Utrogestan tablet reviews

Prior to starting HRT in October 2024, I was really struggling with anxiety, depression, my moods were up and down I “despised “my husband and older children and would lose my patience alot faster than I should which wasn’t normal for me and for no reason gained a lot of weight literally over night, I had no energy and being very active with twins boys born in 2016 and my employment being very physical (trying to stay fit at the gym nothing i did worked) and really bad hormonal acne, very dry skin my moisturiser i had used for years wasn’t enough along with hair loss, aching joints and high blood pressure in general just struggling with everything physically and mentally. I resigned from my nursing job of 15 years due to my low mood and as I couldn’t function (brain fog and anxiety) properly and severely depressed and suicidal I took a year off working hoping that no longer working night shift would improve my sleep pattern and mental and physical health which it didn’t. I was constantly at the drs with all these symptoms for about 3 years had affected my mental health and blaming working night shift for 10 years was the reason and had affected me especially the insomnia and poor sleep patterns couldn’t sleep at night but would get sleepy during the day at around 3pm i was exhausted and would crash out and sleep for 3-4 hours. I was prescribed blood pressure medication (went to hospital numerous times with chest pains thinking I was having a heart attack from anxiety because I thought i was dying was told that it was stress and/or anxiety given great advice for weight loss(even though i was already exercising and eating healthy doing fitness challenges) took pain relief everyday for aching joints, tested for cushing disease and thyroid all came back negative, sadly never did the dr consider it could be perimenopause(maybe because i was in my mid to late 30s when this all was happening) so i started researching as I was concerned about my well being and why nothing was helping I came across perimenopausal symptoms which I had majority of them and ticked most of the boxes, thankfully my dr agreed and I started HRT. After starting HRT Estradot 0.25mg (i’m still currently taking this dose) at the beginning there was a bit of nausea, head aches and boob tenderness which wasn’t to bad, after about 3 weeks everything calmed and I gradually began to notice a difference in my moods I felt more positive and relaxed, no more anti depressants and anxiety medication, my energy and endurance improved, no aching joints and sore shoulder, after 3 months my sleep improved after 6 months physically noticed my exercise was starting to pay off and felt my muscle tone improving my acne improved and no longer needed antibiotics (had been taking antibiotics for 3 years daily for hormonal acne) I only get acne around when my period is due which is normal, skin feels hydrated and not itching all over, less hair loss hair feels like it has more volume and life my periods are regular and not every 2 weeks and flooding my pad, less brain fog and NO hot flushes! I have recently started on Oestrogen pessaries (6 weeks ago) for vaginal dryness which wasn’t an issue when first starting HRT until lately which has improved and feel more comfortable in my vaginal area when having intercourse. I feel that HRT has improved my life immensely and i feel like myself again and my family are alot happier too.

I have used other hrt products and had non or little side effects. This product is terrible. Why are the patches so huge. It constantly irritates the skin no matter where I put it, and I develop a rash around the patch. They are so big that I can not find a suitable place for them that will not scrunch up when I move around.

My experience has been good, but not as good as I had hoped for. I no longer have night sweats and sweaty arm pits when I wake up which is great. However, I still have waves of insomnia. These can go for 3 days.

hrt returned my life

Each time I change the type of HRT or the dose I do experience breast tenderness that takes around 6-8 weeks to resolve

I am 54 and towards end of perimenopause, my only way of knowing this is because I have had 2 periods in the last year. Around 47-50 I had symptoms of joint pain and severe depression, which I now realise was peri menopause( at the time GP treated individually) at 50 immediate insomnia, period every other month, hot sweats, low mood and started HRT oedtrogel pump X3 and utrogestan, I took it for 18 months, sweats stopped but low mood continued - I had no happy high even with oedtrogel increase, continued with period pain, severe itchy dry vulva and insomnia. decided that solving only 1 symptom didn't warrant staying on the HRT. I came off easily and flushes stayed away. over the span of year and a half , over span of year and half I went back to GP to focus on trying to manage severe vulva dryness and itching, change in labia shape and colour changes with no joy. I tried different topical estrogen vaginal creams, both increased a noticeable aggressive mood change. Then I gave up and found various alternatives for itchy vulva which intermittently help but still have to manage. now at 54 , hot flushes have come back during the night and new shock of finding sex painful so Google suggests vaginal atrophy- ooh happy days. It seems a continual quest just to feel okay is relentless. Currently thinking HRT again for osteoporosis but only when periods are clear of a year, the thought of a coil with vaginal atrophy makes me feel sick. In the meantime what does seem to work are supplements recommended by nutritionist for mood and mental calmness and sleep. I will ask GP to try different vaginal oesteigen to help vaginal atrophy. I will ride the hot flushes out. For the most part of my mid life has been managing symptoms.

Reduced anxiety, depression and irregular heart rate

Was doing well on HRT however when my mood felt flat I upped my dose of estrogel and had bad vertigo. This could have been completely unreleased however I panicked and came off HRT. Then had an avalanche of peri symptoms so am considering going back on it with a lower dose. The worst symptoms without the hrt are the anxiety, brain fog, broken sleep, mood wings and more recently migraines. Never suffered with headaches before.

It has improved symptoms overall however they occasionally creep back

Generally good. Only change is no more heart flutters.