Hi PeriWhat?!
Great thread, thank you for sharing. I'm in the exact same spot as you, working through month 2 of Evorel sequi. I switched to this from Femoston 2/10, just trialling to see if patches suit better than the tablets as I was starting to get more headaches.
I think I noticed mood swings too, definitely in month 2. But like you say, there is so much going on in life that it's hard to pin it down to it being because of the HRT! Did you get any queasiness?I had this more in month 1 but it seems to have settled a bit in month 2. With Femoston my pack change day was a Thursday, and you could guarantee my bleed would start Friday night/Saturday morning. Proper full-on. So I was surprised to start a "weak" period on the Tuesday before as well...and you're right, it did seem to rev up a bit as the days went on, although I don't think it was as much as on Femoston. Hopefully it will settle down.
I'm glad to say that it has reduced the headaches, if I get them they are not quite as bad. It doesn't seem to control the dry "bits" as much as before, but I have a stock of Vagifem if need be.
I think the worst thing about the patches are the patches themselves? Not sure about you, but I am not always certain they feel very stuck, yet when it comes to removal - OW!! Picks up every bit of colour from your knickers so you have a horrid black sticky outline
I saw a tip about using oil to remove which is helping though.
Hope you're still feeling good x