Lynne

Jun 18 · Posted

Sixty-one and I've had the patch, I've had the gel, and honestly I'm not sure I could tell you which one 'worked' because life kept getting in the way of actually noticing properly. The patch would catch on my waistband, I'd forget which day I changed it, the gel felt fine but I couldn't tell if that was the gel or just a quieter week. What I do know is that the nights were the thing that finally broke me. Not the flushes in the day, you sort of manage those, open a window, sit near the door, eat something cold. It's waking at 2am absolutely soaking, then lying there rigid, then being completely useless the next day. I've started writing it down now, just in a cheap notebook by the bed. Time I woke, how bad, whether I got back to sleep. Three weeks of it now. I don't know what I'll do with the data but it feels less chaotic than trying to describe it to someone from memory. My GP last time asked how often and I genuinely said 'a lot' like a child. Never again. Anyway. Not looking for anyone to tell me what to do. Just curious whether others found one form noticeably different from the other, sleep-wise especially. x