changing the dose and what followed

My prescription was adjusted about six weeks ago, a higher dose of the oestrogen, and I kept meaning to write something down about it but kept not doing it. So here it is now, a bit late. The first couple of weeks felt strange in a way I found hard to name. Not bad, just unfamiliar, like wearing someone else's coat that is almost your size. My joints were still stiff in the mornings but I noticed I was moving more freely by mid-afternoon, which had not been happening before. The thing that surprised me most was something to do with my daughter. She was home for a weekend and we had a conversation that would normally have left me feeling scraped out, the kind where she is fine but I am not, and I was just... present in it. Not detached, present. I do not know if that is the dose or something else shifting. Libido is a complicated subject and I will not try to summarise it in a paragraph. Something is different there too, not resolved, just different. I have a review booked and I am going to try to be honest in it rather than cheerful.