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[Machair]

Thank you ER. Just off to a Geocaching Event so hopefully that will lift the spirits!

The fact is I was expecting it in a way, as I know you said your periods stopped almost when the mucus did. I haven't reached that point yet, but the mucus is less apparent and certainly not as much as it was. There is hope!

[Elizabethrose]

Hi Sparkle

If you're still doing your loading two weeks with the Vagifem you may find that you'll get a few side effects. I was told the body is 'getting used' to the new source of oestrogen and will adjust. Less is absorbed once the tissue is plumped up apparently. I found I had a few visual aura in the middle of the second week, a tiny fleck of brown spotting and a little pelvic ache. All urine leakage was stopped as the the urethral opening seemed 'plumped' too.

I swear the pollens around at the moment can trigger the 'heads' or migraine. There are masses of tree blossom pollens and spring flowering shrubs, it's almost overwhelming. I've had to keep my windows closed because our wisteria flowers are so abundant that it was affecting us all.

Keep going with the Vagifem, you'll probably find any side effects will calm soon. xx

[nearly50]

That's rubbish Machair, at least it is really light though. You all give me hope that there is an end to all this!

Since I had my dramatic hot flush a couple of weeks ago I've been constantly burning up and had no stomach pain at all which is fantastic. Bit of a headache today but it is a full moon and every single person I've been in contact with today has been acting crazy so it could be down to that. 

[Elizabethrose]

I don't know what you mean by 'heavier low down', what, as a side effect?

I don't suffer from hay fever as such, the pollens are just a migraine/headache trigger for me. I can sometimes get wheezy too. I need a gas mask to run the front path gauntlet at the moment!

Oh we had a fab time thank you. She's aboard the Eurostar as we speak! It was a full on week, we crammed in so much and had a really lovely time. Heads have been brilliant so no interruptions at all. Had dinner with a specialist friend this week who had a 'told you so' expression all evening. x

[nearly50]

I don't know what you mean by 'heavier low down', what, as a side effect?

Sounds like the way fibroids feel. Feels like pressure to me and that's when I imagine them growing.

[nearly50]

I'm sure they're not growing sparkle, it is just my imagination. Sorry to put that in your head!

[Elizabethrose]

Sparkle, I'm no expert but I am sure that just those few Vagifem could not be responsible for fibroid growth. The trouble is it is terribly difficult sometimes to work out where abdominal discomfort is coming from. Wind, diarrhoea, bloating, period cramps, ovulation twinges can all be very similar on occasions.

It is too easy to suspect that any problems we are suddenly experiencing are due to new medications/treatments etc. Give the Vagifem a chance to work for you. If after a couple of months you still feel anxious about it then stop it and try something else. xx

[Elizabethrose]

Sparkle, I've had what feels like ovary twinges for about two weeks now but I've also got mild diarrhoea so I'm sure it must be that. It's very easy for the mind to work overtime especially as you were very worried/anxious to start the stuff. I swore that I would never take HRT again after my dreadful experience. However, needs must and this dosage is so minute. We can't let VA deteriorate, some poor ladies experience and condition on here is horrific. This one we have to fight! Feel better xxx

[Elizabethrose]

Sorry if I was lecturing! x

[Elizabethrose]

 

[Elizabethrose]

Machair, how are you doing? Has all fizzled out? x

[Machair]

Hello ER,

 Thank you so much for asking me and Happy Easter- hope you are having a lovely time.Just been down to Wales to see my daughter on the farm so had a lovely time feeding lambs.

Well it is still going on but very light. First day was a couple of pink spots and now it is brown- only need panty liner.
Hope this is the last one- suppose it depends If I get any more stretchy mucus after it finishes, as I know your bleeding episodes stopped after the secretions did. Having gone 3 months I was hopeful, but I knew it probably wasn't the last as I was still making oestrogen in between. The only thing is the secretions have been thinner, less egg white so maybe the levels are lowering, and I have less nipple soreness and breast tenderness overall.

How are you feeling?

[nearly50]

Sounds promising, think it is fairly safe to say 2017 will be the year you're all finally through it

I still have a burning sensation on neck and face on and off which I'm taking as a good sign. Eating the very last hot cross buns of the year today and going to be sensible from now on - think I've made a bit too much of eating whatever I like without stomach pain!

Have a lovely Easter everyone

[nearly50]

I have avoided mini eggs - I know how that ends.... I'm either feast or famine, can go weeks without eating any rubbish and then go mad.

[Elizabethrose]

Hi Machair, I agree with the others, that sounds very promising. You may continue having oestrogen surges during the early years after your FMP, I think that's the norm, but these periods sound like they'll end soon. Glad you're feeling ok x

Ladies I look like a little Buddha at the moment, I cannot shift the weight around my trunk. The exact same thing happened when I was on HRT years ago (though it was a lot then!), as soon as I stopped it, the weight fell away. Even the minutest dose in the Vagifem seems to have done it. Bizarre! We've done a lot of entertaining recently so it's easy to be naughty but overall I've cut down dramatically. I've got to clamp down further I think to make a difference. I feel like King Canute!

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend xxx