As your patch is oestrogen only you could try cutting a piece off and see what happens. My anxiety was caused by oestrogen deficiency but too much and too little oestrogen can produce very similar symptoms. Presumably you've checked the dose really is equivalent? You may well absorb differently but what you're experiencing seems a bit unusual.
Hi Sheila and thanks for your reply.
In what way is my experience unusual?
I'm confused that lack of oestrogen can both cause anxiety and alleviate it, I thought it was the sedating progesterone that alleviated anxiety.
I believed one pump gel to be 25mcg patch and 2 pumps (what I used) to be 50mcg equivalent, is this not so.
I get you about absorption.
I think I chose the patch, not only because you only need to remember it twice a week but also because it delivered a consistent amount of oestrogen.
Now that you have said that your anxiety was caused by oestrogen deficiency, I am nervous of becoming more anxious and negative if I cut a bit off.
I don't mean to dismiss your suggestion, it's just that today has been spoilt by this low mood.
On Thursday night I was singing, my mood generally improves just in time for bed, which is inconvenient.