EnglishRose - yep I did the roller coaster but I didn't worry about too much or too little and I have never had any blood tests either as I am an NHS patient and they don't do them. I think Dangermouse is onto something for you and I read in someone else's post a while back (sorry cant remember who) who said they varied their oestrogen depending on where they were in their cycle because they were peri and still having hormone surges. I don't have to worry (now!) because I am post so my own levels are pretty much done.
The "stabalising" thing is a difficult one to call. I have had 5 types of hrt in all over 10 years, and I was on PrempakC (now discontinued for 7 of those). Controlled the flushing but not the anxiety or aches or panic or insomnia or nausea and I didn't know any different that it was obviously the "wrong" hrt for me! GP useless and never caught on either so much so I was sent to a Rheumatologist and diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Also during that time I was put into counselling and CBT 3 times! Obviously it was of no help because it was my hormones going haywire!.
Anyway now on oestrogel and utrogestan vaginally on a cycle because I couldnt do continuous progesterone and everything bar bad depression and lack of motivation gone. And the "gone part".... - you just dont wake up one day and "its gone" - it sort of creeps up on you - well it did for me. Dangermouse is defo onto something and I think you need to stop examining how 
you are feeling every minute of everyday because it's gonna drive you loopy - it kind of doesn't work like that. When you are new to this meno thing it is very frightening but you are in good company here and in fact I think there is more good advice here than you can get from the medical profession who are either men or NOT menopausal women who should know better! Let your body and the hrt meds do their thing - experiment a bit by varying your oestrogen around your cycle but you are going to have to stick to 1 month at a time in order to really work out what the results are and what is actually happening.
2 cycles a month is not unusual when you first start out - you are going to have to persevere. I know its not what you want to hear because when we are bad we just want it fixed now but you dont persevere then you wont ever know if you can get it fixed and you will be stuck with dodgy symptoms all the time especially as you are peri.
Take it easy RoseEnglish
I
am a worrier. Sorry.
It's just I got through ten years of peri without much drama, thr night sweats and the day flushes and insomnia (not much) rage, anxiety etc I could handle.
But now I'm at the end of peri and since the new symptoms kickdc in, my mental health is fragile plus I have VA symptoms or at least I'm assuming that's what they are.
My vag has felt like someone kicked me in it and later like I'd been stung by a wasp. All swollen feeling outside and inside. But I wasn't.
Combining vagina pain with hormone depression is not easy to brush off.
Like you say, this is new to me. You have ten years of it and seem to have come through the other side which is great, that's what we all hope for.
So do you have fibromyalgia or was that a misdiagnosis based on not getting your HRT and hormones balanced?
It's so upsetting to have to put your faith in the nhs. I was told I probably have IC because I pee a lot for years and the front wall of my vagina (where the bladder sits) was sensitive upon examining.
Thankful I've been told by MaryJane she was told the exact same thing about the same symptoms and location and it was VA.
Had she not shared that I'd be off having my bladder stretched and all kinds of invasive treatments.
So I value your opinion as you're a veteran on the subject of HRT, I wonder if you're in a better place bc your no longer fluctuating hormonallyl
What ever the cause, long may it last, you've been through hell it seems x
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