hi Anj
Just noticed your message and thought I would let you know how I am getting on with Elleste Duet. I too was worried about starting hrt. I was 40 when peri menopause hit me....I thought hrt risks were scared and I worried the green tablets would give me pmt symptoms. I started taking the 1mg at age 42. I have also had a year off from hrt and now just started back on hrt elleste duet 2mg about 4 weeks ago and I am now 45.
Looking back on life with hrt compared to without it..
Well my experience With hrt is this...the brain fog clears and memory better, mood swings more stable, my joints and muscles feel so much more eased, my frozen shoulder symptoms going....anxiety calms, heart palpitations hardly there, headaches much better...I could add a few more things on here!
It doesn't clear everything up! But makes life so much easier to cope with. I no longer feel like I am 85!
It's may be worth a try for you if your benefits of taking it outweigh the risks.
The first time I took it I had about 7 weeks of my body ...getting used to taking it. But this time around I have no side effects yet apart from the positive effects.
Good luck with it all