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[Vicky81]

Hi all,

After consulting with my Consultant, he has mentioned that i could benefit from trying he contraceptive pill (Zoely)

Just wanted some advice as whilst on the patches from 19th April, up until Monday (when i took my last 50 patch off for good - granted as you know, i did go up and down on the doses) am still feeling heavy headed, slightly dizzy, and most of all- feeling out of it, like not with it at all/dream-like state (which isn't great whilst at work). Is this normal? As it has really got me worried as i feel like i am on planet zog, not in tune with my colleagues or rest of the world.

Please, kind advice/experience needed as close to tears at work here... xxx

[CrispyChick]

It'll take a good few days, I'm sure Vicky.

Fwiw, I think the pill might suit you better. Adding in all that extra estrogen whilst your own is surging up and down in peri I can see would be chaotic. It certainly didn't suit me. It poisoned me.

The pill on the other hand is already balanced estrogen /prog and will take over your own cycle. Hopefully that will work well for you at this stage.

Stay strong.

But... Please give the pill the full 3 months. I didn't find one to suit in the end, but the best fitting one did calm down after 3 months. Xx,

[Vicky81]

Aww Crispy thanks for being so kind. Yes i will give it the three months (unless i feel like keeling over!)

Which pill worked you in the end? xxx

[CrispyChick]

None of them I'm afraid.

The best out of a bad bunch was the levongestral prog one (I forget the name. Common one). The least estrogenic. I couldnt seen to tolerate high estrogen any more.

I never got to try zoley or qlaira. I'm hoping it does you well.

I'm no expert, but from all my reading and trials I'd think the pill is a better option in peri when trying to override your cycle, rather than high dose estrogen... Which only supplements your own. 

When do you start?

[Vicky81]

Wow, thanks for that. I started yesterday xxx

[VanillaLover]

Hi, good luck ! I wish I could take something like Zoely/Qlaira, I think it’s the fluctuations that are the worst for me. Sadly I can’t take oral contraceptives due to migraines. But hey ho.

I do wonder sometimes if the patches are making me worse when my own oestrogen is probably all over the shop  ….but there definitely have been major benefits such as no more palpitations and better quality sleep. So I’m sticking as I am for now.

Fingers crossed for you

[Vicky81]

hi Vanilla! Thank you for the lovely message.

Aww glad the patches have helped somewhat....keep going and let me know! xx

[Pippa52]

Really feel for you. I’ve had to stop the Everol  patch because
They just didn’t suit me and
Gave me the worst migraines I’ve ever had ….the menopause consultant has transferred me onto Estradot patches which I started today. I totally empathise with all the symptoms you mention I have been feeling just the same. Hope so much you feel lots better soon sending hugs xx

[Vicky81]

Awww thanks pippa....let me know how you get on with edtrodot xxxx

[Vicky81]

Pippa I've private messaged you xxx

[Pippa52]

will read it now x

[joziel]

My doctor says that Zoely is a pill she often uses in peri-menopause and it suits a lot of peri-menopausal women because it is quite high in estrogen for a birth control pill. (The prob with a lot of other pills is they have much less estrogen.) And also that the progesterone in it is quite closely related to natural progesterone, although it isn't the body identical one, it's much closer than many others.

I'd be interested to know how you do with it.

[Vicky81]

Hi joziel - oohh interesting! Maybe its me...but I thought zoely had lower oestrogen in it?, which actually made me think "is this going to be right 4 me?" As not much oestrogen.....but if that's what your doctor said...xxxx

[Gilla999]

It has only 1.5mg of estrogen... when you compare that to the amount of Estrogen we take as part HRT it is nothing (and why it didnt work for me personally). The primary part of Zoely is the Progesterone....

Other contraceptivr Pills also have a lower "number" of estrogen but the difference is they contain synthetic forms of estrogen so much stronger (which isn't the case with Zoely and what makes it so attractive and novel, the estrogen used in it is the same natural type as in transdermal HRT)

[CrispyChick]

But then Vicky... You're not getting on with high dose estrogen. Gilla, for the most part is.

I didn't.

Peri is a time of great fluctuations. It may well be for you. We're all different