Feeling almost stoned on oestrogen!

[TheGingerTree]

I started sequi HRT mid cycle on Day 13.

My first week on sequi HRT was very up and down. Bad anxiety, mood swings and insomnia. Second week was much better as the Utrogestan had kicked in, so I felt much calmer and my sleep was good.

But when my withdrawl bleed arrived 4 days after stopping the Utro, my mood seriously dipped and the anxiety was back. Insomnia also back with a vengeance.

These horrible symptoms continued right through my bleed. In fact they only started to lift yesterday, 2 days after my bleed had finished.

But today I feel totally chilled out, to the point of feeling almost stoned. I used to get this exact effect around ovulation, but only for a day or so.

This stoned feeling is rather lovely, but if it continues right through until I ovulate roughly at the end of next week then I'm not going to get anything done

Anyone else had experience of this?

This was one of the reasons I changed to utrogestan 100mg days 1-25. It works much better at keeping me on an even keel ??

Luckily feeling slightly less stoned today

But still super relaxed. My DS had spilt porridge all over the kitchen table befire I got up this morning and left it to set like cement. But I just shrugged and smiled. He must wonder what's happened!!!

How is your mood now you're taking Utro daily?

It's funny how we are all so different. I found Utro 100mgs daily ( 21 days I was told to try to give a light bleed rather than a heavy one) dreadful. I had a permanent migraine(only slight) because a drop in progesterone has always made me a migraine-ish at the end of natural cycle anyway. I knew that with 100mgs I just wasn't absorbing enough to give a constant level AND I had slight spotting /bleeding every day for all the 3 weeks. I was relieved to get to the end of that month and go back to the 200mgs for 10 days every few weeks . I don't find it makes me sleepy but I do find my reactions to it are different almost each time I use it. Sometimes I feel fat and bloated, other times I feel hot at night and this wakes me up. Guess everyone is totally different.

Yes I have noticed I've had a headache every day since last Thursday, which perhaps not coincidentally when my mood started to improve?

Obviously the HRT must be kicking in and doing something?

Only had the one Utro phase, but I did notice I felt more sleepy than usual. But that's fine as insomnia had been an issue.

It's so peculiar how dramatically different people can react to these hormones. Especially as they're bio identical to our own.

God, it sounds wonderful to me! I'm tearful, 90% of the time so I'd kill for some of that. Seriously, if it weren't for my DS, who is disabled, I'd jump off a tall building.

My GP flatly refused to try me on HRT a month ago when I visited her.

I haven't experienced being stoned on oestrogen but I've certainly so far found a big difference between the Utrogestan days and the oestrogen-only. This has been my first cycle but I slept so well on Utrogestan that I thought my original sleep problem was cured. I found it very hard to get out of bed in the mornings. As opposed to my first oestrogen-only day of my second cycle where I woke at 3.45 and couldn't get back to sleep. Then last night I ended up taking a sleeping tablet and today feel very low. I want Utrogestan every day!

Eliza, find another doctor. I went in and told them what I wanted, having done my research. I'm also going to see the gynaecologist Dr John Studd in June who treats all kinds of female depression with HRT; so you could go private if necessary, but you should be able to get it on the NHS. The risks are lower on bioidentical HRT anyway. Did they give a reason for refusing?

High blood pressure. Medicated but, just keeps nudging up.