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[SandyS]

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone can help me with this horrendous problem of sweating!I know the weather at the moment isn't helping but this has been happening in winter too.
I start sweating within about 5 mins of starting walking each morning with my dog even when it's cold. It pours down my back, under my boobs and my hair also becomes damp. It's all so embarrassing.
I have recently switched my tablet oestrogen to sandrena gel, was on 2mg per day and have inc to 3 last couple weeks but doesn't seem to have made any difference. Do I need more? I take 200 utrogestan also.
I'm awaiting referral to menopause clinic but told it could take weeks!
Any advice would be great

[Jari]

Hi Sandy, it's a typical menopause symptom. You're not alone.
Best to keep notes about what's going on.
If you take the natural route, you'll be able to gauge what's going on and your symptoms will gradually decrease.
If you choose the hrt route, this will mask your symptoms and you will not know what's going on until you come off it.
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[CLKD]

HRT may help you get through the symptoms!  Hormone 'replacement' therapy [replacement is often forgotten ;-) ]

Keep a mood/food/symptom diary to chart progress.

[SandyS]

I already take HRT
I was asking if I can increase oestrogen will that help?

[Jari]

Is the 3mg of gel two pumps a day?
How often do you take utrogestan?
Do you have any other symptoms with this amount?
How long have you been taking hrt in total?
Are you peri or post menopause?

[SandyS]

My oestrogen is in 1mg sachets
Utrogestan is taken every evening
I have been on hrt since 2014 firstly femoston 2/10
Then it was amended to elleste solo 2mg with 200 utrogestan about 2years ago.
I recently asked for gel as I thought it might help with migraines. Only 3 weeks ago, and I have increased to 3 x 1mg sachets each morning.
Other symptoms are weight gain, lack of motivation, generally feeling flat, increase bladder and decreased bowel . And breathless quite quickly too.
All the symptoms have been ongoing for around 2 years now and I'm getting very frustrated and fed up with it all.

[Jari]

Hi Sandy, I had very bad breathlessness with hrt aswell.

If you've been on it 6 years, would you come off it? It could be causing you these troubles?

What stage of menopause are you at?

That dose of utrogestan sounds high? Are you post meno?

[SandyS]

May sound daft but really no sure!
I was just starting to get irregular period when starting hrt and on femoston was having regular bleed but once they switch me to elleste and utrogestan the bleed stopped straight away. Which is what dr was expecting.
That was 2 years ago now.

I am quite worried to come off hrt altogether as I couldn't cope with anything worse than I have now.
I did try reducing oestrogen around year ago but made me irritable and disturbed sleep

[Sgtvhilts]

It helped me- but I am very naughty and use 2mg of Femeston and 100mcg patch !!!! Which I think is about 6mgs of Oestrogen!!!! I am planning to reduce the patch one the 2 mgs dose kicks in properly, but only to 50mcg.
Night sweats are so much better and don't particularly sweat much in the day.
My current battle is is with GP and wretched meno clinic who want me to take more progesterone, but are not moaning about the high Oestrogen. I cannot tolerate utrogestan makes me sick.
Try it see what happens, but I am prepared to take consequences of my action👌

[Jari]

Sandy, there's a chance you may be over natural menopause symptoms and the hrt is too much for your body.

You could start by reducing it all by half over the next 3 months and see how it is?

[Jari]

....and also change from 200 utrogestan to 100.. ?!

[onion relish]

I suffer with this, too.

I'm on about 3 pumps of gel and 2.5mg of Provera (which I'm waiting to see if I can change).

I've always been a sweater (not very ladylike), but menopause sweating is extreme even for me. I've started to smell sweaty, too 

I've recently started using Odaban spray on my forehead, armpits, cleavage and underboob area (damned large breasts that have always been a literal and otherwise pain), and it works.

I have MS and the slightest heat and sweating drains me utterly (anyone remember the deflating lady ad for Complan? That's me in the heat even in winter). Just reducing the underboob sweating has a marked difference in my energy and the lack of cleavage sweating (side-sleeper unfortunately) in the night makes a difference to the neck rash I was having. Not having to mop my forehead is a relief, too.

I'm not keen on messing with nature like this but needs must and I don't seem to have sprouted excess sweat pumps anywhere else on my body.

If you decide to use it follow the instructions (though I don't wash it off in the morning) and don't try to apply it every night or you'll get a weird itch. It goes away if you don't apply so often, though.

[Hels]

I have experienced excessive sweating too which meant I couldn't use HRT patches as they just slipped off!! and after ruling out adrenal issues I was put on gabapentin and it has been great. I'm now trying other HRT to manage the symptoms but am not having much luck 😟 I'd not had a period for three years but since starting these tablets it has been constant and very heavy. Am hoping GP can help when I can get an appointment!

[SandyS]

So, I might increase oestrogen to 4sachets and decrease utrogestan to 100
Will look to buy the odaban and give that a go too, thanks 😀

[Sammiejane]

Hi all my body is weird as I find the more estrogen I have the more I sweat

When I had hysterectomy and ovaries removed 5 yrs ago I went through a stage of sweating but by 4 th year had stopped I'm guessing because my estrogen dropped lower now I'm taking estrogen only hrt it's worse again also I've just changed to a patch Estradot 75 as wasn't obsorbing the gel but don't feel great pelvic pain and sweating more the 50 though I didn't think was enough and I find I have heavy arms whereby when I used gel on my legs didn't get this oh and headaches to I think I may have to drop to 50 I think my body got used to low estrogen and so now get just making me worse and hair started shedding feet clammy sweating under boob groin and armpits it horrible