Vaginal oestrogen and gyno (man boobs) on husband

[M33R4]

I'd just like to share my story about vaginal oestrogen.

Before I started patch HRT, I decided to try vaginal oestrogen first to see if that would help with painful intercourse due vaginal atrophy brought on by the menopause.

My (younger) husband is a health and fitness person who is super toned and fit. Weeks into me starting vaginal oestrogen, we both noticed he developed gyno, i.e. man boobs. They were clearly a new thing and he had not changed his diet or lifestyle.

I stopped the vaginal oestrogen and his gyno resolved after a while.

I never used vaginal oestrogen again and have been on alternatives.

[Kenka]

That is amazing, I was told that the oestrogen affects only the vagina part of the body which seems untrue after reading this! Have you found something else that works well, hope so.

[M33R4 in reply to Kenka]

I'm using the patch at the moment but bleeding most of the time. I am hoping my body will adjust to it soon.

[M33R4]

Also something important to add to my post is that when you are using the vaginal oestrogen, oral sex also needs to be taken into account as ultimately your partner will have direct mouth contact with ......I guess you understand.

[M33R4]

After reading posts on here, because of my abnormal bleeding on HRT patch, found suggestions that I may benefit from vaginal progesterone instead. Well that too will affect my husband if I wanted to try that sadly.

Perhaps my hubby is super sensitive to such things and this won't be the case with other men.