VIVELLE-DOT Reviews (ESTRADIOL)Average Rating: 4.2 (80 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare VIVELLE-DOT with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VIVELLE-DOT | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Peri-Menopausal Hormone Replacement | Some headache, bloating and breast tenderness at first, but that's gone now. | This little .0375 mg. patch in combination with 100mg. daily Prometrium has quite simply given me my life back. Good-bye drastic mood changes, uncontrollable crying, crippling anxiety, brain fog, insomnia, constant daily headache, agonizing 6-9 day migraines, blast furnace hot flashes, dizziness, hair loss, and probably a few other things I've blissfully now forgotten. It took me two years of trial and error to arrive at this particular combination of hormone replacement. I tried a variety of estrogen/progestin formulations, including creams, gels, pills, even Yasmin, but Vivelle Dot (paired with Prometrium) is by far the best. I feel better now that I have in many years. | F | 47 | 6 months | 11/15/2009 | 5 | Hot flashes | some stomach bloating | Had to take a progesterone with it | F | 59 | 6 months .025 1X day | 10/25/2014 | 5 | Hot Flashes menopause symptoms | none | amazing just amazing. I can sleep, no hot flashes, sex life again and less pain in my body. I will say that I got a refill once at Walmart that did not work. Their Generic caused me breast pain and moodiness. Went back to Meijer to get their generic and back to awesome. | F | 53 | 6 months 0.0375 2X W | 1/22/2018 | 4 | Hysterectomy/HRT | Didn't seem to help libido as much as Climara, but sticks better | F | 51 | 8 months | 7/4/2004 | 5 | Hysterectomy/BSO | Minor skin irritation. Glue difficult to remove. | Worked very well stopping menopause symptoms. Lost some weight which caused need for a higher dose. I've had better results with the dot than with various pill forms of estrogen. | F | 55 | 12 months | 12/24/2008 | 5 | Only side effect is that patch gathers lint around sides but it is a necessary evil in order to get estrogen into my body. I take the medicine for gender affriming hormone therapy (GAHT). Basically I was I was born a female. | M | 50 | 12 months TWO 0.1mg 2X W | 5/29/2022 | 5 | Total hysterectomy & oophorectomy | Breast tenderness. Slight rash when removed | I was reluctant to start on any type of HRT following my hysterectomy at the age of 34. Knowing that I would be on it long term, was daunting, and hearing all the stories about breast cancer, made it even more scary. I have had very little side effects from the patch. Lately, I have noticed some breast tenderness (almost feels like my milk is coming in). If I forget to change the patch, then I do get night sweats. So far, I have been very happy. Having a hysterectomy changed my life. I didn't realize how incredibly sick I was, until I had it done. I do recommend continuing to have yearly exams, which is just a good practice anyway. | F | 36 | 19 months .5 2X W | 4/1/2014 | 5 | Peri-menopause | Follow-up from 8-2008: Was having breast tenderness and bloating for several months, but it went away completely. | If you are thinking about stopping because of side-effects, stick it out. I really feel great now and it was worth waiting it out. Took about 6 months to really settle down. Now I have no perimenopausal symptoms, no period (Mirena IUD) and am very happy with this combination! | F | 48 | 1 years | 6/1/2009 | 5 | hysterectomy + BSO | None | It doesn't irritate my skin like the others, it stays on well, and I have relief from hot flashes with no bloating or breast tenderness. | F | 32 | 1 years | 7/14/2003 | 4 | Full Hysterectomy | It caused me to perspire at my bikini area. ALOT. Sometimes, I still had night sweats. | Didn't stick during hot weather months like the summer. Came off when I was sweaty which was embarrassing. Because one of my side effects was that it caused me to perspire in my bikini area, I moved the patch to my behind. Which was way more affective but often left slight rashes when removing. | F | 35 | 1 years 1X O | 3/30/2013 | 1 | Hysterectomy | Severe Weight Gain. Bloating in Abdomen. | It is wonderful in that it eliminate's the hot flashes, vaginal dryness, etc. Since on the patch though, I started having unexplained weight gain and I cannot lose weight no matter how hard I try. I have gained like 35 pounds in a year. | F | 64 | 1 years .0375 2X W | 5/20/2014 | 5 | hot flashes and menopausal issues | None. Brief itching at patch site - but that was until I figured out that skin has to be totally dry before applying. I stopped this med and was switched to combipatch due to concerns that extended use of vivelle dot alone would cause uterine lining problems or uterine cancer. | It is essential that your skin is 100% DRY before you put patch on, or it will be very itchy. Women often apply patch after shower, when skin is too moist. Wait 20 minutes after any water on skin and do not use cream or lotion. | F | 50 | 1.5 years .025 2X H | 9/10/2014 | 5 | Menapause, memory loss, moodiness | None I feel much better having this Option. | I love it, makes me feel so much better and I notice quickly if I miss a dose, symptoms come back within a few days. I am hoping it does not result in a blood clot since I hope to take it long term! Has anyone developed a bood clot as a result of taking this and Prometrium?? | F | 51 | 2 years 2X W | 8/7/2012 | 5 | low estrogen - menopause | If I changed the patch only twice a week then I experienced migraines on day 3 of patch as the estrogen wore off. By changing the patch 3 times a week my estrogen level stayed steady and stopped the migraines from coming. | Started on the Vivelle-dot. Switched to the Sandoz generic version. Sandoz is the generic pharmaceutical division of Novartis (who makes the vivelle dot). It is the same patch and is made in the same facility as the vivelle dot. | M | 2 years .1mg 3X W | 5/28/2017 | 4 | Total hysterectomy in 2012. | O.1mg/day. Change Mon & Thu. Tried BioIdenticals first then Premarin. Severe hot flashes, mood swings anxiety and just crazy! VivilleDot saved me But i had weight gain, itching and redness from adhesive was mild at first but got really Bad and made whelps almost immediately. Couldn't stand the itching!!! I wanted to claw my skin it itched sooo BAD. Switched to Miniville. No itching yet but feel bad. | F | 48 | 2 years 1.56 mg | 10/8/2014 | 4 | premature repoductive, failure | I have not noticed any.maybe more headaches | It seem to help with the sweats and other things my body was going through | F | 35 | 2 years 00.25 | 1/21/2015 | 3 | partial hysterectomy still have ova | Severe headaches Weight gain... | F | 54 | 2 years .0375 | 9/28/2014 | 1 | Hysterectomy/Menopausal Symptoms | This drug cause gave me to get bilateral Pulmonary Embolism that cause me to go into Cardiac Arrest. | F | 54 | 2 years 5mg 2X W | 5/21/2015 Patient History | 5 | hormone replacement | None- it's great. | It's small and has the best adhesive- it's the only patch that I've tried that stays on with sweating from exercise, swimming, etc. | F | 50 | 3 years | 9/13/2009 | 5 | hot flashes | It worked great for me. I didn't experience the side effects that I did with the pill form of estrogen. | F | 54 | 3 years | 10/30/2004 |