I am considering bcp for my perimenopause symptoms as hrt doesn't fully control them. I have recently increased to 75mg evorel sequi to help but I still get the jitters in the morning and the anxiety. Maybe these symptoms are here to stay as I was told that "once anxious, always anxious". I have lost confidence in myself with all of the menopausal symptoms which hasn't helped. Anyway will the pill help rather than hrt? Does anyone have a link to the table showing oestrogen or progesterone dominance? I am now 42 so a spring chicken really!
hi Chocolate
I went through a few different hrt's, the first one was femoston, and as it didn't work, even on the strongest dose, I went back after reading on here, and asked my doc for patches. My IBS meant that I was not absorbing them.
I waited about a year on the femoston, just because I was so discouraged and dissappointed, and the doctor was quite snappy with me.
'dr Currie said that I was not absorbing the femoston, otherwise I would have just sticked to that. The reason I could not absorb the feemoston, was because, my oestrogen stopped being produced as much in my body, and another gp explained that lack of oestrogen can cause IBS, and I had been getting what I later found out was IBS from this forum, but I just put it down to a drug that I was taking a long time to wean myself off, because I put the diarrhoe and the sweats etc down to my doctor weaning me off the med.
Body wise, I finally feel ok, no sweats, no anxiety, no flushing, because as funny as hot flushes seem to people, for me they were very unfunny. I even read on here about an abdeenian woman sitting in her garden, mid winter, in a nightie.
Please could you explain what you mean when you say your HRT isn't doing enough?
I was on 75mcg and it wasn't doing anything, so I was worried I will have to give up hrt, but after trying the evorel 100, everything got better, except the anxiety and catastrophising, plus the depression.
I didn't want the evorel sequi, as it has norethisterone in, and while this stuff is ok for most, having read about the mood negative effects, I went, armed with knowledge, and asked for evorel solo and utrogestan.
I had right trouble with a few doctors, I got an email from Dr currie, which only one good doctor would read. She agreed to start me on 50mcg and said that she would put it up, if after a 3mth trial, it didnt work
Well, it worked a bit, but not enough, so i tried 75mcg for three months and while that worked better than the 50, I was still needing my fan, sweating, and wakign up in a bad mood.
I then tried the evorel 100 with the utrogestan, (the utro had also been a hassle for me to get from doctors as they had never heard of it.)
These 100 patches really started working after a few weeks and i am flush free.
I do still get anxiety, but the clonidine should help that.
Also, I am still waiting for my ADHD assessment, and hopefully should get meds off that.
It's a long process sometims, and us women just want to put an end to our suffering.
So, for all of those women who are on hrt and it isn't doing enough, go up a higher dose, or maybe, change your delivery to the system, by getting gel. I think the gel allows you to have as high a dose as possible, if 100mcg patches don't even work, but I think they will, that extra 25mcg was all I needed.
Also make sure you get enough magnesium in your body by using differennt methods of delivery as well as oral. The oil has great reports on it.
I've even hear of women who say magnesium alone has taken their meno symptoms away.
