HRT - everything worse

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Hi all

looking for advice, similar experiences and hopefully positive outcomes. I started HRT a couple of weeks ago. I have the Evorel 50 patch & didn’t notice any side effects, however, I’ve now had 5 days of progesterone at night and everything feels worse. My mood is rock bottom, I have headaches and exhaustion is next level. I’m starting to feel despairing and that I’ll never enjoy life again. Does it get worse before it gets better?! Did anyone get used to the progesterone? I really didn’t want a coil as I’m worried about not being able to get it removed easily if it doesn’t agree with me as it’s so hard to get appointments where I am.

@JinglingSpringbells thank you very much. My GP was a bit useless and it was a battle to simply get HRT, so I think some of these are options are a bit beyond their scope, however, you make a good point about a coil privately and so thanks for that. I have a small budget for this luckily, so that is something I could look at doing. Second day in a row of using the progesterone vaginally though and feeling much better so far, so fingers crossed i can just do this!