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Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: boomerang on April 24, 2025, 05:36:56 AM

Title: Does anyone else react differently each month on their Progesterone days?
Post by: boomerang on April 24, 2025, 05:36:56 AM

Hello 👋🏻
I - like everyone here! - have spent years trying to figure out what my hormones are doing and what effect they’re having on my symptoms and quite frankly realise it’s a losing battle!

However I am finding that each month on my progesterone days I am feeling different, some months I feel very dopey and spaced out and others I feel very anxious and jumpy.
I am just trying to figure out if this is just normal and others feel the same, or why it happens?

For reference I am 43 in Peri, one pump Oestrogel and Utrogestan every 4 weeks.

Thanks for any insight!

Title: Re: Does anyone else react differently each month on their Progesterone days?
Post by: Hurdity on April 24, 2025, 07:48:53 PM

Hi boomerang

If you are peri-menopausal and your own cycle is still quite strong then, as you are finding, it is difficult to say what is causing what, simply because the very nature of peri-menopause is its unpredictability - variable cycle length, variable hormonal fluctuations and variable symptoms.

That being said - I am many years post-menopause and in my 70's and I STILL react differently to the progesterone some months. I don't know when the head fog will appear or if/when I will get a migraine. Sometimes I don't get a migraine. Sometimes the head fog starts straight away, sometimes not until say the 6th day....Always it affects my bladder at night and maybe my heart races at night, and I get vivid dreams....

So this is all very normal and one of the joys of bioidentical HRT using Utrogestan (NOT!).

I don't know if that's reassuring or not!

Hurdity x

Title: Re: Does anyone else react differently each month on their Progesterone days?
Post by: boomerang on April 25, 2025, 06:30:22 AM

Thank you Hurdity - actually yes it is!
 
I am learning just to go with it now and stop trying to understand what’s going on!