Just wanted to have a moan, tired of feeling crap

[Krazykitty]

As the title says I’m so fed up of feeling crap. Every week I feel I get another symptom. This week is fatigue, just pure exhaustion from morning until night.

I am on HRT Evorel 50 and 100mg Utrogestan daily. Yesterday I decided to cut a patch in half and added it to see how I get on with a 75 dose. I don’t know why but I expected to wake up and feel better, stupid me!

I know I’m not alone but I do just feel like I’m the only one who feels this way. I couldn't even be bothered to go for a run this morning which is very unlike me.

Has anyone found that increasing oestrogen has given them energy back? Or any other tips would be greatly received.

I’m on anti depressants, have been for years, but all of this is making me feel like I’m spiralling again.

Apologies for the moan but I know this is the place I can come where you all understand 😊

Sorry you’re feeling like this. You most definitely are not on your own. I’m kind of muddling through with HRT helping a lot of my symptoms but I wouldn’t describe myself as full of energy and thriving.
Optimising oestrogen should help lots of women but there’s definitely a range of how much and what’s needed depending on the individual. Trying different doses is a good starter. Also, I’m trying to assess what’s attributed to
menopause and HRT can actually help with and what are external factors. Exercise definitely helps when you’re able to
do it but if running feels like too
much at the moment maybe a brisk walk or a kitchen boogie might be achievable instead?

Thank you @Fififizz for replying. It’s all a minefield isn’t it and a lot of trial and error. I’m just having one of those weeks where I’m feeling sorry for myself 🙄.

You’re right, a walk or a boogie sounds much more doable at the moment. Will give that a go.

Oh I’m with you I could cry just now. It’s the crippling tiredness, the brain fog where I keep forgetting words for things and the mood swings that are really getting to me. I work in a stressful active job but I’m so demotivated right now I just cannot be bothered but it’s a job where I have to be bothered.

@sweetkitty sorry to hear you are struggling too. The depression has really kicked in for me now, the mornings are the worst. I feel at a loss of what to do. I’m really not sure if HRT is helping at all and feel like just giving it up.

I've gone the other way and upped from 1g of estrogen gel to 1.5g daily because some of my symptoms were starting to re-emerge and I felt like death. The migraines are killers for me - they last for up to 3 days each time and make me feel really nauseous - was getting them almost weekly. So HRT became essential. I'm hanging onto to it for as long as possible - I can't hold down my job or parent my kid without it...

I don’t think my hrt is cutting it anymore either. Evorel sequi 50 patches. Flat sums it up. No engagement, no enthusiasm, get up and go has gone. Whatever happened to me? I look at photos from a few years ago - I’m not that person and that’s sad.

OP, I wonder if your Evorel 50 is being swamped by taking daily Utrogestan? Have you tried upping to Evorel 100 and taking Utrogestan only half the month?