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I just bought a dozen Climara Forte patches the 25cm with 7.6mg E that you`re suposed to wear for a week.
I`m wondering what that would be equiv to in Tablets?

I take 8mg EV per day, 2x2mg morning and the same in the evening. if I wore a patch, how many tablets would I need to take to stay on the same dose as now? oh, I go Sublingual too.

I was hoping I could use these as a Back-up in case an order ever got delayed for some reason.

Katie, 0.10 patch is equivalent to about 1.8 mgs of oral.  If you are doing most or all sublingually, please be careful.  I have never heard of good doctor's that would o.k. such a hot dose.  Many G.D's shoot for about 180 - 200 in the blood stream of MTF's.  Anything over that and the concerns for heard attacks, liver, pancreas and DVT's jump sky high.

My G.D. told me that he has several patients at or above 180 using about 6 to 8 mgs oral.  And that is STRICTLY oral, not sublingual.  I have been on 0.150 mg patches for about 1 month now, I have put an inch on my hips and almost that on my butt.  My breasts have filled up some, to the point that I am wearing 38 D bra 90 % of the time.  The other 10% it's 40 C.  So, other than being naturally slow, I am making progress.  AND I am NOT hanging 4 -10 patches off my ass to do so.  LOL