Post by red on Sept 11, 2013 17:33:41 GMT
Hello,
I'm new to the forum and tried to do a search, least I be redundant by asking the same ol' questions, but haven't come across what I'm looking for.
For the past year I've had peri symptoms which have progressively become worse. My doctor prescribed Estrogel which I'm taking daily but I'm completely confused with the whole thing. I've been on it for 27 days and the symptoms have gotten a bit better but yesterday I stopped after realizing I should probably be doing the 21 days on, then 7 days off thing as my Dr. suggested. Thing is, I think she assumed I would still be menstruating but I haven't had a period in 3+ months. I tried calling the Dr. but she's away for a week so I'm not sure if I should just stay on it or not.
I'm not sure if it's coincidental, but last night after NOT having my daily dose I had an awful hot flash and spent half the night awake which is pretty much what was going on before I started Estrogel. It's been a VERY screwy year on so many levels other than just having flashes. I'm 44 and wasn't expecting the 'change' to happen quite so soon so maybe I'm just being naive and this is normal. None of my friends who are post have gone through this the same way. They usually say they had a couple flashes and were done with it. No big deal. For me it's been like bad PMS for a year!
I find it very odd too that all the information on hormone replacement is so vague! Some info doesn't even mention the 21 cycle thing and when it does there's no mention how long you're supposed to be off it for. This doesn't help when you already feel like your mind is going!
I'm new to the forum and tried to do a search, least I be redundant by asking the same ol' questions, but haven't come across what I'm looking for.
For the past year I've had peri symptoms which have progressively become worse. My doctor prescribed Estrogel which I'm taking daily but I'm completely confused with the whole thing. I've been on it for 27 days and the symptoms have gotten a bit better but yesterday I stopped after realizing I should probably be doing the 21 days on, then 7 days off thing as my Dr. suggested. Thing is, I think she assumed I would still be menstruating but I haven't had a period in 3+ months. I tried calling the Dr. but she's away for a week so I'm not sure if I should just stay on it or not.
I'm not sure if it's coincidental, but last night after NOT having my daily dose I had an awful hot flash and spent half the night awake which is pretty much what was going on before I started Estrogel. It's been a VERY screwy year on so many levels other than just having flashes. I'm 44 and wasn't expecting the 'change' to happen quite so soon so maybe I'm just being naive and this is normal. None of my friends who are post have gone through this the same way. They usually say they had a couple flashes and were done with it. No big deal. For me it's been like bad PMS for a year!
I find it very odd too that all the information on hormone replacement is so vague! Some info doesn't even mention the 21 cycle thing and when it does there's no mention how long you're supposed to be off it for. This doesn't help when you already feel like your mind is going!
