After being on the patches for around 20 years, suddenly I have a rash at the site of application. It was painful enough that I do not plan to use them again. I do not know if the patches caused all this. They are marketed by MYLAN. com through the local VA.
I am not mobile enough to feel like goin up there to the Portland, Oregon VA to complain in person. Phone and email to them are a joke!
I'm thankful that they gave me average size breasts. :)
Ahabidah, Gwen Brown, or what ever.
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I'm on estradiol patches
Specifically CLIMARA 0.1 MG/24HR DIS BAYE by Bayer. The instructions caution against using the same site over again. I wear it on the inside of a thigh. It's a seven day patch. I alternate legs each week and don't put it over the same spot where the previous patch had been on that leg. I have three spots on each thigh that I use.
That means that I reuse the same spot about every six weeks. I started much later in life than you, so my breasts are minimal. So I still have to use breast forms. I have sensitive skin. I can't uses glue on or self-adhesive breast forms because after about 12 hours, I develop a rash where the skin can't breathe. On occasion, I sometimes have a small (1/4 in. dia.) spots under the Climara patch. But in the course of six weeks, they heal completely.
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Patricia
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My endocrinologist put me on oral meds…….
Years ago when I first began my transition. They are designed to be taken sublingually and are absorbed directly through the tissue under the tongue and into the bloodstream.
Several years ago when I began immunotherapy treatments for my melanoma, my doctor decided to put me on the estrogen patches as they felt there was less chance of an issue with the immunotherapy. Originally I was prescribed a patch which was to be changed twice weekly, but the dosages was too low and I began having hot flashes, difficulty sleeping, etc.
Notwithstanding the issue with the dosage, I didn’t have any issue with the patches. However, the instructions for use did in fact specifically state that they were to be applied to the lower abdomen, and rotated between multiple locations so as not to cause skin irritation from placing the patch on the same location repeatedly.
However, when they increased the dosage they changed me to a larger patch that was designed to be changed once per week. Once again, the patches were to be applied to the lower abdomen and the location rotated regularly. Unfortunately, the once per week patches did not stay on well. They would last about three or four days, and then they would no longer stick. The instructions were that if they came loose, to throw the patch out and replace it with a new patch. This meant that I was going through the prescription in about half the time it was supposed to last. The dosage solved my other issues - but the larger patches also caused some irritation to the skin where they were applied. They gave me a rash which itched terribly. It was my feeling, which the doctor agreed with, that because they were prescribed during the hottest time of the year and I was perspiring more, that my perspiration trapped under the patch was causing the rash and causing them to come off.
Because of that, the doctor put me back on oral meds - just as I was prior to my cancer diagnosis. By this time, my course of immunotherapy was completed and they felt there was no longer an issue with the oral meds anyway. I have been happily on the oral meds since then.
D. Eden
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