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Oestrogen gel question

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LegoTherapy · 05/07/2024 10:22

I've been prescribed this along with progesterone. How soon did you notice a difference and did it help your skin thinning/wrinkles at all? Do the gel have to be applied to the thigh or could I put in on my neck to target the sagging skin🤣 total newbie

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LegoTherapy · 05/07/2024 10:51

I'm not sure I even want to be on it with all the side effects particularly of the progestogen. I'm going on holiday soon and don't want any side effects.

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Localher0 · 05/07/2024 10:52

No you can't put it on your neck. Upper thigh or arm.

JinglingSpringbells · 05/07/2024 11:11

Seriously?

Why do you think putting it on your neck would help?

Did you post earlier this week about asking if it would make your neck less wrinkled- or was that someone else?

I'd say that if your symptoms don't bother you much and you're only using it as a in the hope it will be a 'beauty treatment' then you should consider if you do need it at all.

Also, you don't know if you will have any side effects. Everyone is different.

LegoTherapy · 05/07/2024 11:40

Yes it was me. My neck is about 10 years older than my face and it's getting me down. I'm not usually vain at all but my neck is scraggy now and it upsets me.I think I've got confused with oestrogen face creams though. I'm on the fence about HRT anyway because I have endometriosis and past experience with hormones has aggravated it and given me horrendous mood swings. But it might help my symptoms of talking twaddle with my sentences like word soup, facial parasthesia, a cycle that is not cyclical, dry vagina and vulva, dry skin, thinning hair, palpitations and other stuff that might come back to me later.

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Localher0 · 05/07/2024 16:06

Retinol for your neck. Follow dr/pack instructions for oestrogen gel and progesterone tablets. Oestrogen cream for vagina is different to gel. Works wonders

JinglingSpringbells · 05/07/2024 16:08

LegoTherapy · 05/07/2024 11:40

Yes it was me. My neck is about 10 years older than my face and it's getting me down. I'm not usually vain at all but my neck is scraggy now and it upsets me.I think I've got confused with oestrogen face creams though. I'm on the fence about HRT anyway because I have endometriosis and past experience with hormones has aggravated it and given me horrendous mood swings. But it might help my symptoms of talking twaddle with my sentences like word soup, facial parasthesia, a cycle that is not cyclical, dry vagina and vulva, dry skin, thinning hair, palpitations and other stuff that might come back to me later.

Estrogen is a prescribed drug and not in face creams.

If any are being sold as containing estrogen, it's untrue.

Your best bet for your neck is cosmetic surgery or treatment with Botox or other treatments, like Mopheus8, Dermaroller, etc so I understand.

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