Morning
I know this an old thread, but the whole green and orange square thing passed me by at the time.
I have had a month of feeling terrible, unable to sleep, low mood, tearful, hair falling out (I also have iron issues, upped the iron, thought it was that), really really tired, impaired cognition etc. I have my E gel privately, and sometimes have all my repeats all at once, and keep my stockpile in a box, I always try to have more than I need as I live in fear of running out, what with supply issues. I confess I just wang it in there and grab one when I need one.
Last night I was lying in bed too hot (I never get flushes, been on E since mid peri), raging vaginal soreness, miserable, tearful, restless. And had a lightbulb moment. I've just done two bottles back to back of the old shape - green lid, green square. I've binned the remainder this morning and used a new cylinder one with the white lid and I'm sitting here typing with that slight rushy jittery feeling of a big influx of E that you get when you start E or increase the dose.
I am convinced that there is defo something up with that batch. And thinking back I had a period last year when blood tests were showing that I was suddenly low E, and then by summer it was right up in the range again. In hindsight, I am sure that the same happened then.
I've got one green square green lid left and it's going in the bin! I'm behind on work, been feeling utterly rubbish, not doing that to myself again!
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