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Utrogestan 100mg
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- Alleviates menopausal symptoms
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Utrogestan 100mg Medical Information
The name of your medicine is Utrogestan 100mg Capsules.
Utrogestan contains a female hormone called progesterone and is to be used with another medicine called estrogen.
The combination of Utrogestan and estrogen belongs to a group of medicines called hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
Utrogestan in combination with an estrogen is used to reduce the symptoms of the menopause (change of life).
• It is used only in women who still have a womb (uterus). Utrogestan is not a contraceptive
How Utrogestan works
• As you get near to the menopause, the amount of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone in your body goes down.
• HRT replaces these hormones and helps reduce the symptoms of the menopause.
Why Utrogestan is taken with estrogen
• If your HRT contains only estrogen the lining of the womb could build up. This can cause problems.
• By taking Utrogestan as well, this makes you shed the womb lining. This prevents these problems happening.
• You might get some bleeding at the end of each month, rather like a period.
Taking this medicine
• Take this medicine by mouth.
• Swallow the capsule whole with a glass of water.
• Take this medicine at bedtime.
• Do not take this medicine with food.
• Take your estrogen HRT at the same time as Utrogestan.
How much to take
• Take two capsules at bedtime on days 15 to 26 of your 28- day cycle. Alternatively, 100 mg can be given at bedtime from Day 1 to Day 25 of each therapeutic cycle.
• You will usually have a few days withdrawal bleeding (like a period) after this time.
• Continue to take your estrogen HRT every day.
• If you have any problems with the withdrawal bleed, your doctor may change the way that you take Utrogestan. This will help to reduce the amount of withdrawal bleeding.
• Allergy to progesterone or any of the other ingredients of this medicine
• Unusual vaginal bleeding that has not been evaluated by the doctor
• Known or suspected tumour that is hormone sensitive
• Porphyria disorders (a group of inherited or acquired disorders of certain enzymes)
• History of blood clots in the legs, lungs, eyes or elsewhere in the body
• History of severe liver problems
• History of a miscarriage
Frequency not known (frequency cannot be estimated from the available data):
• Stomach pain
• Nausea (sickness in the stomach)
• Tiredness
• Headache
• Drowsiness
• Dizziness
• Vaginal bleeding
• Intense itching (pruritus)
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