54 y/o post menopausal for 2 years and started spotting

starrynight5626

Hi. I am on Climara estrogen patch and 200mg of progesterone, which I've been on for several months. I was on 100mg of progesterone, but my doctor upped it for me about 6 weeks ago. About a month ago I noticed very, very light pink, almost hard to see, spotting when I wiped. Within the next few days it remained the same but now with some dark brown blood but pretty much only showed on the tp when I wiped. I realized I had forgotten to put on a new patch when I took the old one off, which had been 2-3 days. I then put a new patch on and it seemed to fix the issue.

However 3 days ago I went to the bathroom and noticed there was just a small spot of blood on my underwear. I went to wipe and there was the dark brown blood back. It has been consistent for 3 days and now seems to be somewhat more towards pinkish/red and there is more this time than there was the first time last month. I also have this heavy feeling in my stomach like I used to get before I got my period.

I saw my doctor this morning and she says that it's most likely hormones causing this, but scheduled me for an endometrial biopsy next week and a pelvic ultrasound the following week.

Anyone else her eon HRT and had this breakthrough bleeding after menopause?

NoTimeForCancer

I can't comment re: the HRT but I wanted to say I am glad you told your doctor and they are investigating.

Please let us know what they find out and for sharing this all in case other women who are on, or started, HRT are curious.

starrynight5626

So it has been 11 days now of bleeding. It started dark brown then went to red and heavy, and for the past 3 days it's back to being dark brown and much lighter. I have an endo biopsy tomorrow and a pelvic scan next week. This seems to be following a pattern with my HRT so I am guessing that is where the bleeding is coming from, but we'll see what the results say.

I'm a little nervous about the biopsy but I told my doctor that I had a LEEP about 20 years ago and she said if you handled that ok then the biopsy won't be as bad.

NoTimeForCancer

https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/comment/1725888#Comment_1725888

Good luck tomorrow and let us know how it all goes.

starrynight5626

I went to get the biopsy this morning and turns out the doctor couldn't do it because my cervix was too tight. We had to reschedule for 2 weeks out and she's giving me misoprostal to take a few hours before to soften it up.