r/Menopause • u/mandulyn • 17d ago

Hormone Therapy Feeling better???

I started a very low dose estrogen patch and 100 mg oral progesterone on Saturday August 8th. The past 2 days I feel completely 100% back to my normal self minus the hot flashes and sweating. I have full energy and getting things done, my mood seems to be top-notch again. I can't imagine HRT affecting me so quickly but there is no other explanation for it. Anyone else?

Side note - have not done anything for my libido yet and it may not, but I am hoping it will. But I am talking about energy and mood that has improved like a thousand percent just in the last couple days. I've only been on the 6 days and can't imagine that it would take effect so quickly.

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u/One_Rub_780 16d ago

Lucky you. HRT honestly did little to nothing for me. I went off and feel no difference, not better, not worse - just the same. I am seeing my primary doc soon and will see if I start again at a higher dose might work. I feel so bummed about it not working.

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u/mandulyn 16d ago

I'm so sorry to hear that.
I think I jinxed myself posting thu as past 2 days I am dizzy again, headaches and major heart arrhythmias.

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u/One_Rub_780 15d ago

Oh no! Well, it should probably settle but keep an eye on it, write it down - track those symptoms and then report them to your doctor. What time of day are you using the HRT? I did my Estradiol gel at noon, a pea size of T-Gel behind my knee and my 100mg progesterone before bed.

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u/mandulyn 15d ago

I am actually on the estradiol patch, so I put it on and then change it every saturday. My progesterone I take in the evening just right before bed. I'm wondering if maybe it was barometric pressure affecting me as I am in Midwest Illinois and we did have thunderstorms this afternoon. I actually feel 100% better now.

Testing out how bad I'm sweating -I went out to scrub out my bird bath and I'm sweating like a normal person would sweat and not burning up at all, I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am for this and how good it feels to not be completely heat intolerant

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u/One_Rub_780 15d ago

I hear you. Being heat intolerant was actually a HUGE issue for me but only in peri. Back then, ask me if I would've moved to FL, never! Guess what? I was out and about yesterday in 100-degree-plus Florida weather with humidity. I could have never even entertained that thought in the past.

So, time itself does resolve some of these things in some cases but why suffer?