This is mainly for the women here who’ve had GRS/orchi, but if you experience these then be sure to see your doctor either way ~
Please don’t judge my story too harshly I have terrible mental health lol.
I got an orchi some time ago and when my hormones were tested shortly after, my estrogen was about double what it should be so my endocrinologist reduced my estradiol dosage by half. Shortly after I started experiencing some of what I would later learn are menopause symptoms. I thought they were my body getting used to the changes from the operation and just soldiered through them. By the time I saw my endocrinologist six months later they had become much worse and were pretty severely impacting my quality of life.
I’m on a higher dose now and I’m sad to say for me it is not an instant fix. A week later and I’m still experiencing issues so if anyone knows generally how long it takes symptoms to resolve I’d love to know lol. I’m mad/disappointed in myself for letting things get as bad as they have and worried that they won’t get better. I appreciate y’all reading <3
E takes roughly a month to adjust to the level based on your dosage.
Also, would you be willing to share some of your symptoms?
I lowered my dosage a few weeks ago and it was like I was on edge 24 7 and had to mentally ride that wave.
I had a whole bunch of them including the vasomotor ones like hot flashes and night sweats, but the ones that I’m mainly worried about are that it started making the joints in my hands painful and giving me frequent carpal tunnel flare ups as well as severe dry eyes and made my vision a lot worse
We remember the time our patches denatured due to getting too hot. We had really bad hot flashes until we could get some more. It was hell.
We keep them in the fridge now.
