WOW what a difficult thread to read, but, thanks DG for starting it because women have had chance to air their fears and discover common grounds.
Anxiety, I have always been a nervy person and a worrier, but 5 years ago, this different sort of anxiety crept in and has not gone away since.
Dementia, yeah, that scares the sh*t out of me. A warm corpse with a pulse.
Vulnerability, I didn't even get up yesterday, I stayed in bed. Well, a friend called round to borrow something and I tried to stay up, but within five minutes I was back in bed.
I'm six days into 50mcg evorel, the doctor would only prescribe 25mcgs, and I knew that wouldn't work, given my sauna like disabling flushes and all the other meno symptoms.
The patch has started to work, but I am still getting flushes, so I will probably give it a bit longer, but, I may move to 75mcg evorel.
I kept losing it when I wasnt on hrt. Everything was a worry, and I cried loads.
Dunno why some doctors begrudge hrt, its not a controlled drug like opiates or tranquilisers.
I would understand doctors begrudging addictive controlled drugs, for obvious reasons but why begrudge hrt?
My heart goes out to all you girls who are suffering, maybe you need a higher dose of hrt, I dunno?