If you remember I recently posted that it felt like my HRT had stopped working. Felt ravenously hungry but also nauseous. Sore gums and croaky voice. Really nasty anxiety, horrible bleak mood, very agitated etc. Just nasty.
Then I made the connection that I'd recently started using a new rich shower cream with added oils and I was suspicious that it was leaving a residue on my skin and stopping me absorbing my Estrogel.
So, on Friday I thoroughly exfoliated my upper arms and shoulders (where I apply the gel) and showered with just plain soap. Did the same yesterday, but felt no better. This morning I shaved my upper arms thinking it might help to remove blocked skin and scrubbed them with Fairy Liquid.
Well, hallelujah, within an hour of applying Estrogel I felt my mood shift and the anxiety disappeared. Within 2 hours I felt back to normal.
So, a lesson learned and hopefully this might help other users of Estrogel to be wary of their shower creams and any lotions.
But, it also brings it home to me HOW MUCH my body NEEDS a high dose of oestrogen. And it breaks my heart that so many women are suffering needlessly and horrifically through the peri menopause because they are being denied HRT by ignorant GPs. It is exactly like denying insulin to a diabetic, or denying painkillers to someone in great pain.
It's such a crime
