Yes, I will phone directly when I know what specialist I've been referred to

Got to wait for the referral letter. I worry that, with all the Covid heart-related issues, there might be some wait... unless I go private, which I will do if I have to. But would rather not have to - since all this health stuff this year has cost a phenomenal amount of money...
Yes, I know ectopic beats are usually fine - but when they're not just one or two, or for a few minutes, but go on for hours and hours and hours.... it gets exhausting. It is quite a subtle feeling which it has taken me a while to identify and realise is happening. Often, when I thought I was just 'anxious', I had these ectopic beats. Before HRT, I had the classic skipped beat thing - and I knew that was due to hormones, it only happened in the evenings before bed and I didn't worry about it. It was very different to this light fluttering feeling which goes on forever which I have now. It feels like there is a small bird in your chest.

It is easy to ignore for a short period but when it goes on all night for months, it gets absolutely exhausting...
I'm really glad to hear you had a better night. I agree that hot flushes are unlikely to be caused by high estrogen and are a pretty definite low estrogen symptom and that you should try to get back to exactly what you did for 20 years which worked so well!
I know everyone talks about keeping estrogen levels constant but I sometimes do wonder if our bodies actually don't like the stable and constant dose of estrogen. Because that's very unnatural and not something they would have previously been used to. What if there is some naturally fluctuating cycle we should be trying to emulate, across a month. There is a combined pill which tries to do this (Qlaira) - it starts with high estrogen and low progesterone, then it gradually decreases the estrogen and increases the progesterone - before the bleed. So sometimes I wonder if our bodies find the static and constant nature of HRT difficult. But then that doesn't fit with keeping changes gradual and everything we thought we knew....
