I hope someone on here can help me figure this out….
My back story: A huge amount of stress and covid in 2020/2021 caused me to crash last September. I could barely function. After many tests coming back clear (heart/lungs/bloods etc.) I started HRT in October. Oestrodose was given to me and at one pump I was a changed woman. The Utrogestan didn’t work orally but vaginally was ok for part of the cycle. Next prescription was Oestrogel and a lot of my symptoms came back so in Jan this year I was moved onto Lenzetto and told to work up from one pump to possibly 3. After a few weeks a lot of my symptoms settled on two pumps but there were still some there so I upped to three pumps and after 10 days I crashed again. i was in all sorts of trouble, as if all of my peri symptoms had come crashing down on me at once and magnetised by a million. The meno specialist said she thought I was on too little and maybe the spray had stopped working or was faulty. She advised me to go up to 4 sprays and if that made things worse, to go down to two. In my mind I was wondering if it was actually too much Oestrogen rather than too little so I went down to two sprays and after a week things started to settle…until I neared the end of the bottle again and the symptoms all started to come back until I opened a new spray and things settled down again. My trust in the Lenzetto had gone after this happening again and the consultant agreed I should change and try Sandrena. Then I got covid again. Pretty badly (not hospitalised) and was in bed for 10 days.
After a couple of weeks I started the Sandrena - 1 x 0.5mg sachet a day. The consultant said to start on that and work up to two sachets as she thinks I’m on a low dose even though my last bloods were 500 (I think) which isn’t too low as far as I’m aware.
Where I’m at today is that I have been housebound since catching covid. The gp thinks its covid recovery but now I feel I am crashing again like before with the oestrogen issues. I am on 1 sachet and an extra dot and my heart is racing, I’m jittery, full of panic, my head feels like it might explode, I feel constantly sick, had migraines and I’m totally on edge again. I can’t drive, I can’t look after my son, I can barely feed myself. I cannot go on like this and I am pretty sure it’s the Sandrena causing this now (5 weeks post covid) but I don’t know if it’s because I’m having too much or too little and no one else seems to be able to tell me either.
What should I do? Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I’m at my wits end. My son shouted that he wants to see a therapist at the weekend and I’m so worried about him now but not in a position to be able to help or do anything or think straight without it causing huge panic.
Sorry for the long post but I really don’t know where to turn. I’m a single parent, no support, his father lives in Canada most of the time but isn’t any help when he’s here anyway. Family don’t help me. Friends are all busy etc.