Thank you everyone, I have been off HRT for just over a year now, I was getting over the sweats but recently with problems with family (we are only carers for hubby's father with Alzheimer's) anything that worries me sends me into a spin and makes the sweats worse. Our customers are fairly understanding, father-in-law won't have a carer and as he's the "end user" and can still have a say, then we are on our own, thank the lord he's only half a mile away. My HRT was (Oh God, I've forgotten, but it was a conti) Ah, remembered.. Elleste duet conti, still can't remember what strength. when I had to stop I was given femoston? for a month just as a step down... And then nothing... the dryness started about 6 months ago... and as for height 5 foot 2 inches in the morning, and on my knees by bedtime.