Hi alibeau
Just read through this thread and I’ve been the same. Been in 3 pumps Oestrogel and Utrogestan for 12 nights for 18 months now and recently I’ve been having high anxiety and low mood, and terrible insomnia during the Oestrogel only weeks.
What is the amber Oestrogel?
Hi,
Last December I went through a rough spell whilst not knowing about the Amber/Green Oestrogel situation.
You can read up on here but basically there are two different batches of Oestrogel being manufactured. One has an amber square on the bottle, one has a green square on the bottle.
During my last rough spell, I was shocked when I popped on here and read up about the different batches as this seemed to tie in with my symptoms worsening whilst using the green square bottles.
I used Amber for a while, felt better but then my pharmacy started to supply the green square again.
I felt I might have become too fixated with the whole Amber vs Green situation and so when I started to feel rough again in August I increased my Oestrogel (green) to 3 1/2 pumps from 3.
This seemed to help a little but then gradually I have felt worse and worse. At my lowest, fatigued, really quite down. I didn’t want to put it down to the green/Amber situ.
Perhaps it’s all in my mind but I did try a blind test earlier this year and that suggested that I felt better on the Amber square also.
Sorry for waffling, I will need to ask my pharmacy if they can supply Amber rather than green to give myself a good stretch of time on Amber again but feel like a bit of a fool asking given that I believe the two gels are identical (I think)…..
Hope this makes sense, my brain is still a little addled
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