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[SandJ]

My menopause was over some years ago -  I started HRT in 2017, taking 2-3 pumps estrogel and one micronised progesterone.

Recently I started having night sweats, and then just feeling overheated, to hot flashes in the past 3 months. My serum oestradiol level was tested in early Jan at 700 pmol/L [114.0 - 332.0] and Serum progesterone level 4.7 nmol/L [13.1 - 46.3].

My GP suggested going from 3 to two pumps of Oestrogel, and doubling my dose of micronised progesterone. I had boods taken last week. Serum oestradiol level  is now 600 pmol/L and progesterone is 10.5, so some improvement, but I'm still getting hot flashes and am v. sensitive to being overheated (eg hot tea).

I'm wondering if others have had this situation. As a by-the-by, I had both ovaries out 3 weeks ago (plus ovarian cyst).

Thanks!

[Dandelion]

My menopause was over some years ago -  I started HRT in 2017, taking 2-3 pumps estrogel and one micronised progesterone.

Recently I started having night sweats, and then just feeling overheated, to hot flashes in the past 3 months. My serum oestradiol level was tested in early Jan at 700 pmol/L [114.0 - 332.0] and Serum progesterone level 4.7 nmol/L [13.1 - 46.3].

My GP suggested going from 3 to two pumps of Oestrogel, and doubling my dose of micronised progesterone. I had boods taken last week. Serum oestradiol level  is now 600 pmol/L and progesterone is 10.5, so some improvement, but I'm still getting hot flashes and am v. sensitive to being overheated (eg hot tea).

I'm wondering if others have had this situation. As a by-the-by, I had both ovaries out 3 weeks ago (plus ovarian cyst).

Thanks!

As you reduced from 3 pumps oestrogel to 2, could the lesser amount of oestrogen be causing the flushes?

I had to reduce my oestrogen due to bleeding. The flushes never came back, as I was further through menopause, but night sweats did, not a big problem, though, just wondering, as when I did have flushes years ago, increase in oestrogen cleared them.

[SandJ]

The flushes started to decrease in the last few weeks after reducing the pumps to 1