I haven't posted on here for nearly 10 years because I have been an HRT success story. In 2009 I started getting menopause symptoms, night sweats, hot flushes, painful joints, hair loss, depression, the works. My gynaecologist put me on HRT (oestrogen patches and progesterone pills) and I started to feel better in a week, had no side effects and haven't looked back. My gynaecologist said I could stay on it as long as I wanted and so did my GP. Ten years on and I have a new GP who will not continue to prescribe HRT for me.I can't afford to get it privately from the consultant so I agreed to trying to get off it but only if I was weaned off it slowly. So far I've gone from 75 micrograms to 50 and then I was supposed to go to 40 but due to the national shortage of HRT my pharmacist couldn't get it so I had to go onto 37.5 instead. For the last 2 weeks I've started to get occasional night sweats and today I've had hot flushes. I suppose as the HRT dose gets lower and finally finishes I'll be chucked back into menopausal symptoms and my life will be miserable again. I'm really worried. Anyway I just wanted to post to say that HRT can be brilliant, it's just the coming off it bit that can be rubbish.