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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved from the twice/weekly to the weekly patch bc the former was backordered.   [b]Weekly doesn't work as well (runs out on day 5) but it's better than nothing.[/b]  Now the weekly one is backordered too.  And like others, I end up having to call pharmacies and shop around every month to find my preferred brand - I was switched to another brand last year and had bad results. [/quote]

Interesting- do you "feel" it's run out? I'm on the twice weekly patch and I feel like it runs out too at random times but I thought it was all in my head![/quote]

I definitely feel it runs out.  My anxiety starts to spike and other symptoms start to come back (hot flashes).  [/quote]

I feel crampy like I've moved on to the placebo pills in a pillpack. How do you balance out the additional estrogen if you do replace it quickly or up the dosage? Does the doctor need to prescribe more progesterone to balance- or is that pretty stable and you just need "some" progesterone vs. all estrogen?[/quote]

PP here - I haven't done anything to deal with the 'running out' feeling.  Honestly, the constant shortages of the patches is my bigger worry so I just accept this is the way it is going to be.  I did much better on the two/times per week patch but that's been impossible for me to find in the dose and brand that I need to take, so now I am on the once/week patch (which has also become hard to find, sadly)  For a while, the day I was changing my patch meant that my weekends sucked bc of the dosage running out and symptoms returning.  I wanted my weekends with my kids to be more pleasant, so I shifted it so that my worst days of the week are now Tues./Wed, which psychologically is easier for me.  Who knows.  This is so infuriating.  [/quote]

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