I change my 75mg Evorel patches every Monday morning and Thursday afternoon. Applied my patch Monday morning as usual, and I know it was still there on Tuesday 6pm ish!
Had a brilliant sleep Tuesday night and woke up feeling fine on Wednesday, but had a very brief "drunkish" feeling, mid morning. As the day went on, I felt hotter and hotter. No matter what I did, I couldn't cool down. I had an appointment with a gastroenterolgist the same afternoon and felt embarassed that I had sweat pouring down the side of my face at each side by my ears, nice!
The following morning, woke up feeling normal, got myself and the kids ready as normal and went for my bus to work. On way to my bus, I began feeling breathless and I felt that my legs were aching. Got on the bus, and then began feeling so hot, took my coat off, then began feeling dizzy, sick, sweating, disorientated, etc. I felt that awful, I began to panick that I had taken 2 of my AD's instead of 1! I began considering turning around and going straight back home, but decided it would be better to be at work around people. Got off the bus, then started feeling really flat, as though something was dampening me down, morbid horrible thoughts followed.
At this point, I was worried and petrified that I was returning to my crisis stage of 2 years ago.
I got to work - told my work colleague who told me to eat something and take a break.
Aprroximately an hour later, I came round a bit after having lots of water to drink.
I went to the toilet - remembered it was Thursday, so patch changing day, put my hand down to check it....no patch!
I went into the mirrored area of the work toilets to check if I was looking in the wrong place, no patch!
Then the penny dropped - my funny turn was a hot flush/adrenaline surge, caused by lack of oestrogen!
I can't believe that in the space of 24 hours - the loss of oestrogen affected me so much. For the rest of yesterday, I felt shaky, tearful and shaken up. However, as the afternoon approached - the sweating stopped.
I read of others on here who have stopped taking patches and have not noticed any difference.
At 75mg, I've never really had any relief from the flushes and sweats, so now realise that I may need to increase again.
I had turns like that every single day 2 years ago for 3 months, there's no wonder I felt severely depressed as I had no idea what was happenning to me.
Just wanted to share this really - probably for my own benefit more than anything. For some of us, this hormonal change can be a living hell.