Hello ladies, I’m hoping you can help me.
I’m 47 and started my peri menopause at 40. I struggled for the first 2 years with blinding headaches, hot flushes, no sleep etc, but didn’t want to go down the HRT route due to the horror stories that were in the press. After 2 years I found myself breaking down in front of the GP asking for help as by that point I was physically and mentally exhausted.
I have tried a variety of different HRT over the last 5 years. Tablets gave me migraines so I then went onto patches but the sequi version made me bleed constantly. I had several investigations including a hysteroscopy and was given a mirena coil in 2019. This controlled the bleeding and I just had an Evorel patch for the oestrogen and it worked fine for me. Then there was a shortage of patches etc so I just stopped taking anything as I was fed up of everything constantly being out of stock.
I was off HRT for 13 months and my periods stopped 11 months ago. It was manageable for the first 8 months without any HRT but then it hit me again and the symptoms came back with a vengeance. I started on Evorel 50 again in January but I am now getting very bad headaches, fuzzy head, aching joints etc and I’m at my wits end. I’ve also started to have a little bleed again each month.
Can anyone advise whether the oestrogen dose needs to be increased or decreased?
Sorry for such a long thread but the last 7 years have been brutal and I hope I’m through the worst of this soon xx
