Thank you hurdity. Thank you kilted.thank you Alice. I'm even worse today. I stopped the utro last night so I guess I'm going to have a withdrawal. I've had to email c and w.
I had thought the same hurdity that I will be able to firt 7 days at 200mg in.
A surgical meno site I found likens the first year or so after BSO to being much more akin to peri menopause than to a post menopausal state. A kind of pseudo peri. The body is adjusting, the "background" non ovarian hormones and steroids are going haywire. But with natural meno it's a gradual process whereas in surgical it's got to do a lot of catching up. So a sort of "pseudo peri" storm ensues. So even small HRT changes can have a big impact during this time.
My docs have seemed universally reluctant to prescribe an alternative to utrogestan (until now) and so have kept advising me to play around with it. Conti, 12 day, 7 day, back to conti. It doesnt make for balancing a body already in the middle of a hormonal storm. Add to that the way they have handled my E . Chopping and changing. Getting me to the highest dose on something and then with each change making me drop down by a significant amount initially for 6 weeks to see if I absorb better. I havent absorbed better once and have had to increase each time. So the result is these constant 6 week periods of nosediving , getting back to an ,albeit low, plateau then nosediving again. creating a rollercoaster in an already unstable environment. Looking back I've had zero hope of getting any sort of stability like that. So at the end of a year or so I'm in no better position to get a feel for how my body has adjusted itself naturally to ovary removal or of what my real needs are in terms of replacement
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