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[Babspiglet]

Hello ladies, can anyone offer advice please? I’m just three weeks into my regime of Evorel patches and Utrogestan 100g which I’m already taking vaginally every other night after having sought guidance here. Thing is I just feel so sedated still! I don’t mind if I’m still in the settling in stage. I feel weird everyday and can feel that the HRT is doing something. Question is, how long is it likely to be before I feel some real benefit? I’m taking HRT for low energy and some anxiety. I can feel it calming me, I think. Is there another progestogen that’s less sedating that I could ask for? I’m planning to give this initial regime a couple of months until reviewing with specialist as don’t want to give up before I’ve begun. Did any of you manage to get out of this coma like phase and move on to improve? I think I may be having some testosterone thrown into the mix at a later date. x

[CLKD]

MayB put the product names into the search box to see if threads pop up?  Make notes ;-)

It won't be a quick fix because usually the body doesn't get where it is suddenly.  Hormones 

[Babspiglet]

Thanks CLKD.  Seems like it’s a bit of a waiting game then. I think I’ll just have to relax a bit and try my hardest to stop dwelling on how I’m feeling all the time. I think I’m often my own worst enemy! ‘All good things come to she who waits’ is the mantra which I shall try to adopt from now on! x

[CLKD]

Hormones 

I'm fine unless my gut begins to roll then my brain immediately begins the 'what if' scenarios.   . Then anxiety rises. 

I can relax fine when there's no physicality involved.  Half a day at a time?

[Babspiglet]

CLKD, half a day at a time sounds more than reasonable! At the moment with all these Covid restrictions on activities you’d think it would give me licence to enjoy not planning ahead/socialising/going into town etc, etc. Instead of which I get gloomy thinking about how I can’t do this, can’t do that. If I could just get a handle on just ‘being in the moment’ and enjoy being in a state of ‘nothing-ness’ I’d do better. I have tried meditation but I’m just too impatient! x

[CLKD]

Well - we aren't imprisoned.  My FinL was a captive under the Japanese so when I feel restless I try to imagine ........ they had no choices.  [long story short].  Lockdown was the best thing that happened to me.  I didn't have to make plans.  As we have moved back into 'normality' my anxiety rises as we are busy again. 

With regards shopping I make a list and trot to/from the village shop masked of course.  If we need items not available in the village it's a fortnightly trip to a supermarket, again with a list.  I could have tidied the house from top to bottom, hey ho  the weather was too nice 2 stay inside.

Make a list of hobbies? Books you haven't had time to read?  Those new curtains you were going to make ........ 'me' time is important ;-).

[Babspiglet]

Well, not sure about curtains-never was much of a seamstress! Would love to get lost in a good novel. It’s odd-I can read any amount of articles on line no problem, but reading a book strangely seems to require a level of stamina that I don’t possess at the moment. Even pursuing a relaxing pastime like that seems beyond me and I loved to read. I get energy from being outside and walking. Being at home is difficult for me-I’m listless and demotivated! If I had energy again I would draw and paint, garden...but it’ll all have to wait a while. x

[Paz23]

A lot of ladies have a Mirena cool fitted for the progesterone because while it protects your uterus the hormone doesn’t actually enter your blood stream in the same way that other progesterone HRT does and so doesn’t have such bad side effects. It also means you can play around a bit with your oestrogen dose without altering prog levels.
Having my first one fitted was a doddle, no pain, periods stopped pretty much straight away, I loved it. However having one taken out and another fitted straight away was awful, so bad I swore I’d never have another fitted ever again. So not sure what I’ll do when my current one needs changing. 

[Babspiglet]

Thank you Paz, that’s helpful. Do you think it’s suitable for someone like me who last had a period nearly four years ago? I remember when I had my last cervical smear test it was very painful as was quite dry then, as now. I expect it would hurt? x