Thoughts on Estrogel?? Patches just not staying on

I am increasingly having that problem too.  Years ago it was not a problem.  Have the manufacturers changed the glue, I wonder?  They loosen in the shower and where they don't stick, we don't get the oestrogen.  I find them among my bedsheets, too.  I have tried using micropore tape too and yes, it is hardly sexy, and gives me more glue to upset my skin.

I do use estrogel to top up and that is pesky to have to apply nightly after a shower.  When I use estrogel because I am not getting enough from the patches, because of the above, etc., or I just need more oestrogen.  I do find an immediate affect (I feel the loss of oestrogen within a couple of hours when the patch is not working, or I have forgotten to replace it), but I have not used estrogel only on a daily basis.

A menopause website says to apply some low heat from a hair dryer on the patch once the patch is applied, then some talcum powder to stop the perimeter glue from sticking to clothing.  I don't use a hairdryer and one is stashed in the nether regions of a cupboard - we should not have to go to such lengths.

We need to get the message across to the manufacturers.  The other option is to find a compound chemist who makes the oestradiol pellets for implants.  I was on them for years and they were the best thing ever.  You still need a script from your dr to order and purchase them.

I am not sure about the estrogel, but when I first started this roller coaster ride, the doctor put me on the patches and they were great.  Unfortunately, they didn't stick to my skin.  Three days was the max.  Quite expensive like that, and you can't just refill them early, ya know...  So I quit that and went to the pills.  Never could find ones that worked.  Always felt like a spayed dog.  So then after all those trials of the pills, they started saying that HRT caused cancer.  So nobody would give me a Rx for them anymore.  Then time goes by, I feel less and less myself, and find out from my daughter a few weeks ago, that they have now retracted that whole cancer scare thing.  I am going Tuesday for the pellet.  I see now that the patch glue has not improved.  So I guess I am making the right decision with trying the pellets.  I can't stand feeling this way any longer.  And can't believe how doctors, even women, act as though once you are beyond child bearing years, you are pretty much useless except as a maid around the house.  I am pretty sure I paid for the education of the last provider I saw, just the other day, who was at the most 25 years old.  When I told her I would rather be dead than to spend the time I have left on earth feeling this way, she very non chalantly said she was sorry and offered me some cream for vaginal dryness.  This was right after I told her there is no "action" down there since over a year.  Why would I need cream if I have no desire???  I am appalled at what passes for medical care these days.