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[Wendy worrier]

Hi I tried Femoston 1/10 a couple of years ago as I had missed a couple of periods and had hot sweats and anxious all the time and as I suffer from severe anxiety and depression and was told I was perimenopause I gave them a try but three weeks in and my anxiety was really bad so I stopped and just took Red Clover for sweats which is good.......anyway the past year has been awful and I had blood test for hormones which showed I was well into Menopause although Perimenopause as last period was March this year....... I can't go on like this my anxiety is through the roof I can't sleep I am on my knees......so I am going to phone my Dr on Monday and tell her I want to try hrt again my question is should I ask for Femoston or Elleste Duet and which causes less anxiety on the progesterone part..........Thankyou........WWxxxxxx

[dazned]

Generally people will say femoston has the kinder prog. Elleste has northisterone as the progesterone part and more people seem to struggle with it. However I was fine on it for 4/5 years.

[Wendy worrier]

Thankyou for getting back to me could you tell me if the progesterone part of Elleste Duet caused anxiety at all.......?.......Wxxxxx

[Roseneath]

I have just come off Ellestre Duet as it caused me terrible anxiety & heavy periods like I had never had before after taking it for around 6 weeks.  My doctor told me to give it 3 months and then check in with her. After 10 weeks I felt so awful / not myself  that i put a call in to another doctor who told me to come off it straight away. Only 2 days off but I don't have that terrible down feeling. Time will tell I guess. I still take 40mg proprananol at night for anxiety. It's intersting...all the speel on the Ellestre packaging says that it is for Hot Flushes . No mention of anxiety. The side effects do mention  a load of anxiety related things which mirrored my own experience. ( But then don't all medicines...!).

[dazned]

It didn't cause me any problems. As with all Hrt we all react differently,it's very much trial and error and what works for one won't necessarily work for another .

[Hurdity]

Hi Wendy worrier - you asked the same question on the All Things Menopause section and I've just answered it on there - didn't see this one - often forget to look at this section!

Hurdity x