Hi all, well I finally had my referral appointment (having gone through a whole range of horrible symptoms and side-effects and 3 different hrt regimes over the past year). I'm currently on femoston-Conti 1/5 and it has fixed my debilitating insomnia but now I feel a bit groggy all day, so I've dropped some of the doses out, there's no pleasing some people eh?
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So the referral was to my local gynae not an hrt specialist as I'd thought and she was strongly anti-hrt. these were some of her unhelpful comments. Upon me asking if I'm now getting enough estrogen (I think its less than with the other meds I've had) and is it likely to fall again as this gives me horrible symptoms she said "i'm not even going to talk to you about changing your hrt its been changed far too much and your bodies probably flooded with estrogen as it is. She said my estrogen receptors have come to expect the estrogen (just call me an addict
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). She said within two minutes of me being there that "women should only ever be prescribed the lowest dose of hrt for the shortest time and you're already way beyond that". (I've been 6 years on prempak c, and then 5 months on evorel conti and sequi but changed back to prempak and Premarin because of hair loss and then had to drop that after 5 weeks due to quite extreme insomnia). She then said "your hrt's a mess, it's been changed far too much in the past 6 months, I'm referring you on" I asked about utrogestan and oestrogel and she refused to discuss it at all. I was in there 5 minutes at the most. Anyway despite this news, I was so assertive and that's how I'm not feeling totally shite now. My empowerment was from a crash-course and lots of support from here!
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:)I respect her right to her opinion but she should own it As her own, oh and listening to her patients and crediting them with some intelligence might be a better approach. My referral will be to mr hillard in Poole. If anyone has had experience of him positive or not and could pm me, I'd be most grateful as I'm not sure I want to go down this 'expert' 'specialist' route any further. May just go back to the one hrt friendly gp in the practice and discuss it with him.