Hi ladies,
Apologies for the late reply- had a manic few days at work.
Hi Sheila99 ,
my other symptoms such as brain fog seem to have increased on reduction of the estrogen, but the aches seem a little less now I have reduced again. I appear to have a little more energy on a slightly higher dose.
Although I forgot to take one of my HRT tablets the other night and felt crap all day ( I couldn't work out why ) until I took my next tablet and realised that I had not taken it the day before.
I think I am post menopause. Everytime I try to up my dose of HRT I get lots of watery discharge before during and after my bleed ( apologies TMI) and this causes me a lot of issues.
So although I feel I should be taking a higher dose, I am stuck where I am.
I take an extra half a tablet every other day of estrogen and that appears to work for me, as the 1/10 femosten is too low on its own. I would like to go transdermal eventually, but I am worried about changing the progesterone . Dydrogesterone works for me although not perfect. I think it is one of the safest progesterones. I wish we had a bit more choice in the UK . I am trying to work out whether I can substitute the half tablet for estrogen gel, but not sure what the dose would be or indeed if the NHS clinic would agree to it. I have thought of mixing and matching the estrogen under guidance and only taking the tablets ( with progesterone half the months as usual an substituting the estrogen tablets with gel the other half.
I have had my estrogen tested 3 times now over the years and it always seems to be about the same averaging from 295/ to 367pmol/l . So Unfortunately I do not think there is much to spare
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I am still not as hot, so defo the extra bit of estrogen that was the cause.
Hi Mandss - My heating bill will have gone up as I am cold again now!
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Any way enough rambling from me.
It is great to have an outlet to ruminate.
PMX