Charleyfarley, there's nothing wrong with taking a break, taking progesterone only for a while first (utrogestan) or waiting if you think it's too early for you - but don't decide in a snap decision never to take it again, is the gist of what I'm saying.
Nas, I'm sorry but I don't need to repeatedly state every thing, every single time I write something to someone - just because you think I should. A quick google of anything I'm saying would bring up research studies and it kinda clogs up a post to state details every single time.
I'm fed up of hearing, on social media and now it seems on here as well - from women who can't take HRT, who deal with this by dissing HRT, dismissing the health benefits and insisting that you can be just as healthy without it. The science on all this is very clear now. It's really poor logic, to get out of cognitive dissonance by telling yourself "I can't take HRT, so I must find reasons to make that okay in my mind by not wanting to take it anyway".
I'm really sorry for the women who can't take it - and I mean that - I would be devastated. But to these women who can't take it, I'd say: Please don't get out of that difficult situation by promoting HRT as dangerous, ineffective or not necessary. Just because you can't take it, doesn't mean you should become anti-HRT (in even a slight way) as a response. Deal with the cognitive dissonance instead of causing harm to your sisters worldwide by causing them to make choices which are not in their best interests, just to help you feel less conflicted. Of course there are many other things you can turn to, to try to help menopause symptoms - but to promote them to people who *can* take HRT and to diss HRT just because you can't take it, is a fallacy which does great harm to others.
After menopause, when oestrogen is no longer made in the ovaries, I found out that it can instead, be made in the fatty tissues of the body (when enzymes change other hormones into oestrogen). Obviously the amount of oestrogen produced is far less than pre meno, but it seems that women are left with a tiny bit of oestrogen at least, rather than zero.
Actually, that type of estrogen is called estrone. It's weak, it's inflammatory and it doesn't have the same health benefits as the estradiol which your ovaries make and which is in HRT.
Maybe state which "diseases" women may be prone to developing, without HRT?
I've stated them many times, I'm sorry I forgot to repeat them in this one thread. Without taking HRT you're at increased risk of heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis and sarcopenia.