Hello, I’m new here and new to HRT (50mg Estradot and 200mg Utrogestan) I started around a week ago so haven’t yet had experience with the Utrogestan as I’m on a monthly cyclical regimen. I woke up this morning with the worse arthritic type pain I have ever experienced. It was total agony. I took a couple of pain killers and it eased pretty quickly especially as I started moving around however I still have some pain and stiffness in my joints. Whist on occasion (I don’t typically suffer from this type of pain) I’ve woken up feeling a little stiff, with a little pain, I’ve not experienced anything to this level and like I mentioned it only happened here and there. I’m wondering if it’s the Estrodot bc when I first started therapy I mistakenly put a patch on for 24hours and removed it (thinking I need only wear the patch 2 days out of 7) and when I woke up the next day I also had arthritic type pain but it went away. Now it seems I’ve put the patch back on and I am in pain again only worse. I realise this could be coincidence but I have a strong feeling it’s related. Anyone else experienced anything similar?
Also, I’m considering changing from a patch to the gel as my patch is a bit turned up at the corners and it’s not yet time to replace it. If you’re using gel form Eostrogen, how do you find it?
Another thing is, I have a bulky womb due to fibroids and am worried about bleeding as I’m already super heavy… I guess that’s for another post.
Thanks
Nickie