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[iworshipsatin.livejournal.com]

My doctor wants to give me premarin (ugh horse piss) to stop an 18 day period that has no signs of stopping. I don't know why but HRT scares me. Anyone here have any experience with it?
(I have PCOS so once my period gets going like this I have to get it stopped).

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[maidenmorticia.livejournal.com]

Not directly, but my mother is on HRT (premarin) post-hysterectomy (& has been for years and years) and she has not a single problem with it. I know, because everytime it's in the media that HRT is the devil itself, she calls me to give me her terribly frank opinion of how great HRT is & how these people are trying to ruin her by threatening it's existence... so shall I just say that I've heard her opinion on HRT a lot?

[iworshipsatin.livejournal.com]

My mom was on HRT (don't remember which) after her hysterectomy and she did not do well AT all. That is why I am so nervous.

[maidenmorticia.livejournal.com]

Then again... my Mum was on the original birth control pill in the 60s (you know, original high dose hormones...) and also likes to give me lectures on how bloody great the pill is, when I can't take the modern low dose ones (let alone the high dose!) because of the side effects I get...

SO my point is: while you are your mother's daughter... you may not react to medicines the same way she does.

If HRT is anything like my Pill experience, you won't know until you try.

(and yes, my Mother likes to lecture me frequently if you're wondering now! :-P )

[iworshipsatin.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to update you; the second day I started having vision disturbances so I stopped.

[maidenmorticia.livejournal.com]

heh, well... at least you know now.

xo M.

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

HRT has its fair share of risks and downsides (higher incidence of some kinds of cancer, etc), but for alot of women, it's a quality of life issue - they truly feel that their life with HRT is much better than it would be without, even accepting the risks that accompany it.

[jennifer0246.livejournal.com]

so she's trying to stop the bleeding, but what of the polyp/fibroid, cyst, etc? i keep seeing bits and pieces of your story but i'm missing details, catch me up!

[iworshipsatin.livejournal.com]

I got an u/s. No cysts were shown. I know I have a fibroid on my cervix but they say that shouldn't effect my period. I was so sure I had a cyst with the pain I was having. Maybe it was just Mittelschmerz which I have experienced before. However I have PCOS and once I start bleeding I can not stop on my own. My longest period was 6 months long and stopped with high doses of norethindrone and a 5 pill, 5 day BCP taper. She gave me SEVEN pills of Premarin so if I even do stop bleeding as soon as Istop the pills I am going to start again. If worse comes to worse my friend Nicole has extra Lupron that I can take. I know a pack of BCP will stop it but what the hell do I know? It's only my body I have taken care of for 26 years.