Hi Ladies
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Hope you are all ok today. It's been pouring with rain here for two days, but I like rain so I don't mind.
I just got back from a GP appointment, and what a palava that was.
I went, armed with some emails from Dr Currie saying I would be allowed patches and utrogestan.
The doctor has only given me one months supply, because she is not sure whether Utrogestan is allowed to be prescribed in our area.
I've been given estradot and utrogestan. The chemists are ordering it in. I think I have been given the lowest dose estradot.
When I told her other ladies from the UK were being prescribed it on the NHS she said that it differs from area to area, what they are allowed to prescribe.
When I tried to explain bio-identical hormones to the doctor, she asked me what I understood about bio identical and I said the molecule mimics our own prog molecules.
The doctor got confused between natural hormones and bio identical hormones. I told her I had tried the natural route and it didn't work.
The doctor wasn't happy that I was not wiling to try other options. I said I just want the hrt that I have asked for, that Dr Curry agreed.
Dr Curry said the doctors can email her, but this GP did not seem interested in that.
She was also not too fussed about me 'going on the internet' even though I told her lots of GP's refer their patients to this site.
She would not take seriously the fact that I 'spoke to' lots of UK women on here, and I said this site is not some random website.
I said I paid Dr currie, £50 for two questions, and I asked, why, when other women get what they want, am I having all this hassle getting what I want.
I have another appoinntment in a months time with her, and I hope she has found out by then whether I can take utrogestan other wise, if oestradot and utrogestan work for me, I may have to buy them privately, cos once I am on a HRT that works, I wont want to come off.
What do you guys on here think about my GP appointment?