Tracking estradiol patch — twice-weekly
A small adhesive patch that releases estradiol through the skin. Because transdermal estrogen skips the liver's first pass, it is not associated with the blood-clot risk seen with oral estrogen in large studies — one reason patches are a common starting point.
- Schedule
- Change every 3–4 days — in practice, two fixed weekdays (say, Monday and Thursday).
- UK names
- Estradot, Evorel
- US names
- Vivelle-Dot, Minivelle, Alora
- Route
- transdermal
- In Perity
- A weekly schedule on two chosen weekdays. Reminders fire on your phone only, worded generically — the medication name never appears on your lock screen.
What to log
- Pick your two change days and log the change when it actually happens — a patch changed a day late is real data, not a failure to hide.
- Product leaflets say to rotate application sites. If skin irritation shows up, a note about where the patch sat is worth more than a month of guessing.
- If a patch peels early or falls off, log what actually happened and when. Gaps you can see beat gaps you have to reconstruct at an appointment.
- Symptoms that keep landing on day 3–4 of a patch — right before the change — are exactly the kind of pattern worth having on paper before a dose conversation.
Questions
What if I keep forgetting my change days?
Log the changes you actually make, late ones included. A month of real change-days — even messy ones — tells you and your clinician more than a perfect schedule you didn't follow. Perity's reminders fire on your phone on your two chosen weekdays, with no medication name on the lock screen.
Do symptoms before a patch change mean something?
That's a question for your prescriber — but it's answerable only with dates. If you log symptoms as they happen, Perity can line them up against your change days, so 'it always hits the night before I change it' arrives at your appointment as a dated record instead of an impression.
Symptom guides for estradiol patch
- Brain fog
- Anxiety
- Irritability / rage
- Low mood
- Mood swings
- Forgetfulness
- Hot flash
- Night sweats
- Chills / cold flashes
- Palpitations
- Dizziness
- Trouble falling asleep
- All symptoms →
Schedule sources
- Estradot SmPC (emc 1691); Evorel SmPC (emc 1173)
- Cadences per Perity's sourced schedule reference (emc SmPCs, BMS, NHS, FSRH, FDA — verified 2026-07-01). Cadence facts only, never doses.
Perity informs, never prescribes — decisions belong with you and your clinician.
Educational content, written and maintained by Perity (founder: EiEi), grounded in the sources cited on this page. It is not medical advice, and Perity never interprets your data or recommends treatment. Last reviewed 2026-07-09.
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