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Menopause Discussion => Personal Experiences => Topic started by: Kathleen on May 11, 2014, 10:13:22 AM
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Hello ladies. I'm sorry to moan but I feel so awful and need to talk. I've woken up today feeling really sick and dizzy, my head aches and I could cry. I have no energy or enthusiasm and spent most of yesterday just laying around. It's hard to believe hormones can do this.
I am 57, post meno and have been on patches for three months. Do you ladies think I should carry on with the HRT and hope things improve or should I take a break and see what happens? I began HRT because I was experiencing constant jittery feelings and palpitations and I was desperate to feel better but that certainly hasn't happened yet!
I'm feeling so low and confused by it all, I just want a bit of normality for a change.
Thank you for reading and sending my best wishes to you all. This is a rough ride, that's for sure.
Take care.
K.
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I can't really offer much advice as I haven't managed to persuade my GP that I am perimenopausal, so have no experience of HRT. But I do sympathize. I have suffered with the dizzy spells and nausea, they have been more or less constant over the past couple of days and I have spent this morning in tears. I feel at breaking point, I wish my GP would listen to me instead of my FSH blood test. Like you, I just want to feel normal again.
Hope you are feeling a little better now.
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Which patches are you on Kathleen?
Taz x
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Hello toffeecushion and thank you for the reply.
I hope things improve for you too.
Take care.
K. :hug:
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Hello Taz2 and thanks for your message.
I'm on Evorel patches, 50 at the moment having just increased from 25. As I am post meno I have no idea if these levels are right or not. I'm just playing it all by ear and confusing myself into the bargain!
The trouble is I find it so hard to think straight at times like this and that is why the comments of other women are so helpful.
I need to go offline for a while but I will check in to the forum later today.
Wishing you well.
K.
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Can't help but wanted to give you :bighug:
Hope things improve soon, nothing worse than feeling liker that. Be kind to yourself.
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Hi Kathleen
Sorry you are feeling so bad.
I am on Evorel Conti patches like you. I tried to do without to see what happened and I felt much worse. Palps came back with a vengence and they have settled down now I am back on the patches.
I've heard it can take up to 6mths before you get the full effect of the HRT. Hopefully you will feel better soon. It's a horrible feeling.
(((Hugs)))
Shazzie x
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Evorel contains the progesterone Norethisterone which in some women gives rise to horrible pmt-like symptoms plus depression and low mood. It may be worth your while asking to be changed to Femseven which has a kinder progesterone. I got on much better with Femseven than with Evorel which turned me into a quivering wreck.
Taz x
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Evorel contains the progesterone Norethisterone which in some women gives rise to horrible pmt-like symptoms plus depression and low mood. It may be worth your while asking to be changed to Femseven which has a kinder progesterone. I got on much better with Femseven than with Evorel which turned me into a quivering wreck.
Taz x
Hi Taz
Kathleen is on utrogestan, according to this post http://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,24577.msg374585.html#msg374585
Could it be that utrogestan is not agreeing with her?
I heard that femseven was discontinued or in short supply.
Femoston is a good HRT, but I wouldn't have said that a couple of weeks ago.
It's kicked in now and is serving me well. A lot of women seem to tolerate the dydrogesterone and Kathleen can take the conti with her being post meno.
Someone a bit more meno-wise than me may want to chime in here though.
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:bighug:
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Sorry - my mistake - I read it as conti for some reason! I thought it was just a patch HRT as the utrogestan wasn't mentioned in this post.
Taz x
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It was in the 4th month before I started to have a few odd good days and 6 months before I felt better every day. The flushes went after 2 weeks though.
Have a hug. :hug:
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Hi Kathleen, i wonder if the 50 is too much? how post meno are you? i know when my estrogen is too much that i get similar symptoms to you. As someone else said it could be the prog element in your hrt that is not agreeing with you - three months should be long enough for you to feel some improvement, either way i do hope you get sorted soon x