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[Spiderley13]

Evening Ladies,

Just wondered if anyone can advise , recently started my HRT journey and still early days but I suspect that Noriday ( mini pill ) is not helping my symptoms ! Has anyone experienced their anxiety increasing with this ? I was on Noriday about 4 years ago and didn’t have any issues so really confused ! When I started HRT the first two weeks seemed to get rid of the hot flashes / night sweats pretty quickly but then anxiety seemed to get worse after this point , then over the next few weeks the hot flushes crept back in , added a pump of gel and again this seemed to stop the flushes etc for a couple of weeks before they crept back and anxiety is now very high ! Does this sound like too much oestrogen or too much progesterone ?? I guess this is probably an unanswerable question as the symptoms seem to overlap so thinking I’m just wondering what others personal experiences where ??

Thanks so much

[sheila99]

Can you tell us exactly what you're on? Taking hrt alongside a bcp does seem to cause problems, you may be getting too much progesterone.

[Spiderley13]

Can you tell us exactly what you're on? Taking hrt alongside a bcp does seem to cause problems, you may be getting too much progesterone.

Hi , Sorry thanks for your reply , should have said I’m on conti patches , I’m actually booked in for mirena but I’m still not sure !! hoping this may help ? It’s hard to know which way to turn and it seems the only way is to try different things and see what happens !!

[sheila99]

As the conti patches alone contain all the progesterone you need I suspect either you have too much or the prog in the contó patches doesn't agree with you. Once you have a mirena you can have oestrogen only patches which hopefully will cure the problem. Gel instead of patches can be useful as it's easy to alter the dose to find what's best for you.

[Spiderley13]

Just a little update , I’ve now been on the oestrogen only patches (75) and mirena for 6 weeks and in all honestly I don’t think I’ve seen much improvement , the hot flushes and night sweats are a bit less frequent BUT my anxiety has gone through the roof and I think is worse than when I started and I’m finding it hard at the moment to be honest…….. so I’m wondering whether to increase or decrease the oestrogen ? Before I was on HRT I was using combined pill so suspect I may be getting less oestrogen now than I was ? ( but my levels have gone up with HRT ? ) so can’t decide if I need more or less ?? This site has been so helpful in helping me navigate my peri journey so wondered if anyone has any experience / knowledge to help me decide …….