u/Greenpages22

I started vaginal estrogen last week after experiencing some dryness and UTI issues. I’m not on any other hrt (doctors won’t give it to me), and age 46. My sleep has been okay previous to this, helped by taking Zyrtec I believe. Not great, but okay. My doctor told me to use estrogen cream every other night. Well I swear since last week I am up all night, as if I drank coffee before bed. I can’t fall asleep and I’m waking up repeatedly once I do. This is even on the off nights, when I haven’t used the cream, so I don’t know that using it in the morning would help. Has anyone else experienced this? Could it be because my progesterone is low? My doctor wants me to do hormone testing and then she will “consider” luteal phase progesterone.