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Did your regime need changing as you went through perimenopause?

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menopauseadventurer · 19/10/2022 10:51

Hi there. I'm perimenopausal and had a lot of anxiety and palpitation-like symptoms before I started HRT. It took a bit of experimenting but my symptoms reduced massively with a combination of transdermal estrogen patch and continuous utrogestan. It's been good for months now. But in recent weeks I've taken a turn for the worse in terms of mood and anxiety. I thought this was just things going on in life, but for the past three weeks I've started getting more palpitation-type things again which feels very familiar and similar to what I was getting before. This made me wonder whether my HRT regime is working as well as it was or if I need to get it tweaked. I am trying to get an appt with my specialist person and will ask but trying to research a bit beforehand.

Did you find you needed different doses at different stages of peri versus post menopause? Did you find the regime needed changing during perimenopause?

(By the way, when I was looking up estrogen doses between the patches and the creams I got quite confused. When people talk about pumps, I've no idea what that means in terms of dosage.)

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JinglingHellsBells · 19/10/2022 12:51

You don't say how long you have been on HRT?
If it's years, you may need a higher dose of estrogen, or even less!

By the way, when I was looking up estrogen doses between the patches and the creams I got quite confused. When people talk about pumps, I've no idea what that means in terms of dosage

The dose is on the cardboard box of the Oestrogel. One pump = 0.75mcgs of estrogen. You can't compare it with patches, directly, as patches release the dose over several days.

If you wanted to try patches, there are tables online of the equivalent doses.
Dr Louise Newson has a table on her website.

menopauseadventurer · 19/10/2022 13:01

Hi there and thanks for replying. I've been on it a few months and it took away the palpitations and "funny feelings" I was getting particularly at night almost straight away as soon as I found the right regime for me. But as they are creeping back the last three weeks or so I wondered if I need to look at it again or not. Thanks for info about the equiv doses I'll look at that.

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loottie · 20/10/2022 13:49

@JinglingHellsBells - do you mind sharing a link to that table? I've searched the website and I couldn't find it, but I'm looking for exactly that information.
Thanks.

WarriorN · 21/10/2022 12:57

Yes absolutely. I started hrt last Nov and had felt fab after a couple of months.
I don't know if it would have happened anyway but I do feel I got much worse a few months after I'd had covid (which was in January) despite going up a patch to 50 while I had covid. Blood tests showed borderline low oestrogen after Easter and I had awful vulval and vaginal issues very suddenly, zero libido. Daily hot flushes.

I'm now on 100 patches (plus had second covid infection 3 months ago which again lingered). Tentatively seeing slight improvements in the last couple of weeks but I need to give it a good 3-4 months before reviewing. It can take that long to have impact.

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