Hi Kenny, you probably know progesterone increases body temperature, but the right amount of oestrogen should help to counter that effect. Many of us find we get quite strong side effects of one sort or another from Utrogestan
Hi everyone, thank you all so much for your helpful replies to both Kenny and me. Wrensong, I didn't know that progesterone increases body temperature- that might help explain why yesterday morning I felt that the sweating was actually a bit worse! I also felt a bit sort of 'hung over'... tired, bit groggy, headache. Not very pleasant, I hope that if the Utrogestan is causing that, it dies away soon. I never had any problems with the progestin that was in my Kliofem tablets, but that's an artificial version so maybe that's why.
Kenny and Gill67, I hope you don't mind if I reply to you both on here, your threads very similar!
I have never had hot flushes or night sweats either but I was plagued with day time sweating. Looking back, it started mid to late 30s and suddenly became much worst immediately post menopause.
I tried various forms of HRT but the only thing that worked was Oestrogel...
Anyone who has had this debilitating symptom will tell you that excessive menopausal sweating is a world away from normal sweating in hot weather. It's a vasomotor symptom that can only be resolved by using a highish dose of oestrogen.
I hope that helps.
Mary, thanks so much for this, your sweating issue is exactly the same as mine. It's so life-limiting. I avoid as many social occasions as I can, because people notice my sweaty face, wet hair etc. My glasses steam up, my clothes get damp and anything dark shows up huge damp patches across my chest and back. I look like ive just been running a 5k or something. If I have to go out I have to factor in about an extra half hour of 'getting ready' time, because even having a shower causes more sweating and I have to lie quietly on the bed with a fan on me to stop it so I can just get dressed!
It's so physically uncomfortable too, to be damp and sticky all the time, so now I just avoid doing as much as I can because I just want to be comfortable. But I can't just sit on the sofa for the rest of my life.
I'm 54 and I'm probably classed as post-menopausal, because I went onto sequential HRT (Trisequens) about 3 years ago because of the sweating, then after a year GP moved me to Kliofem continuous HRT, so I stopped having a bleed every month. KLiofem contains 2mg oestrogen and 1mg progestogen and I was fine on that until a few mnths ago when the sweating started to return. As you say, it's not related to the warm weather, I sweat heavily and constantly whatever the weather is like. Movement seems to cause it. I don't even feel hot most of the time, it's not like a hot flush. I just break out in sweat all over my face and torso and it'll continue until i sit down for a while.
I'm really hoping 4 pumps of oestrogel will be enough, as according to manufacturers leaflet, 4 pumps is equal to 5gm Estrogen, which is one more gram than I was getting on Kliofem. That one extra gram might be enough to stop the sweating. It's very encouraging that you say that a high dose of oestrogen can resolve it. I know the Kliofem stopped it, so I'm assuming that my own oestrogen levels have fallen to the point that I need more than 2mg estrogen to stop the sweating. At least the gel is easily altered to find the right dose.
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