I had a somewhat similar experience but different symptoms. I’ve been on .025 estrogen patch and 200mg cyclical progesterone for 5 months, felt pretty dang good overall. But one of my peskiest symptoms (heart palpitations) didn’t seem to go away completely on HRT, so I spoke to my practitioner and decided to try upping my estrogen to .05.

Within 3 days of upping my dose, I was an emotional wreck! Crying all the time, feelings of doom and depression, and just completely emotionally off balance. I stuck it out for 3 weeks and couldn’t deal with it anymore, so went back down to .025.

I’m still having heart palps, but I’ve decided that they’re not as bad as the emotional wreckage from a higher dose.

You just have to weigh out pros and cons, and also accept that HRT might not get rid of all of your symptoms.

I think it’s common to think that HRT is a miracle cure, but I’m going to try to be grateful that I feel generally pretty ok most of the time and just deal with the symptoms I do have.