Thank you so much for your kind words, Paisley! Yes - I wish it were true that i'd ridden off into the sunset, as it were!
Symptoms wise which I KNOW are menopausal still are a few hot flushes, damned adrenal surges (urgh - when do they EVER go)! And generally feeling wrung out all the time. Energy of a slug......compounded by MS flare I've just experienced and MS means heat intolerance, so double whammy there! I'm avoiding the heat and sun today like the plague!
I too was guilty as charged of not letting things settle - never managed 3 months on anything either (but i'm blaming that I was trying to fix MS stuff that I didn't know I had with HRT)! I'm sure the specialist who'll be overseeing me now will keep me in check (someone needs to)!
So - I ABSOLUTELY understand your caution. Been there! But as Mary G says, I think (and this is from my recent experience) that a tiny dose does just leave you dangling in a hormonal half baked state. If it's any help, when I previously used 1 pump of gel AM and PM, that was the best I felt so maybe you could maybe think of doing this with the sprays? Once you get 'steady' - 2 sprays AM or PM would probably 'hold' you so that you don't need to go through the faff of twice daily (I've read about such over at Hystersisters).
No wonder we're a bag of nerves though - as they say over at HS, we've been in this hormonal jungle a looooong time already!
Thank you for the welcome back too, Mary G! xxxx