Hi, I am new to website but started on this road back in Feb 2018 when diagnosed by doctor. I was 51 then, was prescribed Elleste which did improve my wellbeing after 2 months, but then Brexit happened and was told this HRT was hard to come by now and needed to swap. Doctor put me on Femostan, it seemed to work ok but I did have occasional night sweats which I could cope with as long as my mood swings were under control but my periods were still very heavy and some months I could not do swimming or gym due to the heavy flow. Then Jan/Feb 2021 my mood swings, sleepless nights, sweats started to creep back and hubby said you have to go see doc, you cannot go on like this. I had a new doctor by then and their attitude was great, so they decided to try me on the gel and tablet combination. So far I have been on this for 7 weeks, mood swings have improved but had a good few weeks of crying for nothing really, sweats were not every night. But my period, well the first month I had a period after 15 days which should have happened after taking the 25th pill and then I had another period when I started taking the pills again after the 3 day break! I thought I would wait until the next month to see if this happened again and what a surprise, day 17 I started bleeding again not heavy as of yet but I do not know what to do now. I read some of the posts on here about this method of HRT saying it will take a while for it to work. The doctor said this method should stop my periods completely but now I am having double trouble hahahaha.
I have a long way to go before it all stops, as only 54. I try and be up beat about it as best I can but the crying outbursts is quite embarrassing especially when we are out in public. Any advice or just to chat to someone would be good, as there is only so much my hubby can help with hahaha.
Thank you