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[Pixielilac]

 After a long battle with my GP I got HRT but from another doctor when my GP was on holiday, I tried 2 hrt's then the other doctor put me on Femston conti 0.5/2.5mg in June this year I think it was.                                                         Long story short my GP wouldn't give me HRT, another doctor did then I saw a gynaecologist who wrote to my GP saying no reason for me not to have it.
 I am now on Femoston conti, was on 0.5/2.5mg but hot sweats returned, I saw the gynaecologist again and she increased the dose to 1/5mg.
 I took the higher dose for two weeks then went on holiday in September, I had been feeling quite down.
 When we arrived at the hotel we were 8 floors up and I looked over the balcony and said to my husband ‘if I jumped would it kill me straight away do you think?'
 I don't know where that came from, I think I was as shocked as he was then I spent most of the evening crying.
I just feel sort of ‘flat' is the only way I can describe it.
I don't think about jumping off balconies all the time, but sometimes I am sort of ok and a lot of the time I cry at anything, like if someone hasn't emptied the bin at home I feel like screaming but just mutter to myself that I'm the only one that knows how to empty a bin this house as no one else will do it and have a little cry.
 Could these feelings be down to the higher dose hrt?
I don't want to go back to my doctor as he will take me off it, he never wanted to give me hrt to start with as I have arthritis then I saw my arthritis specialist who told him I can have it then I had a bleed and he took me off it as he said ‘Well this is what happens when you put hormones back into your body' which is why I waited until he was out of the surgery and got an appointment with another doctor.

[Perinowpost]

Pixielilac I can see you've fought hard to get hrt, however, sometimes it can take several tries to get the right one, I know from experience.  Could you try to switch? The gels and patches are particularly good. Maybe go back to the sympathetic GP and request one of these. Type patches/gels into the search box and do your own research before you go.  I think it's worth persevering and good luck xx

[Pixielilac]

Thankyou for your reply, I will try to book in with the nice GP. xx

[Viwi]

Pixielilac - I felt like that on Evorel - wierd sense of humor - like my husb call it. Crying without reason, black and deep thoughts of dying. I thought that it was just me and summer ending... but from a month I changed for Estraderm and those stupid thoughts dissapeared - sure - I'm more tired but my legs don't sweel and my mood improved. To be honest I just found it out that it could be from patches - didn't know they can change mentality to this degree. But like Perinowpost wrote - try to talk it with GP - finding right HRT isn't easy. I hope you will feel better after changing. Don't give up - "who, if not us!"

[Pixielilac]

Thankyou for your reply, I am going to go back to the nice GP xx

[CLKD]

MayB keep a mood/food/symptom diary and take a list of symptoms with you.  Your GP should not be refusing you HRT - it's 'replacement' after all. 

Low mood can be hormonal.  How were you in your regular menstruating years?

[Pixielilac]

Thankyou for your reply.  I used to have bad PMT, mood swings but not tearful. I am going to start a diary, thankyou for that idea. xx

[CLKD]

National Association for pre-menstrual syndrome - NAPS - advised me to eat every 3 hours to ease PMT.  That's every 3 hours, 24/7!