Thanks for all your replies everyone.
Hurdity,
I don't have an appointment with the specialist, the doctor said he's contacting one himself for advice. I haven't received a letter yet as I only saw the doctor on wednesday.
There no other doctors here that know anything about HRT.
I had the same issue over the testosterone with first gp I saw here who was anti-HRT and tried to persuade me to come off. She made me see a specialist who luckily OK'd it and it was prescribed.
I?ll just have to wait then until Dr Currie restarts her email service, God knows how long that will be! I don't mind paying as that prescription advice thing you mentioned sounds helpful.
I assumed that doctors can do exactly as they please regarding prescribing.
The doctor did ask me if I've ever smoked, are overweight, ever had a leg blood clot or heart attack and if there's anyone in my close family who's had breast cancer to which I answered no to all. He said 'that's fantastic? so I took that as a good sign, if he was adamant about cancelling it he wouldn't have asked me anything.
He asked me how long I've been on HRT as well which shows he hasn't even bothered to read my notes.
I asked him if he was going to stop everything and he said no, but he did say he's not going to reauthorise without advice from the specialist, the same thing as with that first gp I mentioned above so it all depends on that I guess.
it's really going to screw things up if he does decide to change or stop anything at this time. How on earth am I going to visit a meno clinic or specialist of any kind if they?re not open???
Can doctors actually stop a treatment and leave you without anything? That's the impression I got. Even though he did listen to me and asked questions he was still hellbent on consulting a specialist no matter what I said.
Can anyone give me advice about buying this stuff online?
I've read that you can get patches and Vagifem from online pharmacies without your gp being informed, but not Utrogestan, so how could I get the progesterone? I have seen Evorel Sequi for sale but how would I go about adjusting the progesterone part that's built into them? I would need to use 3 patches at a time as I'm on 150 and this would increase the progesterone dose also.
If I can sort this out I won't need to worry about all this doctor crap, just the cost of buying it.
I have no possible way of going to Spain etc and nobody who goes there to get it over the counter.
I have started leaving my patches on all week instead of changing them twice weekly to make them last twice as long incase they get stopped altogether.
Thanks again for all your help
Mandee