Thank you dancing girl and Vicky.
Dancing girl - my case is complicated by my heart problem. In the pill-free week, my heart problem got worse so the reason for conti patches, was not to have any rise and fall in hormones to upset my heart. Since stopping the OCP, it's made everything worse, so worse heart problem plus headaches and stomach (womb?) cramps, and generally feeling unwell. I ideally want a constant flow of hormones to keep everything steady.
Evorel Conti 50 are the lowest dose patches you can get yes? If you half, or quarter them, is there a risk if not getting enough progesterone to protect the womb?
After the initial panic of coming off the Pill and being synthetic hormone-free for the first time in my adult life, I've come round to the fact that it's probably a good idea. I had a hepatic adenoma, which went after dropping to a lower dose OCP. I'm also very 'natural' in other areas of my life being clean eating and into complementary therapies. If it wasn't for the heart problem, I'd be happy to wing it and see what my natural hormones do, but already struggling with being chronically ill, fatigued and in pain, I'm struggling to add another de-stabilizing and uncontrollable factor to the mix!
Why wasn't I born a man!?!