Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Milly1974 on July 23, 2022, 03:45:31 PM
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Hi ladies,
I've been on the everol 50 patches and utrogestan pills 200mg now for 2 months, all was fine until around 10 days ago when I got the most horrid shooting Cramps down my left groin that keep coming and going also a migraine that I cant shrug off. I've seen the GP who thought I might have a kidney stone so I have since had a CT scan that confirmed I haven't. I'm now thinking could this be the HRT? I am now feeling worse than I did before I started it. Does anyone else get these symptoms? Any feed back would be very reassuring.
Lisa.
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Milly1974, sorry to hear you are having problems. I have had leg cramps with migraines in the past and according to my migraine specialist, it is not unusual.
You mention your 200mg dose of Utrogestan. That sounds like a very high dose with a 50mg patch. How many days do you take it ie is it continuously or on a cycle?
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Thank you for your response. I take it for 12 days of the month.
I'm undecided whether to stop it all together or carry on and see how it goes. I'm confused at the moment.
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I would reduce the Utrogestan dose to 100mg for 12 days and see if that helps.
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Hi Lisa, I had to switch to Evorel due to shortages and had horrific migraines that lasted 12 days straight, they disappeared 2 days back on my Estraderm patches. We are not the only ones this has happened to as well. 😞
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It’s funny you should say that lillith, as I’ve just swapped to Estradot from Evorel and don’t feel too great right now. Headache, cramps, irritability. The dose is the same, but clearly something else isn’t the same.
I only switched as evorel were irritating my skin and crinkling.
Back to the drawing board I guess 🤦♀️
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Thank you for your responses ladies. It's so frustrating isn't it! 😑
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It’s funny you should say that lillith, as I’ve just swapped to Estradot from Evorel and don’t feel too great right now. Headache, cramps, irritability. The dose is the same, but clearly something else isn’t the same.
I only switched as evorel were irritating my skin and crinkling.
Back to the drawing board I guess 🤦♀️
Nas try switching to Estraderm, I literally have no side effects whatsoever on them. Everything else is horrendous, I think Estraderm are delivered in a more gentle manor than the other patches !
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Are Estraderm big patches, lillith? Mind you, if they give no side effects, they can be as big as they like!
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Milly, I wouldn't change your progesterone dose. 200mg for half the month is the standard dosage for sequential HRT. Any less than that and you risk not having enough progesterone to protect your uterus.
I would ask - do you have a history of endometriosis? Or perhaps of heavy periods and pain with periods (as it might have been undiagnosed endo)?
One of my endo twinges I get when I have a flare, is sciatic pain down the very top of my thigh. For me, that could most definitely be caused by too much estrogen (which can feed endo), or not enough progesterone (which opposes the estrogen and suppresses the endo).
The other possible cause could be your ovaries. Is it in the kind of ovary area? I was on the desogestrel POP before starting HRT and I stopped the POP when I started HRT. My ovaries suddenly woke up after about 5 weeks and started firing shooting pains everywhere... It did go away again after a week or 10 days.
The migraines, it most definitely could cause - but hopefully that is just a blip and will go away again and is about your hormones stabilising.