Thank you all kind souls. I believe I am post-menopausal (the doctor seems to concur) and I am considering HRT for the first time. My own mother (who is in any case in another hemisphere and therefore harder to communicate with) did not have HRT because she had experienced cancer early in her life. I don't really have anyone in this country to go to for advice so I'm looking for people to share their own concerns, experiences and choices. Not to tell me what to do, but to help me to clarify in my own mind what I want.