Hi heavenlyblue - all I would say is that I have high blood pressure and no one has ever worried about me increasing my oestrogen alongside it. The issue for my GP was that I was having so many panic attacks and permanent anxiety she said no wonder your blood pressure is permanently high and that if she got the anxiety down the blood pressure would stabelise more along with the blood pressure medication and the two would work hand in hand - more oestrogen would help lower the blood pressure cos it knocked out the permanent anxiety.
Glad you got your testosterone.
Thank you for replying. Well I suppose as it's the first time I have seen this private GP (Dr McCulloch), she probably wanted to be on the safe side. Its frustrating though. Still waiting to hear back from my surgery to get a 24 hour BP monitor, its been over a week since I requested one. So I am still on 50mcg Evoril Conti.
Re the Testogel. Anyone else get issues trying to get the Chemist to prescribe it? Took the script into the Chemist. She spent ages at the pc trying to find where she could get it from and then asked me if I knew this was for Men only. I said I did. She then said she needed to speak to the GP to make her aware this isn't licensed for women. I said she obviously knows this. That is what the script was for. But this Chemist had obviously not prescribed it for a woman before so looked quite confused and said she had to speak to her. She rang the clinic but Dr McCulloch was with someone so she left a message for her to ring her back.
Dr McCulloch had emailed me, with a letter she had done for me to send to my NHS GPs, letting them know what she was prescribing me. She also was checking I had received the script so I told her the issue and that could she ring the Chemist back. Was also told it would be about £46....at least it lasts a long time!
Why is it so hard for women going through this to get the help they need with the NHS? So many hurdles.
