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[Postmeno3]

#Drew26
I'm with an NHS specialist clinic. They refuse to test and insist on symptoms only. I'm 69, postmenopausal two decades. Any guesses how much oestrogen I'm producing? 😂 Plus, my understanding is testosterone drops dramatically after hysterectomy. The thought of trying to get the oestrogen right before the testosterone can be added could see me become a very passive-aggressive geriatric! 😂 Testosterone is extolled for energy, motivation, mood etc etc etc. Yet it seems  we have to almost falsify libido issues to be considered, even if those exist too. The one symptom green light is archaic. Am on the Newson waiting list, but I feel it's wrong that people have to go to those lengths and then it triggers angst with getting NHS gps to honour prescriptions, meaning increased testosterone to deal with the angst! 😂 Round and round it goes, but maybe the Utrogestan is your greater ally, too?

[Drew26]

#Postmeno. 

I'm shocked they won't test! I know my GP wouldn't have tested but very glad the menopause specialist did. I'm post menopausal for 5 years now so I can imagine your oestrogen levels will be non-existent perhaps! Yes I understand Testosterone drops dramatically after hysterectomy.

I agree that I we have to make libido the core issue to get testosterone, when it is beneficial in all the other things you mention.  I was ready for a fight to get testosterone but I've not had to have too much of a fight and I was prepared to pay for private prescription to get it but thankfully I haven't had to do that either. The fact that menopause care is so hit and miss is shocking in this day and age and that you and so many others have to resort to paying and a battle to be heard and treated.

I was told that the progestogens in the oral HRT can trigger worse mood swings if you have suffered with PMS in your fertile years and think was was the case for me when I was on the oral HRT, so being on Utrogestan is definitely an ally 

[VictoryV]

#Postmeno3
This is draconian, I agree with everything you’ve written. Are they not doing blood tests currently due to vial shortage etc or is there a blanket ban on testing at your clinic? Or have they said they don’t test all menopausal women but test peri etc?
Can you contact the clinic via email?

There are women on here that aren’t ‘oestrogen stabilised’ who’ve been trying for ten years. It’s crazy and a huge waste of valuable life. Stability’s not guaranteed to stay stable either!
I hope your apt for Newson Clinic comes soon, if mine comes before yours you can have it.
This makes my blood boil.

Victoria.☀️

[AndieKC]

Thank you all ladies for your replies, learning from all of you that I must persist with the GP and ask for NHS specialist menopause referral if needed. I’d have to travel for miles but still better than high cost private app. I’m on Dr Newson waiting list anyway. I’m getting my testosterone whatever it takes. I am convinced I was fully estrogenised on 2pumps of estrogel already, currently trying 3 pumps again but bloating already building up. Will possibly lie and say I’m on 4 pumps? Awful we have to resort to these lengths but I see no other way. I’ll keep you all posted how it goes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge & support xx