clare663, I don't have any advice for you but wanted to say that I ripped my patch off at first too! First time I put it on in the evening, woke up the next morning feeling really weird, lasted til lunchtime and ripped it off. About a month later tried again and all went fine. Then, a few months later, went to increase the dose, applied the patch and ripped it off and went back to the lower dose after 24 hours. Again, gave it a few days, tried the higher dose again and have been doing well on it since. In those first few months I was very up and down. One day fine, the next day awful, and sometimes changing by the hour. Some of us are very sensitive to the hormones. It does level out.