Thank you everyone for your kind advice. Yes. My GP has been very supportive and offering me HRT without question. I guess my concern that she was ready to write it out there and then without me having time to weigh up the pros and cons. As I said, my only, but awful symptoms are the hot flushes and night sweats. I lie awake nearly all night in a quandry over whether to 'sweat it out' and hope they just stop or take the leap into the world of HRT. Still thinking about it and will let you know how it goes.
Welcome to the forum.
Great that your GP is helping you out, so many of us have a fight on our hands to get there.
Given your problems with fibroids the doc may have put you on conti sooner to avoid any related issue. The benefit is that you should no periods but it might take a we while to settle down remember.
In my own case on sequi it took 6 months or so to help get me back to more of a normal feeling. The same can be said for conti.
There is no need to be anxious or worried. The HRT will stave of some of the more unsavory aspects of our peri / meno journey. You can take a look at the forum as the left panel has some of those problems highlighted. It's just there to point out what could happen and some of these problems are best headed off than treated later.
Recently studies have shown that
one third! of us will continue to have flush/sweats and other symptoms for 10 years+. Some on the forum try an HRT holiday every so often to see how they cope but thats a double edged solution. In seeing if your still having flushes/sweats this can make other problems worse or come back in that time.
How long you take HRT depends on how your quality life is affected without it.
For me I was starting to get to a point where going to the toilet was controlling my life and stopping me doing things.
Once I started HRT things improved so much and I would not want to go back to that worry.
Had I started HRT sooner then I'd have avoided that problem in the first place.
Each of us are different in the way we react to HRT. Some do have problems but most of us breath easier with its help.
Be thankful for the doc you have, a lot of us have not been so lucky and have had to push hard to get the relief and help we should all have access too.
The stuff about menopause being worse for some is rubbish, we are all different and anyone who tries to convince you otherwise is best taken with a pinch of salf and at worst ignored
Best advise, relax, stop worrying and enjoy the flush free zone
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