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Joint pain that turned out to be oestrogen

Started 3 November 2025 · 11 replies · 92 hearts · read 720 times

AbramAmsterdam, NL · 3 November 2025
9 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Joint pain that turned out to be oestrogen Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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WellsChester, UK
#1

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#2

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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Birdie BWhitstable, UK
#3

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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LeniLeipzig, DE
#4

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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CoralieMarseille, FR
#5

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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FenellaCirencester, UK
#6

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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HollyBath, UK
#7

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#8

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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BirdieMargate, UK
#9

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#10

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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GwynforLlanidloes, UK
#11

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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