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[honeybun]

You really need to take a big deep breath and stop panicking.

Phone your surgery and explain the problem to the receptionist and she will send a note to a GP who will issue an equivalent.

You could possible go many weeks before you notice a increase of symptoms.
If you don't think much of HRT anyway then now is your chance to see how you feel without it.

HRT is not an addictive medication with no other withdrawal symptoms other than hot flushes. Think of it rationally.....it is a hormone not a benzodiazepine.

Please try and calm down.


Honeyb
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[Dandelion]

You really need to take a big deep breath and stop panicking.

Phone your surgery and explain the problem to the receptionist and she will send a note to a GP who will issue an equivalent.

You could possible go many weeks before you notice a increase of symptoms.
If you don't think much of HRT anyway then now is your chance to see how you feel without it.

HRT is not an addictive medication with no other withdrawal symptoms other than hot flushes. Think of it rationally.....it is a hormone not a benzodiazepine.

Please try and calm down.


Honeyb
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Hi Honeybun

I just changed my last post before I noticed your reply.
Thank you for reassuring me, I needed that reassurance, knowing what to expect makes the world of difference, I can let it go now.

I am sorry for freaking out, hope I haven't pi$$ed anyone off, apologies to you all, Sarah and Katie.

I guess my tranquiliser experience scared the pants of me. I was not rational and dominated by intrusive worrysome thoughts. I'm so glad I am off tranquilisers but that's another story.

I guess I just don't cope well with hiccups. There seems to be hiccups in everything I do. Things seem to go wrong for no reason other than to cheese me off it seems.
I fly off the handle automatically with no chance to stop and think calmly. I just feel like things go wrong just to cheese me off, but I know that's faulty thinking, because it's too  negatively unbalanced.

I've also read a lot of the suffering from perimenopausal women who are suffering and have heard suicide  mentioned.
I want to live, not die, and I want quality of life, and at the moment, I just have not got that.
Who knows, maybe a different type of hrt will help me get the old me back.

[ellie66]

Dandelion I can put a packet of Femston in the post to you. I have a month left from when I switched to Oestrogel and Utragestan. Message me if you like it.   

[honeybun]

That's ok, we all get upset sometimes.

I'm sure if you explain to the receptionist she will deal with it for you. It's happened to me with other meds and the GP has just issued a different prescription. It might be worth calling round some other chemists to see if they have some then you can just ask for another prescription and then there would be no need to change at all.

Try not to worry.


Honeyb
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[ellie66]

Dandelion sent you message re my spare packet of Femston

[Dandelion]

Dandelion I can put a packet of Femston in the post to you. I have a month left from when I switched to Oestrogel and Utragestan. Message me if you like it.

Hi Ellie

I pm'd you.

Thanks

[Dandelion]

Hi Honeybun

This menopause thing has really scared  me.
Especially when my doctor said I will have to eventually come off it, despite me saying I would rather run the risk and stay on hrt than come off.
I am scared of getting old and immobile with no one to talk to marooned upstairs in my flat.
I usually dismiss these thoughts when they come up and tell myself that I wont be told to come off for a few years yet.

Thanks to Ellie I will have another pack of femoston, so the panic is over regarding going cold turkey.
I won't tell the doctor I have got a spare pack of femoston though. lol

[Mini2005]

Hi Dandelion,
I was going to offer to send you some but see that Ellie is sending you some.  I have 2 packs from when I changed to patches. If you get stuck again, let me know x

[Dandelion]

Hi Dandelion,
I was going to offer to send you some but see that Ellie is sending you some.  I have 2 packs from when I changed to patches. If you get stuck again, let me know x

Hi and thanks Mini

You can send me them if you want. Let me know and I will pm you my addy. thanks

[Greyhoundgal]

I'm glad you got hold of some Dandelion, what a resourceful lot of ladies there are on here   I hope some of your panic has subsided a bit now, it sounds as if you've had a tough time in the past - hang on in there 

[lancashirelass]

boots are  crap they never have stock.  lloyds are really helpful if you have one near. 

[Dandelion]

Hi Ladies

Yes, you are a resourceful lot on here.
I never thought to go to another chemist, but luckily I obtained another three months worth of femoston from Lloyds.
The receptionist I rang yesterday at the surgery faxed a signed prescription upto lloyds which is just near me.
They were really helpful in LLoyds as well.
I should have pills Ellie has sent me tomorrow, so, I have four months supply.
I was planning, when I got half way through the third months supply, to phone boots and ask if they have it in before making a doctors appointment, but I dunno if they can tell you if there is going to be a problem with the supplier though, before they actually  order it.

[Sarah2]

Is there a problem with the supply from the actual manufacturer, or was Boots just out of stock?

There is a difference between there being a manufacturing or supply problem - which means no pharmacies can get hold of any - or have limited stock- and one branch running out.

Did Lloyds tell you there was a problem affecting every pharmacy?

Pharmacies order stock every day. They order most brands of HRT all the time so that they always have some in stock. (I have a friend who's a pharmacy manager and know how stock control is very important!)

What did Lloyds tell you about supply?

[lancashirelass]

lloyds have never failed to get me things.  boots aren't interested in my view. 

[ellie66]

Yes I agree Boots useless. So pleased the Femston I sent you have arrived Dandelion