An honest and clean post.
In my opinion, it is all about knowledge and making informed choices.
HRT is readily available to those women who would like to trial it.
For those who don't want HRT or for whom HRT is off limits, then it is about trying to find alternative remedies if symptoms are unmanageable.
Not sure what I think about taking HRT for "precautionary" measures. My thinking is, no symptoms = no HRT. Only because, trying to hit the sweet spot with HRT, I think can be incredibly diffcult and as someone mentioned in a previous post, you can't know how adding in oestrogen, is going to affect the function of other parts of an already complex system (I'm thinking thyroid in particular) Those women who slap on a patch or a couple of squirts of gel and feel fine, are very fortunate.
In the main, I don't feel that members try to push HRT onto other members. No one should be stating that HRT is required for bone health, the preventing of oestoperosis, dementia etc because I am sure we all know of at least one person, close or distant, who has taken HRT and still developed the above. It can also be unsettling for those who simply cannot take HRT, due to active oestrogen and progesterone positive cancers for example, perhaps leading them to worry that they will develop dementia, in addition to dealing with a life threatening disease.
Knowlege is power as they say. We have choices and information at our finger tips these days. We need to tap into this information, to help up make the right decisions.
Would also like to add, that although we are not medically qualified as members, offering our own experiences, on certain subjects, such as VA for example, can be incredibly useful and empowering to others.
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