Morning all
Hope you're all ok. I'm new and in a terrible place this morning. I'm under 40 and had to have my ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed in October for health risk reasons. This caused me to have a medical menopause which I was expecting. Straight after the op I was put straight onto Everol conti patch 50mg. My doctor told me I'd be getting back on my feet in 4 weeks or so post op. (Was laparscopic). 10 weeks later I had to go back to work as I ran out of sick pay and I've been bleeding, headaches, waking up in the night, upset and so so tired.
I got so fed up with being fobbed off that I demanded to see an HRT specialist. Took a month to get the appointment. I went for the appt yesterday. He was lovely, but told me I should never have been on the Evorel patch and that I will have to go on the Estoril duet tablets (which are the ones that mean you have a regular bleed). I will need to stay on these for a good chunk of time to stabilise all the symptoms.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased that I got to see this guy and got the advice but I am livid that the doc who did the original op was so laissez faire about this. And I'm livid with myself for not listening to myself and allowing myself to be fobbed off with "oh it's post operative, take it easy and you'll be fine".
So here I am, starting from blinking scratch again having woken up at 1am unable to sleep with a full day's work ahead of me. Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Phew, I feel better for that. Thank you.
KB xx