Im 54. I went on Evorel Conti patches (which are 3.2mg Estradiol and 1.2mg Norethisterone) twice a week a couple of years ago after a year of cyclical tablets (which I hated).
The patches have been great at completely eliminating my hot flushes, poor sleep and general panicky feeling-shit up until now. When I had to come off them a bit to have breast lumps checked out (benign) all the symptoms came flooding back to the extent that I really feared for my ability to function.
But over the last few weeks I've been seeing the return of the old symptoms, not at their worst, but noticeable.
The first time I put it down to hurriedly slapping a patch on the same place I'd had the old one instead of rotating, and just replaced it early on the other thigh, but I've been getting general menopausal symptoms fluctuating over the week ever since.
I've not really researched dosing much, just been happy to take whatever my GP handed out, so I don't know what my options might be. Are there higher dose patches? Should I ask to switch to a pump?
Does HRT sometimes just stop working?(please don't tell me that). Is it normal for doses to need increasing so far into menopause?
TIA