53, been on patches for about four months now and I keep reading people raving about oestrogel and honestly I just want to hear what the actual day-to-day difference felt like for people. Not looking for anyone to tell me what to do, genuinely just curious about lived experience. With the patches I notice the days right before I change them the flushes creep back. Like clockwork, Tuesday evenings are grim. I've started writing it down because I couldn't work out if I was imagining it or not. Turns out I wasn't imagining it. Sleep is still all over the place which is the bit that's getting me down most. I'll have a decent run of four or five nights and then three absolutely horrendous ones where I'm soaked at 2am, then again at 4, then I just give up and go make tea. I'm going to bring my sleep notes to my next review because I think it tells more of a story than me just sitting there saying "yeah still not great". Also randomly started having cold things for tea on bad weeks, salads, gazpacho out of a carton, anything that doesn't involve standing over a hot hob. Tiny discovery but it does help with the evening flushes at least. Anyway. Patch people, gel people, just... how did it feel for you? x