Hello everyone, joined today as wanted to ask for some advice. I am a 52 year old lady, and last year was getting night sweats, aching joints, bad memory etc to the extent i was finding work hard to deal with. Was still having regular periods. Started on hrt last December, evorel conti patches. Everything was good, symptoms disppeared and only drawback was heavy bleeding. For the last few months I have had bad fluid retention and very tired when taking the patches with the progesterone. Been reading a lot on the internet and so confused. Have an appointment with my GP next week but get the impression she is not interested and only gave me the patches because I asked for them. Not sure what to do. Should I perservere? Change the progesterone? Give up and see what happens?Do I need a higher does of oestrogen?