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[Hurdity]

Great news Stumpy - long may it last and that you feel better and better...!
Hurdity x

[Christine662]

 

[JJ]

Stumpy, what a great post. You sound happy, really glad it's kicking in and you feeling better .

[Christine662]

Everything is crossed JJ...

[silverlady]

So pleased Stumpy, I have my fingers crossed for you too 

This is encouraging too

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045%2812%2970075-X/abstract

silverlady x

[Christine662]

thanks Silverlady

[silverlady]

It certainly seems indicates that but I am not good at interpreting scientific data, I usually just go to result and conclusion. I wish I could remember how I arrived at that site this morning, I started off by reading this in the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/9292495/HRT-shows-why-health-scares-cant-be-trusted.html which is reassuring.

In the last few days I have come to look at it all like this, there are thousands of women on HRT, thousands that are on the combination you are on, they are most defiantly not dropping like flies.

Livial is a synthetic steroid that mimics the female sex hormones, it does contain testosterone and is said to increase sex drive. I am wondering if it is like the SERMs that do not stimulate the breast or sex organs. Have not researched it and wonder if it has the potential to increase weight more then conventional HRT.

Please don't get paranoid, I wonder if we discuss things too much, there must be thousands of women who slap on the patch, forget about it and just get on with their lives.

silverlady x

[Sandra]

Came off HRT and am now taking Starflower oil to try to balance the hormones naturally, not as effective but helping a little.

[Christine662]

Just started 4th month of Femeston 1/10...feel like I have gone backwards since starting this months estrogen.....had period last week on prog part, 1st since december.

Got no energy, dizzy, nausea, sad.

Why has this happened when things were going so well

[Bette]

  Stumpy
It's probably just a blip, I had those initially but found that they lessened as time went one. It could also be that your own hormones have dropped; if thing don't improve, maybe you should consider trying a higher dose? I'm on Femoston 2/10 and was saying to my gp only yesterday that I feel like it's "just" enough, that the symptoms are just beneath the surface, somehow.
Bette x

[Christine662]

Thanks Bette xx

[Christine662]

 

Thanks Susan

Morning is worst...takes me hours to get motivated even though i have to work etc. So hard today...no energy at all.

Stumpy xx

[Sandra]

Can anyone advise, I came off HRT in Dec 2010, recently been having the night sweats and daytime flushes with joint aches plus the miseries and all for no reason, I have a great life!
I thought that I would be fine now I´m 60, I was on it from 52 - 58. Doctors don´t want me to go back on it, I was on Tibolone to start then Femoston conti. I am thinking of asking to go back on it especially after finding this brilliant website where most people are so positive about the benefits.
Any advice would be most welcome. Look forward to hearing from you!

[paisley]

If something works why come of it.
I think if you get the right hrt then it can turn your life around. I am yet to discover that. I am on my 4th different hrt and still waiting for something to happen. I  have been on premique, oestrogel, premarin, elleste solo and I am now on progynova. Well I suppose I am onto my next one now which Dr Currie recommended, which is estardot. (I must say that I wish Dr Currie was my gynae as she was really good. Def recommend anyone getting in touch with her much better than my own gynae or gp put together) Hoping for a miracle

[jax]

Deffo GOOD.
within a few weeks of starting HRT (elleste duet 1mg) all my meno probs were gone 95% of the time....6 months in and all was still well but then a few weeks ago I started with adrenalin rushes,palps and mood swings again...
upped hrt to 2mg 5 days ago and today feel great again....feel cheerful ...yay
only thing that i dont like is I went 7 months between bleeds and its now been another 4 months with nothing. This along with water retention is a bummer (gained 10lbs in 1st 3 months which wont shift) but still better than i was before...