oestrogel nausea and tiredness

[NancySpero]

I went to see Michael Savaas at John Studd's clinic over a week ago due to 18 months of hellish symptoms including insomnia, night sweats, loss of libido, headaches... basically I ticked every box on his list of symptoms . I'm only 42 but my Mum has osteoporosis and a dexa scan showed osteopenia in my hip so I'm very keen to protect myself with HRT.

I was prescribed 3 pumps of oestrogel daily plus a blob of testosterone and utrogestan for 10 days each month. I've been taking the oestrogel for 10 days now and experiencing nausea and dizziness which is getting worse by the day. Has anyone experienced the same and did it settle? Right now I feel like I've swapped one lot of symptoms for another.

Meant to say nausea, tiredness and dizziness.

I also can't think straight

You can probably get over this quite easily. I use gel and started 11 years ago on it. I found it was best to start on a very low dose (as suggested by my lovely consultant) and began with around half a pump for a week. I then upped it to one pump for a week or more, then two. When I used 2, I felt sick all morning, so I decided to split the dose morning and bedtime. That sorted it.

Soooo...my advice is go back to one pump for a while, then gradually increase it. You won't do any harm and the effect on bones takes months/ years so this small reduction now is fine.
The normal dose is 2 pumps but as you are so young, some drs do suggest a higher dose.

Thank you jingling. I'll take your advice and build dose up slowly. I just want to feel normal again so hopefully I'll get there eventually.

On the plus side, Michael Savaas was lovely and I felt listened to for the first time in years. I feel very lucky to be able to see a consultant privately, it's just a shame the information isn't more widely available on the NHS (my GP repeatedly pressed me to take ADs despite my insistence that the anxiety was cyclical).