Anxious after boring dreams.

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I’ve been on HRT for over a year and it made a great difference at first. Was swapped from patches to gel (2 pumps a day) and utrogestan as patches kept falling off and holding on with bandage meant sweating and not absorbing the HRT.

Anyway my issue is with dreams. For the most part I’m someone who has no recollection of dreaming and when I do I’m always aware it is a dream. However lately I’ve been having really mundane dreams about people I know (acquaintances/family etc) that while I don’t remember the dreams fully I know there’s nothing special about them (think going to supermarket, taking a walk along a canal- really boring). What I’m finding is that when I wake up from having these dreams I have an immense sense of dread and doom or anxiety. It’s gone by lunchtime but if I wake at 3am then I’m dozing on and off and wake with anxiety until midday.

I’m not an anxious person, I dont usually have depression or any other MH issues (experienced historically so know what that’s like) . It’s only triggered by these dreams, which haven’t been as regular as I’ve had pre-period insomnia the past few days (that’s another issue I want to know how to deal with). Life is otherwise uninteresting/unexciting/unremarkable

I still get periods regularly so my GP is reluctant to up the dose of HRT meaning if I add an extra pump of Gel myself, I’m short at the end of the month and they are strict on replacing before it’s due.

Any advice on dealing with this?

I still get periods regularly so my GP is reluctant to up the dose of HRT meaning if I add an extra pump of Gel myself,

Can't help with the dreams, sorry, but the bleeding is not a period.
It's a withdrawal bleed that comes a few days after the last Utrogestan. It will carry on as long as you use sequential HRT ( eg if you were 90 it would still be happening each month. It's not a period.)

I get my period 26 days on the dot regardless of HRT or where I am in the HRT cycle or if I have a few months off due to supply issues. It’s been like that since they began. I started HRT for symptoms not because of periods and the consultant told me when I asked what to do about progesterone when I bleed before it starts or a few days into the second half of the sequence, that it was my own hormones breaking through but to keep taking the progesterone (patches or pills) for the 15 day duration. I even queried the need for 15 days if my luteal phase is is only 12 (still a regular day 14 ovulator too!) and was told yes.

So while I understand that stopping progesterone is meant to trigger withdrawal bleeds it never has worked out that way for my cycle which likes to stick to its own timeline regardless of the artificial hormones I take. Thank you for your pedantry though. It was totally unnecessary.

Starting the progresterone triggers my bleeds and I am finding that I am spotting after I have finished with the utrogestan a bit too. Are you not bleeding during weeks 3 and 4 in the utrogestan phase?