Utrogestan tablet reviews
4.2
58 reviews
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
Method
Continuous or Cyclical
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.
Progesterone only
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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