives

Brands that have close or exactly the same hormonal ingredients

Reviews

4.2

58 reviews

HRT Review
Used for more than 12 months
54 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  29th Jul 24

Reduced anxiety, depression and irregular heart rate

HRT used

Evorel 50

2

Symptoms

Irritability

23

Side effects

Bloating

5

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for 6 to 12 months
47 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  17th Jul 24

Was doing well on HRT however when my mood felt flat I upped my dose of estrogel and had bad vertigo. This could have been completely unreleased however I panicked and came off HRT. Then had an avalanche of peri symptoms so am considering going back on it with a lower dose. The worst symptoms without the hrt are the anxiety, brain fog, broken sleep, mood wings and more recently migraines. Never suffered with headaches before.

HRT used

Oestrogel 0.06%

1

Symptoms

Hot flushes, sweating

15

Side effects

Bloating

3

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for more than 12 months
54 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  3rd Jul 24

It has improved symptoms overall however they occasionally creep back

HRT used

Estradot 75

1

Symptoms

Hot flushes, sweating

15

Side effects

Irregular bleeding

4

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for 6 to 12 months
52 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  30th Jun 24

Generally good. Only change is no more heart flutters.

HRT used

Oestrogel 0.06%

2

Symptoms

Anxiety

15

Side effects

Other

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for more than 12 months
66 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  27th Jun 24

It changed my life. It got rid of symotoms I didn't even know were due to oestrogen deficiency

HRT used

Oestrogel 0.06%

1

Symptoms

Hot flushes, sweating

10

Side effects

Other

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for more than 12 months
59 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  25th Jun 24

Overall positive. I could never get the patches to stick so wasn’t absorbing. Switched to gel & much prefer it. For me the constant hot flushes, night sweats with anxiety attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts, self harming & uncontrollable rage has all stopped with HRT. The problem with HRT for me is the constant post meno bleeding & migraine attacks. To be fair, the migraine attacks started at age 51 before I started HRT.

HRT used

Oestrogel 0.06%

1

Symptoms

Hot flushes, sweating

17

Side effects

Irregular bleeding

6

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for 6 to 12 months
54 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  25th Jun 24

I changed dosage of progesterone to daily once my periods started to become much lighter and less frequent. Only issue I have (which I just deal with!) is occasionally the patch leaves my skin red raw and tender.

HRT used

Evorel 75

1

Symptoms

Hot flushes, sweating

23

Side effects

Tiredness

1

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for 3 to 6 months
41 years old
🇨🇮 Ireland
  •  18th Jun 24

My experience with HRT has been very positive. I’ve been on it for approx 10 months. I started on 25mcg estradot patches and 100mg utrogestan for 14 days of my cycle. I gave this 3 months, and on my review the doctor felt I should increase to 5mcg patches and 200mg utrogestan. I definitely felt an improvement on the higher dose, but after another 3 months or so, I felt another increase was worth trying. Since Feb ‘24, I’ve been on 75mg patches and 300mg utrogestan. I am feeling the best I’ve felt in a long time. HRT is not magic, but it helps you to feel stable - more like yourself so you have the ability to do other things alongside the HRT to feel better, e.g. keep fit, eat healthier, communicate with friends & family etc

HRT used

Estradot 75

1

Symptoms

Irritability

12

Side effects

Bloating

3

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for less than 3 months
52 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  4th Jun 24

My journey with HRT overall has not been great, I have battled with doctors for years, I kept saying I was perimenopausal and doctors just ignored me! I believe I started my peri menopausal journey at about of 37yrs old when I started noticing changes in me, I was just told by doctors that I was too young to go on hrt and basically go away, basically I was living on 3-4hrs sleep every night I was exhausted! Following the covid pandemic I decided to go down the private route, I was instantly given hrt and straight away I managed to get some sleep, the brain fog slowly started to ease! I was on a different dosage to begin with, 4 pumps of oestrogel and one Utrogestan tablet but due to the changes in recent guidelines (April’24) I have had to reduce the number of pumps of oestrogel from 4 pumps to 3 pumps and have also been given Gepretix capsules instead of utrogestan this wasn’t on your list of progesterone! I asked my doctor if I could go on testosterone as my libido had diminished! Doctor said I needed to go down the private route, they don’t prescribe it, so I went and paid for a blood test and guess what I needed testosterone, what is the point of nhs doctors if they aren’t doing their job and looking after their patients… I was lucky and could afford to go private but many people can’t…! Nhs doctors need to get up to speed and help women out, I battled for 13 years and finally got it through my own means! We need HRT… simples!!!

HRT used

Oestrogel 0.06%

2

Symptoms

Irritability

20

Side effects

Irregular bleeding

5

0 helpful

HRT Review
Used for more than 12 months
54 years old
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
  •  3rd Jun 24

This combination of HRT really works for me. It has dealt with all my general menopausal symptoms and since separating the oestrogen/progesterone elements of my HRT and adding in testosterone, I've seen an improvement in sleep, libido and brain fog. On the advice of my doctor I did increase the Oestrogen to 4 pumps with 2 Utrogestan daily but this instantly gave me incredibly sore boobs, so I immediately went back to 3 pumps of Oestrogen with 1 Utrogestan which seems to work well for me. The Testogel deals with my brain fog although could be tweaked further for libido - I am working with my doctor on that. I haven't experienced any side effects from this HRT.

HRT used

Oestrogel 0.06%

2

Symptoms

Hot flushes, sweating

14

Side effects

Tiredness

1

0 helpful

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