Aches and pains after starting HRT

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Hello, I know all sorts of issues can be expecting while your body adjusts to HRT but I'm just curious about people's experiences with aches and pains during that adjustment period. I've had pain for about six months now in my right butt, hip, down my right thigh and more recently my right knee. That's not the problem, I've been seeing a physio about that.

Since I started HRT about 3 weeks ago, I've had way more aches, pains, and generally weird sensations (they're impossible to describe, sometimes like a scratchy kind of soreness), as well as some tingling, in my lower right leg, left leg, arm...all over the place! And as of the last day or so, soreness in my wrists and finger joints.

Can this all be part of adjusting to estrogen? I use 2 pumps of gel daily and about to start progesterone.

I'd be interested in experiences of this. My health anxiety is through the roof these days so any reassurance helps!

I have exactly the same! I suspect it’s more menopause than hrt related though. Lower collagen is what I suspect. I’m not going to take anything for it though. Might drink some turmeric tea as it has good anti inflammatory properties!

It's more likely that the symptoms are from menopause and nothing to do with HRT. After 3 weeks it's unlikely to be estrogen that's causing the issue.

Is your hip 'wear and tear' = osteoarthritis? Have you had a X ray?

I fully accept there could be any number of reasons, and that general aches and pains are only to be expected as I get older. I was just curious because the onset timed with starting HRT.

I've had several physio assessments for the existing issue. Consensus is there's nothing wrong structurally, just caused by muscle weakness in one area and over-compensation in others.

You started HRT presumably because the symptoms were increasingly intolerable.
its not that HRT created them. It’s that you were going in that direction when you started HRT

You might find that it improves with HRT.

Estrogen shouldn't make anything like this worse- only better.