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Hi Wren, thanks for your points
 I started utrogestan and Estrogel around October 22, gradually increasing from 2 pumps to 4 but remaining on just one Utrogestan tablet. The sweats were not to this level at that point, infrequent and less noticeable with not much dampness of bed clothes and sheets. I used to feel a little damp patch across the chest only but now its the whole body. Prior to that I was on a combined patch, with a lot of breakthrough bleeding. Its difficult to establish what is going on now, where to point the finger. I remain very achey and the brain fog is not good either. Its weird because when I very first started HRT I was staggered at the turnaround feeling like a new woman so quickly, but I had been existing on literally zero hormones for years so it was like a shot of adrenaline to the body. I feel I want to have more bloods done to get a proper view as I am also navigating autoimmune issues as well. It all feels complex and difficult how to navigate the hormones as symptoms cross over if that makes sense.
I know bloods are not meant to be the correct way to manage things, its our symptoms but it does help to know if we are absorbing sufficiently in line with the dosages

11 May 2024

How to have a healthy Menopause - did any1 read/critique this? 

The item on repeat urinary infections could have explained in a lot more detail !!!!   How many 'infections' are not a bug  . 

'vaginal oestrogen - which is not HRT - can help reduce the frequency of infections, but also can help prevent them as well'.  I'm not comfortable with this statement by ...... Dr Claire Phipps, a GP and British Menopause Society menopause specialist .

Yes and doctors know about as much about thyroid as menopause    Let alone both together...

Sereia 

Hi Buffy26, you say the night sweats started around a year ago, but I'm not clear whether you only began Utrogestan 10 months ago (i.e. around the same time) & were maybe on a different progestogen prior to that?

I am 61 and on HRT for just over 2 years. I had minimal day hot flushes in peri, and the odd night of overheating but nothing like now.
I have been a slow absorber of both the patches and the gel with last two lots of bloods reading just 312 when on 3 pumps. Ive since increased to 4 pumps of Estrogel and 1 Utrogestan 10 months ago . . . and for the last year every night to wake up with my sheets really damp.

Reason for asking is that progesterone increases body temperature & some of us find Utrogestan makes us extremely hot at night.  I found it was the worst of the prog range for this effect but all progestogens other than Dydrogesterone (in the oral Femoston range) are said to act in this way to some extent.  As the others have suggested, sufficient replacement oestradiol should mitigate the effect.
Wx

I agree with you Sheila99 I need to have a review with a private specialist, they seem to have a more open mind on going over the guidelines
I have had some blood results come in recently that are being looked into for something else now, so will wait and see if this could be related to the night sweats and then once I have answers there I will get back to focusing on the estrogen levels.

Thank you

Bruges is lovely.  A couple of weeks ago I found my photographic/post card album from our School Trip in 1968, DH was along but we weren't an item in those days.  I even found the Hotel in which we stayed by GOOGLE-maps.  The wooden bridge across the canal which sounded like thunder all the while, has been replaced by a proper road surface. 

I honestly really don't have a sweet tooth but I might be tempted 
Oh songbird how big a Tupperware box do you take ?🤣😂
Yep,Warners have NO KIDS policy,it's like a cruise but you just don't go anywhere 
Zeebrugge in September,Xmas & New year cruise to Canaries & Madeira,Norway in May and two other Xmas cruises booked already,no no,I'm not addicted either 

There can be a big difference between normal range and the level an individual needs to feel good on. You have uncontrolled symptoms so you need more oestrogen. If your gp won't prescribe more you can ask for a referral to a meno clinic who can. Or see someone privately. I had the same problem with evorel patches but find estrodot are fine. I get more from oestrogel and estradot than I did from evorel.

Lordy, it continues to amaze me that so little is known about all these changes, and so everything becomes trial & error.
If I wanted to be a guinea pig I'd have bought a giant cage 

I agree totally with that! Have said it myself so many times