Hello MPisnotfun,
Sorry you are going through all this hell, unfortunately I have very similar experience, but started from smaller dose on evorel patches, I had a couple of great days, then it stopped helping me, I increased dose to 50 and then 75, it made me worse. I came off patches completely and started using gel instead, now I have the same “picture”, started from 25 made me feel great, then I started filling worse, so increased to 50 and it made me feel completely ill, now I am back to 25 again, still filling worse, than without using it. I was on the French version of gel at first and then changed fo UK version, but no difference and still filling bad. GP says I am too sensitive to oestrogen, have no idea what it really means.