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[R4CT0M]

Hi

I know we have touched on this briefly on other threads, but just want to get opinions together in one place

I have been using 1 vagifem twice a week as instructed... but GP said use more if needed.
I have had to use it each day this week so far.
I am wondering how people get on with 2 together a couple of times a week as opposed to 1 more often.  If you use 2 , how often do you use them and why does it benefit you better that way symptom wise?

Any advice appreciated, just trying to work out my pattern once and for all  
Thanks

Mony xx

[honeybun]

It used to be the standard dose was 25 used twice a week before that strength was discontinued.
It would make sense to me as more women had success with that dose to use two twice a week and one alone if you see what I mean. That would give the same amount as the original 2 x 25.
Then you would still be within safe limits.

Honeyb
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[R4CT0M]

thanks Honeyb

[Hurdity]

I'm not sure which would be more effective but as honeybun says if 25 mcg worked twice a week then 2 x 10 mcg twice a week probably would too. I think also it is a matter of preference - I mean would you want to be putting Vagifem in there 4 x per week (thinking of bedroom activities....)?

Hurdity x

edited to correct mistyped name!

[R4CT0M]

yep see what you mean Hurdity xx

[Tingly]

Having had some success with putting vagifem in lower 1/3 ( this helped with the burning) tomorrow i am gonna do two shots -one high, one low

Theres quite a thread on this sort of stuff in private lives too.

Luv ting
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[R4CT0M]

haha you're mixing it up a bit aren't you Tingly
look forward to hearing your results

[Tingly]

Yes...i'm just a wild thing!, ( its about the height of my excitement these days...have gone a bit Roy Cropper!)

Am gonna call it the "grand old duke of york method" ---as in, "when they were up they were up etc!, !"😃😃😃😃

[R4CT0M]

 

[scriv]

Hi....

Yes, I use 2 together twice a week for same reasons as expressed by Honeybun - and 1 in between if I feel I need it.

I was very happy using  1 x 25mcg twice a week before Vagifem messed about with all this and 2x10 is more like this old dose.

I find a little oestrogen gets into my system and helps with the flushes and general well being which I welcome as I have no other HRT and am 60 and had very early natural menopause. I have also had a hysterectomy, so have no uterus to worry about.

I find this works better than 4 or 5 times a week - maybe a higher level is reached by the 'blast' of 20mcg and is  maintained by the twice weekly dose? I feel more like I used to feel on the 25mcg when I do it this way.

Oh why oh why did they change it?!! I am so cross!

[andius]

Well, when you are desperate for relief, you will try anything to find a regimen that works!

The most vagifem I have been on routinely was 3x/weekly which is 30 (10mcg ones).  I got a bad rash on my buttocks that pretty much lasted that whole time...only thing else I was taking was Calcium and Vit D during that time which I have taken for a long time with no problems.  Now on patch with 2x 10 vagifem.
I'm a little afraid to up it again. If I took 2 of them twice weekly that would be 40, more than I have ever had, except on the loading phase. 

A

[scriv]

More than that is probably too much for you, Andius. You are after all on a HRT patch as well. I'm not.

[R4CT0M]

that's interesting Scriv about it helping with the flashes etc...  I've never had 25mg so nothing to compare to... I'm like you though never used anything else, in fact I never knew I had gone through the menopause with being on the mini pill and my periods stopping years ago, which I suppose some would say lucky and it is in some ways, but now finding if it hadn't all been masked, I would have been able to deal with and understand things sooner.  I don't think it's coincidence that as soon as I stop mini pill my prolapse immediately gets worse, even if it was a progesterone only pill  

Mony xx

[scriv]

Yes, I know that the higher dose lets some into my system and I want to keep hold of it, lol!