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[Jillyboo]

Two nights back on the amber and I can already feel the heat at night starting to ease off. I've been on HRT for about 15 yrs now and have taken periodic breaks just to see if anything has changed. It takes my body 3 weeks almost to the day to register oestrogen loss with night sweats and flushing and the same 3 weeks to get back into my comfort zone when I restart! That's what started the alarm bells ringing when I was still feeling just as hot after 2 weeks. Anyway onwards and upwards as they say.

[Kathleen]

Hello Jillyboo.


I don't use Oestrogel these days so I can't comment on the Amber/Green debate but I was interested in your experience.

 I came off all HRT in 2019 and after about two weeks of no Oestrogen I began to have vaginal atrophy symptoms for the first time. Recently when I reduced Sandrena gel from the equivalent of 50mcg to 25mcg I noticed the dryness starting after two weeks. An increase back to 50mcg resolved the problem two weeks later.

It's nice to have some sort of predictability amidst all the hormonal chaos!

Wishing you well.

K.

[Jillyboo]

I'm quite convinced that I shall need to remain on HRT for the rest of my days if I'm to maintain a good quality of life. I watched the doctor on Instagram which someone left a link to above and she mentioned that its her 'flushers' who seem to register any slight change in oestrogen levels first (they were the women who started telling her their gel wasn't working any more when the 'squares' issue was first raised). I guess it proved quite useful as she was then able to alert all her patients who were using Oestrogel!  I count myself lucky to be going through this in 2023 and not decades ago. All the females on my mother's side of the family suffered horribly with sweats and flushing (I'm convinced there's a genetic component but that's for another discussion!)

[Hurdity]

I think we should all be grateful that we can get HRT, and estrogel  and it is freely available on NHS (or at very low cost of prescrption charges), to help us through this difficult time, without worrying about coloured squares! If you really think it makes a difference then adjust the quantity you use according to the squares - or as alibeau said early on in this thread, go "blind" so you don't know, or change to patches which are very consistent.....

Hurdity x

[Jillyboo]

Pippa 52 - how interesting that you had been using gel for such a long time then began to have absorption issues. Did your meno specialist have any suggestions as to why that might have happened? Glad to hear you've found a solution anyway.