Hello lisa_w,
I've read your other posts and considering your age and symptoms I'd say you are definitely entering perimenopause and blood results will vary, not very useful. The choice of starting HRT is yours. If you feel you can't cope with the symptoms you can try HRT and see how it goes. It's a different experience for each woman, some feel relief in weeks, some have to persevere for at least 3 months to feel improvement, some will have side effects and will have to tweak the dose or change to another type of HRT.
Conolly X