Thanks Ladybt28
I'm not on any heart of water tablets. The fluid comes and goes with the mood swings. My atrial fibrillation is random and not continuous. My BP has gone up over the past few years and I'm on Amlopidine for it now, but it seems OK on the meds. I daren't measure it today though, I'm very stressed over the palpitations that are still going on and of course the blood pressure cuff will show up the wobbly beat and that will stress me even more.
The only thing I've done differently today is to take that extra pump. Dr Louise is lovely, but I fear I won't get the blood results and her thoughts before Christmas now, which is why I took an extra pump today as I've been so tired and sad this week.
She did tell me off when it came to light that I had been spreading my gel on and letting it dry. She said we should rub it in well as if it were a cream and that I may not have been getting the full benefit of the gel I have been using. So perhaps the change to rubbing it in and increasing the dose all within a week was too much. I'd best drop back down to 3.5/4 pumps a day I think, and wait and see.
I don't know what causes the water retention but I fear it's the Utrogestan. When I first tried it by mouth a few years back the first morning I felt OK but tired, the second I felt desperately depressed and the third I was tearing at my skin because I itched unbearably all over. I never took anymore after that and the symptoms went. Now I take it vaginally. When I did 1 capsule every other night I was OK, occasional itching on my arms but not much. I had to move up to every night because I was bleeding all the time. Since then I have become more physically exhausted, more bloated and certainly more water retention. I hadn't really put 2 and 2 together.
In the past I used a progesterone cream (compounded) with a similar oestrogen cream. I was told I could use as much of the progesterone cream as I wanted and to apply throughout the day if I needed a boost. I did. I filled with water and couldn't hardly pee. I was so exhausted I had to do a little bit of a job and sit for half an hour, try again, repeat. Hm, I wonder...