Joint Pain - side effect of hrt. Anyone had this experience?

[PeterSpots]

Hello. I was on here earlier with a rough ride with bladder/urethra pain & an awful time after a Cystoscopy & face spasms/pain. Seen a gynaecologist who finally examined me who sid I had VA, painful, boggy uterus. The ultrasound showed adenmyosis and a white inflammation area around my urethra. Started on evoral 75, climagist 1mg 1 week ago. Bits feeling ok but my ankles, knees, elbows feeling achey. Don't know if this would happen anyway or if it's a side effect & if this wears off? Thank you. I could just wait another week than contact consultant. Just would like a break! Face is feeling so full of pressure

A week on my joints are aching & some of my muscles could this be a side effect from the hrt? Has anyone experienced this & does the side effect go away

I started taking hrt for joint pains and it made it worse. It tried another one , but started vit D and it got better.

I have recently started a higher dose because the pains were back - it is mainly my neck - it gets too painful to sit up in bed and read, even with cushions. They got worse, so I started the vit D after 2 weeks. I was going to leave it a month to make sure that the hrt made/did not make a difference but it was too painful.

I think I am going to have to keep taking D3. I am not sure what my levels are now, but I obviously did not get enough sun in the summer despite my best efforts .

The pains I get are in my neck, hands and feet and hips.

I am wondering if the hrt just makes the vit d problem worse.

Is there any proof that Vit D actually works like this- to relieve pain? Or is a coincidence that sometimes we take a supplement and then the pain disappears so we think it's the Vit that helped? I know some people think or thought that osteoporosis causes bone pain/ aches and pains etc and of course it doesn't- it's symptomless until you break a bone easily. some people have slight arthritis and damp weather can really make joints ache. Vit D is stored in the liver and gradually released as needed. I don't think being low in Vit D actually produces symptoms on a changeable week by week basis- but happy to learn otherwise.

I started taking it because I had a blood test come back as low - it was part of a group of tests for arthritis, so it must be considered to have an effect. The aches got gradually better over a 6 week period, but come back after a couple of weeks without it. They were not really a day-by-day thing. I thought once my levels were up it would be ok, but the pains drift back..

The vitamin D is used in supporting tissues as well as the bones, and also in processes such as thyroxin absorption in cells. It is possible that the joint aches are caused by some process taking place and it is not the actual joints. Vitamin D acts as a hormone and there is a lot of research into it at the moment.

There is an incredibly complicated thread on General Health about it.

We don't get out as much with our nice homes to sit in, and cannot make vit D from the sun from October to March in this country, so a lot of people are low in it much of the time, even if they are not so low as to get deficiency disease like rickets or the equivalent. You need 3 meals of a good vit D source (oily fish) each week to get enough in your diet.

Anyway, I do not want to hijack Peterspot's thread - just to see if she has tried this as well, which I think she may well have.

Hello. Me too. Mine is really, really low & my ferritin, oestrogen & testosterone. Have been taking vit d for awhile. Maybe it didn't work as well on hrt. I have an underactive thyroid too but levels are fine

My feeling is that the aching is from something going on with the low vit D and the hrt increases this effect.

I am still taking the hrt, but I am back to taking 25ug/1000iu daily D3 as well.

You do seem to have a lot going on with low readings - they probably impact on each other, but I am no expert.

My vit D was not terribly low - 39 which is the beginning of being low on most clinical scales. However, this was just after summer when it should have been at its height. My levels must have been rubbish for years

Hope you get all this sorted soon

There is a school of thought that dairy produce exacerbates arthritis and yet milk is high in Vit D! My MIL had terrible osteoarthritis and osteoporosis- which actually were the cause of her death - yet she'd always had a diet high in Vit D and lived in the sunniest and warmest part of the UK and spent a lot of time outdoors.

The advice is that we need 10 mins of sun daily over the summer on our arms. This builds up Vit D which ought to last until the spring even without including the oily fish or dairy foods we eat.

I had mine tested a few years back and it was fine which is possibly down to exercising outside and eating a lot of oily fish and eggs.

@PeterSpots im just wondering if the lady with the joint pains from hrt is still on here, but i realise its been 5 years. its just that i am suffering joint pains since STARTING hrt. my gp says it doesnt cause joint pain but i dont understand why i only got since starting hrt. i would just like to find out how you have got on since then?

MN posters are generally in the school of thought that HRT cures all ills, Gezzy. If OP had a problem then it was the 'wrong type of HRT' not that HRT isn't wonderful & suitable for everyone.

5 years is a long time to put up with something painful! Sorry to hear that.

Same here . I started hrt 5 weeks ago and my right knee is killing me. I had to stopped training . Its a nightmare.

I’ve just started HRT oestrogen patches and I have aches and pains all over my body. I can’t function as normal. Anyone else get this?