I can tell you that it took a full 8-9 months before I started regulating estrogen again. Then I was able to start sleeping. Your joint pain is from the lack of estrogen so it could be that it is taking you a little longer to regulate estrogen consistently. I would suggest you can help to lubricate joints a bit by doing some exercises, walking, and even strength training. I think that I avoided some of the joint pain by strength training for all 5 years of the hormone blocker. Hang in there. I do believe it will get better but it is a very hard time. We think once the 5 years of treatment are done everything will be good but it just does not happen that way for most of us.