Thank you. It is great news, although you wouldn't have thought so from my low mood lately. I have been using HRT for some time now, I keep meaning to ask the GP to check my notes and find out how long but don't want to tempt fate and have her mention again about thinking of coming off it. She seems to have given up on that over the past couple of years. It could be 8 - 10 years, but definitely for the last 5 ish I have been using oestrogel (around 3 pumps) and utrogestan (vaginally 100 mg every other day. Having been diagnosed with Hashimotos and treated for under active thyroid for the last 4 years, most of the menopausal issues have been addressed and I guess I have been lucky. Apart from not sleeping well, but that has pretty much been a long term problem, and manageable these days. However, when the recall letter came, I started to Google (bad idea I know) also reading John Studd's recommendations etc. and thought perhaps I could reduce my HRT a bit, having always said that quality of life is so important, but maybe there is a compromise. I only reduced the oestrogel to two pumps but my daughter remarked today that I sounded really 'flat' and that is exactly how I have been feeling. At first I thought it was maybe a bit of guilt, that my cyst after the mammogram was easily dealt with, and I know for others it was a different story. I didn't feel the expected relief, but didn't pay too much attention. Before I had my thyroid and meno symptoms addressed, I felt very much like this. Does anyone know if just reducing oestrogel by a third would have this effect within a couple of weeks? I was also wondering whether the ratio of utro was too great to the oestrogel. I have seen on here that some women have seen Professor Studd privately, and although it is a bit out of my price range, maybe it would be worth it to get my regime checked. My GP has been very obliging re prescribing but she really isn't that knowledgeable in this area. I also have been using a very small amount of testosterone (again after reading other ladies' experiences on here. My husband was prescribed this but didn't get on with the gel and has been changed over to injections so he has quite a stash still that I have been raiding. As you can imagine, one sachet lasts ages but when it runs out I can't see my GP prescribing this. So sorry for writing a book, but the recent scare, which really wasn't much of one, but felt like it at the time, has upset the apple cart. I was quite happy up to that point, but if this is how life would be if I did reduce/stop HRT, I really don't think I want to go back to that place. I had forgotten how miserable I was beforehand. I had terrible brain fog and was very listless and disinterested and probably a bit depressed, although I am reluctant to say that as I know many people have far more reasons to be so than I have.
