Hi
Thanks to everyone for welcoming me to the forum and for replying to previous posts.
Due to still having symptoms yesterday I thought I would increase my Evorel patch from 25mg to 25mg plus a 1/3 of the other half of the patch, so not a massive increase. However, I have had more hot flushes than normal and I feel irritable with a bit of what I would describe as period pain, even though I have the mirena coil, so I don't have periods. I know it's only been two days on the increase.......
Is this normal? Or is this too much oestrogen? Due to having the coil I don't know if I'm peri or menopausal, so I could still be producing my own oestrogen. I did try going straight to 50mg for 2 weeks after about 4 weeks on 25mg but my symptoms were much worse, so I dropped back to 25mg. But my skin has been really dry & spotty, still having hot flushes, anxiety is bad and sleep is not good. So I thought perhaps I needed a higher dose, but not so sure now. I'm tempted to take the extra little bit of patch off again now.
Has anyone else experienced the same? I have been on the patches for 9 weeks now. Thanks everyone xxx