Help with .1 Vivelle patch!

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I wonder if anyone has had this experience and can perhaps offer some insight or solution...

I am one year post TAH (ovaries intact) for complex hyperplasia, found to be atypical per pathology report.

I have been on a .75 mg. Vivelle dot, changing every two days. I had some old .1 Vivelle dots from over a year ago that I had tried then and abandoned after a couple of months because although I felt MUCH MUCH better on the .1, the extra hormone in it made my hair and skin very oily, made me a bit jittery, and made a cyst in my breast act up and get very sore, and in my opinion caused the growth of some cysts that I had to have removed on my forehead, which I had never had before. However, I felt pretty good on it - my arthritic hip (or so I've been told) cleared up COMPLETELY, my bladder no longer felt irritable, and I slept better.

So, last night, in desperation from pain in the hip and depression and just feeling lousy, I put on one of the .1's that I had left over. Voila, I slept great, I woke with NO pain in the hip, and my mood is better today. BUT the cyst in the breast has now swollen and is sore. Is there anything I can do to be able to tolerate this level of estradiol without activating that cyst? And does anyone know if a cyst swelling and getting sore is a bad sign for things to come?

Thank you all for any help.

Happy New Year to everyone!

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[Guest guest]

Not sure how to explain this to you - is only something I have come

to fully understand in the last year - after 10yrs. of trying to

figure this hormone mess out.

Since starting the pellet therapy and doing tons of hormone labs, I

have learned that there are several stages or levels of imbalance

that cause certain symptoms.

If you can, imagine a tetter totter on a playground - there are two

seats - at one end sits your E and at the opposite one sits your T.

Ideal balance is to have your E on the high end with T on the lower

end. This is how our bodies were operating prior to the pre-meno yrs.

As pre-meno hits and we move into full meno., our tetter totter

slants, or slowly tips in the opposite direction, with T sitting on

the high seat and E on the lower end. As this happens, the different

levels of symptoms begin . . .

When you have symptoms of oily hair & skin, jittery, cyst growths on

your forehead - this means that E is not quite high enough for the T

on your tetter totter - E can be sitting above T, but may be just

a 'tad' higher, and the closer the two hormones are on a 'level

tetter totter' the more the 'too much T for the E symptoms' become

apparent.

Until you bumped up that patch - the T was not fighting as hard

against the E for 'dominance' because your levels of E and T were

futher apart, so symptoms were at another 'stage' namely,

the 'definite, unmistakeble signs of low E stage' - the arthritis,

insomnia, irritable, depression, etc.

Does this make sense???

If you have any more patches, you might try an additional one, or

half . . .

hb

>

> I wonder if anyone has had this experience and can perhaps offer

some

> insight or solution...

>

> I am one year post TAH (ovaries intact) for complex hyperplasia,

found to be

> atypical per pathology report.

>

> I have been on a .75 mg. Vivelle dot, changing every two days. I

had some

> old .1 Vivelle dots from over a year ago that I had tried then and

abandoned

> after a couple of months because although I felt MUCH MUCH better

on the .1,

> the extra hormone in it made my hair and skin very oily, made me a

bit

> jittery, and made a cyst in my breast act up and get very sore, and

in my opinion

> caused the growth of some cysts that I had to have removed on my

forehead,

> which I had never had before. However, I felt pretty good on it -

my arthritic

> hip (or so I've been told) cleared up COMPLETELY, my bladder no

longer felt

> irritable, and I slept better.

>

> So, last night, in desperation from pain in the hip and depression

and just

> feeling lousy, I put on one of the .1's that I had left over.

Voila, I slept

> great, I woke with NO pain in the hip, and my mood is better

today. BUT the

> cyst in the breast has now swollen and is sore. Is there anything

I can do

> to be able to tolerate this level of estradiol without activating

that cyst?

> And does anyone know if a cyst swelling and getting sore is a bad

sign for

> things to come?

>

> Thank you all for any help.

>

> Happy New Year to everyone!

>

> Gael

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