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HRT--good or bad?
Dandelion:
--- Quote from: Dawnywanderer on August 27, 2025, 05:34:42 PM ---My friend had said to me.'Get on the HRT and get ready for perimenopause'. So I got on the patches. The ironic thing was that I didn't have any symptoms at the beginning or during the entire time of being on it. That was 5 years ago... I'm 53 now.
2 weeks ago, I chose to come off the patches and my doctor gave me the HRT gel instead. . Still no symptoms. But when I read the inside leaflet on the gel and progesterone tablet, it said that t increases the risk of breast cancer, womb cancer..it terrified the crap out of me.... so I've a few questions to anyone out there who can advise me please:
Will natural HRT supplements be as good as medical prescribed ones?
Is there any point in taking any kind HRT if I don't have symptoms?
Thanks
Dawnywanderee
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It's now been shown that those wrongly scary inserts are based on myth when it comes to oestradiol and progesterone.
The study these were based on studied synthetic hormone users and found a tiny risk.
They should be taken out of the packets of estradiol and progesterone as they are wrong, basically.
I dread to think how many women have been put off hormones by these out of date scare monger warnings.
Same with V hormones, the amount of deaths, limb loss uro-sepsis causes due to no vaginal hormones.
The FDA in the US are campaigning to have them removed.
We should follow suit.
Sorry these scared you but you are totally safe with oestradiol and progesterone.
Davdrew:
I have just started HRT patches and i saw the side effects and its scares the life oiy of me and wonder if i should carry on using the patches or not
Singsong:
Hello !
I have been on Evorel conti patches since May of this year. Unfortunately, it has not reduced the anxiety and insomnia, which are the most troublesome of menopause symptoms.
I am due for a review and would like to try another form of HRT. Has anyone had any relief from anxiety and insomnia symptoms with specific HRT meds?
I know we are all so different and what works for one does not work for all, however, I do not want to become dependent on sleeping tablets - which are all that enables me to have a few hours sleep. I have been taking them for over a year and its concerning me.
Sorry if this topic has been covered elsewhere on the forum. I am so exhausted I am having trouble reading through the posts! :'(
Dotty:
Hi Singsong….you might get more answers if you start a new thread with your question.
If you’re still,getting symptoms then the best thing would be to increase the oestrogen. To do that you would need an oestrogen patch 75 or 100, and a separate progesterone….probably Utrogestan.
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