Hello all,
I am looking for some advice please, if any of you other ladies have had the same issues as me?
I have been on Evorel Sequi patches for 5 months and every month the first two weeks of using the patch (oestrogen only) was OK, although I was feeling exhausted most of the time, my periods were light (they used to be so bad and heavy that I couldn't leave the house) my mood swings went (almost to the point I was just feeling pretty numb about everything - up or down!) I could sleep and just coped with everything much better. The last two weeks of every month when the Progesterone was thrown into the mix was hellish, agonising boobs, headaches, exhaustion, hazy, and my migraines that I have had all my life suddenly intensified, so much so that last month in the last week of my cycle and combined patches, I had 5 migraines with aura in 4 days... I was so ill.
I rang the Dr and her only suggestion was to go on to FemSeven Sequi as it is a different and perhaps more tolerable progesterone... unfortunately this is out of stock (apparently some back on the market this month?).
I just couldn't risk another month of migraines as it rendered me completely useless for a week.... my body just felt like I had too much of the extra hormones....
So, after much googling and agonising, this last cycle I have cut the Evorel in half to lower my dose of oestrogen and progesterone... I didn't want to stop cold turkey and I really want to try the femseven when it is available again... anyway, I feel much better, I have a lot more energy and touch wood no migraines so far. However, mid cycle, the day before I switched to the combined patch of oestrogen and progesterone I started bleeding quite heavily.
I know I have lowered the dose a lot but why would I have a heavy bleed mid cycle, does anybody know? I was like clockwork every month before HRT.
Thank you so much if you have any advice, I would really appreciate it, my Dr, although lovely, is quite clueless about it all!
SWJ