Thank you both, Wrensong and Hurdity, for your full replies.
I can only say that my QOL a year ago, even with "M.E.", before the HRT route began, was more fulfilling than it is now. Then, I could pace my activity and amount of stimulation in order to live simply, but very richly and meaningfully. Now that the HRT is in control, my life feels complicated, draining and unpredictable.
I will check again on the type of testing done for T and double check that thyroid was indeed okay as was stated. It is extremely difficult trying to engage fully with the NHS specialist with only the phone as the medium and with the time such complexity merits and so randomly (no bookable times). Testing is deferred to the practice nurse at my NHS surgery via notes to the gp, the content of which I don't receive. I feel I could be sitting face to face for hours trying to find out what's going on, getting the testing done then and there as a result of those exchanges and it not feeling so disjointed and protracted which hasn't helped, but these are the times we are now in.
However, thank you both for your knowledge of oral E diminishing T mobility if I've got that right and who's to say the same could apply to transdermal. It just hasn't been researched, or sufficiently, yet? 🤔