Been told by NHS consultant to increase my estrogen intake to Evorel200 - I thought that was a really really high level, the patches only go up to 100. And at the same time I'm not taking any progesterone at all, to try and determine whether my persistent symptoms of acute anxiety are down to progesterone intolerance. Hasn't made any difference at all apart from constant light bleeding, in fact I'm finding that I can't cope with estrogen above about 125, I start feeling a horrible kind of agitated depression which is exhausting and miserable.
What's really confusing me is that blood tests have shown that on Evorel 100 my estrogen level remains around 1000 pmol, which is a pretty high level. And yet two different specialists tell me that they think it's highly unlikely that this dose is keeping my level that high (after chemo I'm not producing any hormones of my own). I really don't know what to do now - do I stick with the estrogen increase although it makes me feel awful, do I restart utrogestan or do I just give up on the whole HRT thing and hope that time just sorts everything out? The way things are at the moment I can't actually live a life - anxiety and depression rule the roost.
