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[Tempest]

Phew! Mrs.B, its a SCORCHER!!! Taaps Aff day to be sure, and tomorow is going to be even hotter! I may have to ditch my goonie all together!  xxxxx

I'm hoping some proper estradiol will help the healing better for you, Annie! It helps build collagen of course. Also, if things have got dryer in general, it could cause sinus pressure I think, maybe secretions aren't as free flowing and it's causing the bunged feeling.  - every part of me is like the blinkin' Sahara nowadays, its vile!

I was also reading how low estrogen actually changes the shape of the eyeball (!) - good grief!

I'm so glad you got a wee nap though - if I ever manage a nap in the day, I know I will have cracked it! Sleep is now 4 hours if I'm lucky. And with this heat.....As Mrs. B says, Scotland isn't used to this at all! We'll all be boiled like lobsters!  xxxxx

[Annie0710]

I've not been out in the sun apart from visiting my daughter briefly today but I've loved it xx

[edelweiss]

Hello hello everyone!

I'm here, just about, although I am totally convinced Mother Nature has turned against me and wants to desiccate me. Every bit of me is hot/dry/sore/aching/breaking off and/or sagging. My upper arm skin looks like a 100 year old tortoise's neck - one that's neglected its skin care routine, that is. My thighs are the colour and consistency of porridge in a freezer bag. And my Elizabeth Regina could be confused with the Gobi desert  - except the Gobi desert has more visitors (and more camels, to be fair).

Little ray of sunshine, aren't I?

Hope everyone else is or will be well and happy soon. I keep dreaming about that day. Love to all, you are all so amazing, brave and generous. Thank you very, very much for helping me through this rough patch (understatement of the century) and giving so much support and kindness when I needed it most. I hope I can do the same for others, as I feel I've taken much more than I have given.

Here's to happier, carefree days - we all deserve them so much! xxx

[Annie0710]

Oh nah nah nah nah

You've given and do give so much more than you give yourself credit for.  You're a trooper lady and we WILL do all we can to get you through this and out the other end so you're all healed

Xxxxxx

[Menomale]

MENOMALE!!!!!!! Wow, it's wonderful to hear from you! I'm so sorry your eyes are bothering you - I hope this is just another phase of menopause! Damn those flushes too! I've just had a thought as you're open to lots of things - do you have pycogenol in Brazil (French Maritime Bark)? Go and take a look at the research. You might be impressed! It is reported to not only be good for hot flushes, but has proven to perform well in treating eye conditions.

Just a thought!

Sending you biggest hugs, as always! xxxxx

Hi ladies!

Sorry for the absence, I'm definetely lazy these last couple of months... tired and helpless, but alive! Chinchilla (the cat) is monopolizing my free time lately...  only joy these days.

I hope you all are getting better or at least have some great days amongst the menopause nightmare.

Huge hugs to you all, dear ladies!
XXX

[Tempest]

For me personally Edelweiss, you have supported and helped me more than I can ever thank you for! You made it possible for me to make contact with Diane, and she's been an enormous help to me.

But hey, lassie - we need to support YOU and get you well again, as Annie says! Are you still on the Tibolone? Is it doing anything for you do you think, if so? I haven't forgotten about my info. on using prog. only to awaken receptors - I'm still sifting through research stuff and things.

Gobi desert here too - just seen a couple of vultures circling over my dessicating carcass, which is worrying...... I don't even want to talk about what's going on with mood either - up and down like a bedouin's tent flap.......

Sending you the biggest of hugs, from a Scotland that's more like the Sahara today (heat here is RIDICULOUS for this part of the world)! xxxxx

[Tempest]

Oh, and Annie - just heard from one of the ladies over at Hystersisters who contacted the chemist at Besins who make Estrogel. Each 1 pump dose DELIVERS 0.35mcg over 24 hours approx. depending a little on application/absorption. So now we know......xxxxx

[Annie0710]

Thanks Tempest, that's all I'm using right now, 1 pump and I didn't wake through a night sweat last night, not saying I didn't have one but it certainly didn't wake me x

[Tempest]

Hey, Menomale!!!!! Sending biggest hugs to you and Chinchilla from me and Haggis the Chinchilla who is an actual Chinchilla, not a cat. Except he thinks he's human. 🐭

Please don't be a stranger - we miss you!

Hugs!

xxxxx

[Menomale]

HELLO, dear Tempest,

I'm lurking around  I think of you everyday, but bad eyes are preventing me from computer screens and I'm afraid this has nothing to do with menopause, I was born with a lot of eye problems 

Chinchilla says hello to Haggis, the human chinchilla 

XXX

[Tempest]

Yay! Thats great news, Annie! I told you it starts working fairly quickly. 

I managed to sleep for 6 hours solid even in this heat! I put mine on in the evening though - I noted Cubagirl always used hers then and she had no problems (she used 2 pumps). She's an oopherectomy lady as you know, and told me yesterday on one of the threads that 50mcg patches were always too much for her. She now uses only a half of a 0.25mcg twice per week. I personally think we can't make enough of our own prog to offset the high estrogen doses. A lot of the ladies over at Hystersisters seem to do so much better on lower doses too. I think once you go over 50, that's when you need to add prog. Or else you end up a gibbering basket case.

Diane said that once she reached 75mcg, this was when she had to add Utrogestan. We learn as we go, don't we?


xxxxx

[Annie0710]

Hi Menomale ! Nice to see you back :-)

It's making me wary to use testosterone though on such a low oestrogen dose, decisions decisions ! X

[Tempest]

I know Abby uses Tostrim with her 37.5mcg patches under her Consultant's advice. Maybe ping her on FB and she can give you more info.? If you wanted to increase to 2 pumps in a couple of weeks, you could see how you go to be on the safe side? I know one of Studd's ladies was ok to use it with 2 pumps (I think it was Niamh). Abby added hers after being on the patch for a full month.

I would probably hold off for now as you probably have negligible E in your system. I know Warwick tested 'undetectable' for E just slightly after coming off Tibolone and changing to Angelique, but that's no real surprise as Tibolone doesn't register as estradiol on blood tests as of course it isn't estradiol! xxxxx

[Menomale]

Hi Annie !!! Nice to see you're getting rid of the night sweats, I'm still having 5-10 hot f******lushes night and day 

[Annie0710]

Thanks Tempest, I'll keep going with the 1 pump for a few days and see how I get on, then gradually increase by halves of necessary.  Then add T in later

Menomale, I'm not counting my chickens just yet ! Xx