Hi, first time posting on here and I'm desperate for some advice. A few months back I started flushing randomly after eating, when the heating was on, while cooking etc but my entire face was bright red and burning and it took 3 hours to go. Long story short looks like it was the combined pill as I stopped it and the flushing stopped. I went to the Dr who said my blood pressure was too high to go on another (I'm massively stressed at the mo with all of this) and come back in 2 weeks. Since stopping the pill I feel absolutely dreadful, I've been on it 16 years back to back to prevent migraines and now I've got headaches, migraines and overwhelming feelings of depression. It's a struggle to get up on a morning and I'm scared with how low I am. I'm 44 so pretty sure I'm in perimenopause, I'm thinking of asking the Dr for the mini pill and oestrogen patches. Does anyone have any advice/experience? I can't cope with feeling like this anymore. Thank you.