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[TheMidnightSkulker]

I have Slynd! I have Slynd!

Tomorrow is the 12th day of Utrogestan, so I'll follow through on that, then try the Slynd on Sunday.

[bombsh3ll]

Whoop whoop 😁!!!

Hope it does the trick for you!

Do let us know

[Tumiza]

Hi … I have one huge puff under one eye. It came just as my period ended and the start of all my problems. I’ve tried  a lot of things to get rid of it . I’m not on any pills or HRT !
The only thing that helps in rubbing a tiny bit of the RED tiger balm on it before bed !
You did ask what helps!

[MrsMitch]

Hi … I have one huge puff under one eye. It came just as my period ended and the start of all my problems. I’ve tried  a lot of things to get rid of it . I’m not on any pills or HRT !
The only thing that helps in rubbing a tiny bit of the RED tiger balm on it before bed !
You did ask what helps!

You know what else helps for puffy shopping bags under your eyes? Anusol cream. I kid you not! Apply a small smear under each eye and everything tightens up. Just don't use too much and don't rub your eyes!

[TheMidnightSkulker]

Hi … I have one huge puff under one eye. It came just as my period ended and the start of all my problems. I’ve tried  a lot of things to get rid of it . I’m not on any pills or HRT !
The only thing that helps in rubbing a tiny bit of the RED tiger balm on it before bed !
You did ask what helps!

Under just one eye? Hmmm.

I'll make a note about red tiger balm, for future reference.

[TheMidnightSkulker]

You know what else helps for puffy shopping bags under your eyes? Anusol cream. I kid you not! Apply a small smear under each eye and everything tightens up. Just don't use too much and don't rub your eyes!

I went to great lengths to find the original Preparation H, which was reputed to do this. It made no difference at all. I confess that I did not try Anusol. I'll add it to my list, along with the red tiger balm.

[TheMidnightSkulker]

Just a brief update, since there has been some activity here.

My upper eyelids began to lift within two hours of taking my first Slynd, at 9pm last Sunday.
I have photo records going back some time, taken at intervals daily in similar lighting conditions, so I can prove I am not imagining it; but I'm not finished gathering data. It hasn't even been seven days yet.

To the mirror, however, the difference to the upper eyelid is unmistakable, because I have very deep-set eyes. Before Slynd the upper eyelid was bulging out, sagging downwards, and tucked. Now as the day progresses, they lift and hollow until they are holding themselves up and clearly conforming to the contour of the eye socket.

Basically the upper eyelids are now looking much more like the "before [all my trouble began]" photos, and looking that way earlier in the day. They're still pretty puffy in the mornings, but even that isn't as bad as it used to be.

The undereye area is improving, albeit more slowly.

It suddenly looks like I've got my forehead on tighter. I was not expecting that, but it makes sense that the swelling would have been in my whole face, not just around my eyes; and so any improvement would be seen over the whole face, not just around my eyes. I thought yesterday that my cheekbones were standing out more, but maybe they've been like this all along and I just wasn't paying attention to them.

I started taking it at 9pm, since that is the time of day I'm guaranteed to be up. I found the immediacy of the effect hard to believe, but the signs are pretty definite. However, it looks like it's really important to take it at the same time as applying the oestrogel. So I'm working my way forward around the clock. The end goal is to be taking the Slynd and applying the oestrogel at 5am, which is an hour before I get up.

Anyway, we'll see how this goes. I'll know more in three or four weeks.

[sheila99]

Glad it's working. You'll soon be looking like a 25 year old again    ( then you can bottle it and send it to me).

[bombsh3ll]

So glad it's doing the trick for you!

[TheMidnightSkulker]

Hmmm, not so fast.

Drospirenone doesn't only dry up water, it dries up oil.

When I was taken off Dianette at age 27, I was so greasy I had to wash my hair twice a day. It was three months before I could go back on it, and the first dose immediately turned off the grease like a tap. (I was still greasy, just not to the point where it was socially unacceptable.)

Fast forward to today, I'm no longer greasy. And Slynd has twice as much drospirenone in it as I used to take in Yasmin.

I mentioned that my tears apparently are fewer, but greasier, than those of the average person. Last night when I took my contact lenses out, I thought I was going to rip my corneas off. This morning when I woke up, my left cheek (why only my left cheek?) looked like crumpled paper.

I've been in the habit of washing twice daily with a salicylic acid wash, and following once a day with benzoyl peroxide. This morning my skin was too dry to even think about that.

And you know what makes water retention worse? Dehydration. I think the under-eye bags are actually getting worse now, not better (the upper eyelids are doing better).

The specialist did say to increase my oestrogen to three pumps, which I did feel like I needed that - but it gave me so much water retention that I couldn't tolerate it. This morning, however, I couldn't stand it and I took a third pump at 8am, three hours after my regular dose.

So I'm not sure what I'll do now. I am finally getting a handle on my sleep schedule, and I don't want the sedative effect of utrogestan undermining that. It's the horseshoe nail for want of which the battle and then the war is lost.

As I said, I probably do need a bit more oestrogen, so I'm going to go on with three pumps and see if that makes for a better balance.

Slynd has a 24-hour "safe window" for birth control. I wonder if I could take it every other day, or something like that.

[TheMidnightSkulker]

Quick update:

The last time I posted was three days ago. That was the day I first tried combining one Slynd with three pumps of Oestrogel in the morning instead of two.

That afternoon, I looked in the mirror and saw my own face looking back at me again.

On the second day of increased Oestrogel, the puffiness started to return.

Today - the third day - I'm puffier still.

Clearly oestrogen is what's making me puffy. Slynd is counteracting the puffiness. However, Slynd is too dehydrating to take with just two pumps of oestrogel. And three pumps of oestrogel are too much.

From reading around the forums, I see that some of you take half a pump. So tomorrow morning, I will try 2.5 pumps and see if that's the sweet spot.

[Suziemc]

I was using 3.5 pumps oestrogen and I used a cheap set of jewellers scales from Amazon to measure out the half dose. I actually bought the scales as the oestrogel pumps started to get erratic in dosage several months ago so I used the scales to measure all pumps.

If you find the half pump works for you, I'd recommend buying jewellers scales ( around £5 from amazon) so you can be sure you're getting a half measure.

Suzie

[TheMidnightSkulker]

Thanks for the tip!

Do you keep the remaining half dose somehow? Or just write it off?

[bombsh3ll]

Given the dose of drospirenone in Yasmin (which has 30mcg ethinylestradiol), and a historic HRT preparation called Angeliq, I am pretty sure you could cut the Slynd pill in half and take 2mg daily with 2 pumps of estrogen.

Obviously this is not standardized but your doctor might agree to this if you were willing to get a scan now and then to monitor your endometrium.

[Suziemc]

Thanks for the tip!

Do you keep the remaining half dose somehow? Or just write it off?

I just slightly pressed the pump so less came out, none wasted