Hello all, I’ve been lurking here for a while and have found these threads so helpful. I’m 45 and started Estradot patch 50mcg last Thursday after a month of what’s basically been a mental health crisis. Non stop anxiety and panic attacks, feeling lost and unreal. This is so unlike me - I’ve had intermittent mild anxiety but I’m usually a confident, active person in a high-pressure job. Also having annoying peri symptoms like night sweats and long/heavy periods but the mental disaster was the last straw. I’ve not been able to work at all since then.
The first morning of HRT, I felt transformed, as if someone had put a cosy blanket over my anxiety. Not perfect, just calmer. Friday and Saturday, felt so ‘normal’ and even positive/optimistic for the first time in ages. A bit of insomnia and ‘buzzy’ feeling but nothing major.
Today it’s as if I can feel the patch wearing off: panicky, shaky and anxious, with a gripping tension headache/migraine. Changed my patch now but worrying that I’ll be on this roller coaster forever, with only tiny glimpses of the old me. Someone please tell me it will get better! I just can’t seem to see my way through this.