Evoral Conti made my hair loss even worse, very quickly, and my daughter lost hair on it too, but i wish it hadn't because it did seem to give me more energy
I did have a very upset stomach on it though for several days
Hi jaycee - we're talking about oestrogen only patches. Yes the combi ones will have different side effects due to the different progestogens, but that's not at issue...
hi hurdity
why do different women have different side effects then on different patches is this down to the obsorbtion x
i?m currently using gel and utrogestan and applying gel to my arms been on it 11 days now but i've noticed that i?m dryer down stairs and my bladder is irritated i know this is the progesterone effects but wondering whether i need to increase to 3 pumps gel or would it be better to change to a patch ?
i know it sounds strange but since applying gel to arms i feel very top heavy chest arms but have no bloating in stomach which i got when i applied to my thighs but then i guess progesterone could be helping with this x
Yes any differences likely due to absorption ie how much estradiol you get in your body.
this was why i was asking maybe patch would be better as in waist so hopefully it would target waist area first before circulating around the body i may be woffling rubbish here x lol 😆
Well I wouldn't dream of syaing anything like that sammiejane - but no - the site of application will not target a particular area and act on it in the way you are describing - well I'm not sure what you mean re target the waist area?. There is a concentration gradient away from the application site which goes through the skin into the bloodstream so it may be more concentrated immediately around the application site but is rapidly transported away. It may be transported laterally through the skin too but I don't think there is any evidence about this nor any effect on arms legs, etc - the effect on boobs is due to the systemic effect not the surface effect on the skin - although the advice is not to apply on or close to boobs due to the higher concentrations in the blood close to the application site.
Some women find flushes increase on progesterone - those on cyclical HRT sometimes find they need to increase their oestrogen dose during the combi phase - ie the progesterone sometimes reduces the beneficial effect of the oestrogen.
Good luck.
Hurdity x