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Initial side effecst from Sandrena (oestrogen) gel - can anyone help me?

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greenweepingwillow · 09/09/2021 16:21

Hi All,
I have just started on my first go at hrt. Ive been put on sandrena gel 1mg daily and utrogestan 200mg days 15 to 26. Today is day 8 so Im just on the gel so far. Im 48, perimenopausal, was still having periods of varying ammounts but had loads of symptoms, worst of which were irritability, anxiety , palpitations and dripping with sweat whenever I so much as breathed wrong!
Just wondering though for the last couple of days I have felt totally wiped out from the gel. Like sort of spced out and so so exhausted I could fall asleep standing up and kind of dizzy and groggy and not really with it. Has anyone else experienced this and how long did it take to setlle? Im back to work tomorrow having been off since last week and Im worried about how I will be bale to function.

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JinglingHellsBells · 09/09/2021 17:02

Sorry but having used gel for years this hasn't happened to me.

I know it's easy to blame the gel but it could be anything- a cold/virus/ bug of some type.

Doesn't have to be the gel.

Hope you feel better soon

greenweepingwillow · 09/09/2021 18:24

thanks jingling
I don't think it is a bug or anything else. It feels very unlike anything I have experienced before - except when I was pregnant! (def not pg btw!!)
Will hang in there and hope it subsides.

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Druantia · 04/05/2022 18:08

I'm in the first month, but I'm experiencing the opposite. Same symptoms, but not with the gel... it's the utrogestan that I'm struggling with. Hope you're getting on better with it now.

Ayeupduck82 · 24/04/2024 18:07

greenweepingwillow · 09/09/2021 16:21

Hi All,
I have just started on my first go at hrt. Ive been put on sandrena gel 1mg daily and utrogestan 200mg days 15 to 26. Today is day 8 so Im just on the gel so far. Im 48, perimenopausal, was still having periods of varying ammounts but had loads of symptoms, worst of which were irritability, anxiety , palpitations and dripping with sweat whenever I so much as breathed wrong!
Just wondering though for the last couple of days I have felt totally wiped out from the gel. Like sort of spced out and so so exhausted I could fall asleep standing up and kind of dizzy and groggy and not really with it. Has anyone else experienced this and how long did it take to setlle? Im back to work tomorrow having been off since last week and Im worried about how I will be bale to function.

How are you feeling on the gel now? Did you persevere? Just wondering because I feel exactly the same

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