Hi Lisa
So sorry you are still struggling. It sounds like you have been through the mill. I also can't understand why your surgeon didn't also remove your womb? How odd?
But like others I would strongly recommend that you give this form of HRT a minimum of 3 months. I completely understand your impatience. I know how awful the psychological symptoms of PMS/hormonal depression are, I really do. In the past I have done/said things which I am so embarrassed about, due to the PMS rage.
I am very impatient, and I just want HRT to work RIGHT NOW!!! I have suffered through 16 months of this already and I am sick to death of it. I have just finished my 5th week on HRT and I'm am still quite up and down. At the start of my HRT I had awful insomnia for a few days. Then I slept fine. Then my mood really dipped for several days, but then I was fine for a week. Then my withdrawl bleed came and my mood seriously dipped for 5 days. But since then I have enjoyed a very stable, 'good' two weeks...but then my mood seriously dipped again a couple of days ago. So you can see how up and down it can be.
My mood has improved again, but whether this is due to my increasing my oestrogen dose or whether it would have lifted again naturally, I simply don't know?
But last year I took Amitriptyline for 7 months, when my GP insisted I was just clinically depressed. It started to work 'a bit' within a week. But it certainly wasn't a smooth, straight forward increase. It was very stop/start. And, looking back it was AT LEAST three months before I felt 'reliably' better.
I think HRT must be just the same. So it's really worth persevering with it.
