When injections will work?

[AnonyMs]

I switched from patches and gel to implant. I'd expect that's similar in principal.

Do you have your blood levels before and after switching? Mine were low to start, and tripled. A few days after the implant I got euphoria from the estrogen. That was awesome. My breasts started hurting again after a long time of not. That was even better.

My endo tells me some people don't absorb well from patches and I must have been one of them. Longer term I've had more changes, but I was on low dose HRT before and now I'm not.

I believe keeping track of blood levels is critical. Some methods work better than others, and are different for different people. The best way of finding out what works is measuring it. Its also safer.

[galaxy]

I will get my new blood levels on monday ... i dont think theres anything with a huge different. I feel it ... 2 days i'm depresssive - maybe of some higher levels of estrogene that i had before. Than come 2-3 days with a good felling. After that 2 bad days ... in summary no effects on my body, nu hurting of my breast, nothing. I got this injection and i feel absolutely nothing. Maybe i must ask my doctors if i got any kind of water the last 2 years. Drinking 2 beers has a lot more effects ... 1000% more - somewhere in this range.

[Rachel]

I inject into my outer thigh muscle and alternate legs. I inject every 10 days and at a transitioning dose. My T is between 20 and 36 ng/dl. Where I go they do not look at E in the blood. They look at T, how you feel and a lot of items from the blood panel. I feel better than I did at age 11. I am going to ask to go to 7 day cycles. I feel the  E going down at day 8 and it takes a day after an injection to feel better.

[Lady_Oracle]

I wish my docs were like that Cynthia. My dose is being lowered (injections) because they didn't like my e levels and I felt great on the new dose, no ill side effects. I was on it for about two months. So they put me back on the lower dose I was at before. The whole reason my dosage was increased was because I was starting to feel like something was off plus a few other negative side effects. I know my body very well and I've been on hrt for a good bit of time now to know when something is wrong with my body. Upping the dosage fixed those issues.

[Mariah]

Maybe you can get your doctors to change the frequency. When doctor lowered my dose and bad side affects were being seen we changed the frequency and the dosing slightly and that helped a lot.
Mariah

I wish my docs were like that Cynthia. My dose is being lowered (injections) because they didn't like my e levels and I felt great on the new dose, no ill side effects. I was on it for about two months. So they put me back on the lower dose I was at before. The whole reason my dosage was increased was because I was starting to feel like something was off plus a few other negative side effects. I know my body very well and I've been on hrt for a good bit of time now to know when something is wrong with my body. Upping the dosage fixed those issues.

[natashaX]

Pills can be  chore and the amount you have to
Eat to have the right effects is stupid
Patches cause crashes nuff said
Injections are the best
Softest skin
Best moods with fewer freak out nights

[Leila]

Pills can be  chore and the amount you have to
Eat to have the right effects is stupid

Agreed. I found it a hassle to remember when to take so many of them and at the right time.

Patches cause crashes nuff said

Really? I'm on patches now and haven't had any crashes since switching over from the pills. If there's any negatives to wearing them, then it's more likely you'd get them falling off, developing a rash from the adhesive or poor adsorption through the skin. I haven't experienced any of the commonly reported negatives using them, but I have found they can crease up and cut into my skin at the sharpened point.

[Mariah]

Where I had the poor absorption, rash to the adhesive and there wanting to fall off even shortly after being applied. After I switched to injections it took weeks for the rashes from the last patches to go away.
Mariah

Agreed. I found it a hassle to remember when to take so many of them and at the right time.

Really? I'm on patches now and haven't had any crashes since switching over from the pills. If there's any negatives to wearing them, then it's more likely you'd get them falling off, developing a rash from the adhesive or poor adsorption through the skin. I haven't experienced any of the commonly reported negatives using them, but I have found they can crease up and cut into my skin at the sharpened point.