I am 57 and have just stopped taking HRT after 7 years a...

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I am 57 and have just stopped taking HRT after 7 years and am plagued with hot flushes and pins and needles in the fingers. I can find plenty of guidance on the menopause and why to/ not to use HRT, but nothing offering information on what happens when you stop HRT! Help!

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    Please check out menopause matters which has a lot of older women still on hrt. Some of you are far too young to be stopping hrt. Consider switching to more natural forms like patches and gels with natural progesterone. If you have to stop hrt you should do this very gradually. My mum recently stopped very gradually at the age of 68 having tried many times before that with terrible symptoms. She is symptom free this time. Some may get over symptoms quickly while others may have them for years! If your doctor refuses to give you hrt, find another or ask for a referral to a meno clinic but research first!! Good luck
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    I was doing the same and feeling like death. I was reading a newsletter from my naturopath and realised

    how terrible the patch was on its own.

    First of all it is only Estrogen so my boobs were huge and so was my stomach and despite the fact

    I rode bicycle everyday . Any we need hormones for our body to function correctly so I went and had a blood

    test and had no testosterone making me a stressed out fool with panic attacks. could never sleep. Anyway

    to cut a long story short the natropath made me a cream to apply that had all the missing elements I needed. Testosterone, Estrogen and teistertone. After two weeks I started losing weight, my boobs went down to

    normal size, I can sleep like a log and have no more panic attacks. I do not sweat any more and feel

    amazing. My memory is fantastic I haven't cried in 6 months. This cream is not a chemical or a synthetic mixture so you can keep applying it. Without these hormones we can become very sick. Also being on the patch has made our organs incompetent to work on their own which is what they would have done if we hadn't had the patch in the first place. Our own bodies would have straightened itself out.

    go get a blood test to see what your hormone levels are and see a naturopath.

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      Thank you for this great advice.  I'll reach out to a naturopath to help me get off my chemical HRT.
  • Posted

    Dear kris54,

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience. I would like to try the naturopathic route and havesent you a private message with a query. I would be grateful if you could please reply.

    many thanks

    ju123

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    Hi. I have been on HRT for over twenty years I'm now 68 Dr wants me off, having other problems have put them in another message. What I'm doing now is cutting one pill out a month it will take seven months see how I go. I'm only on 1mg a day. What ever anyone does don't go off all at once horrendous!!! Cut down as slow as possible. I will keep you in touch on how I'm going. If I had my way I would stay on them until my last breah I have been very well on them.
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      Hello Lilliepop,

      How are you now that it has been 7 months?  I have cut one pill out every 3 months, down to 5 pills a week, so far I am ok. Please let me know.  I take both estrogen and progestin combo pill.  Thank you.

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      Hi there please tell me how your getting on I'm trying to come off premerum after taking it for 24 years and I feel awful I'm 56 and my doctor says I should come off help I don't know what to do jenny
  • Posted

    I am just off HRT after 5 years I started the menopause at 39 very early following my mothers footsteps. My GP recommended femerelle from holland and Barrett to help coming off it. No flushes no sweating and restless sleep it's definitely worth a try
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    I have been having hot flushes and bad night sweats for about 2 years or more, dont want to go on HRT cos of all the horror stories i have heard and that the symptoms come back when you stop them.  After trying several over the counter remedies and went to my doctor and he has put me on Clonidine,  it hasnt stopped them totaly but they are much more bearable.  Give it a try or talk to your gp about it.
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    I have been on HRT for 14 years following a total hysterectomy when I was 34. Because of all the health risks was taken off by GP 4 weeks ago. I was told to just stop them not reduce. For first 10 days I felt great but am now having hot flushes every few minutes that last for up to a minute but am freezing cold in between. I am having trouble sleeping, I have no appetite, I am having horrendous mood swings, constantly in floods of tears and feel suicidal. I really need some help advice or going to go mad
    • Posted

      Hi Suzy,

      I just read this post! Dear are you ok? What help did you receive! Were you able to go back on them? I hope you are well! XO

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    Oh and the sweats...day and night......showering 3 to 4 times daily..Aaaargh!!!
    • Posted

      You can't just stop them dead like that. Why don't you go back to the doctor and say you want to come off slowly. Life is to short to be misrible every day. 

      Even if it take six months to a year doesent matter. Cut out one a month.

      I have been on HRT for over twenty years and am not coming off them, I have tried and can't stand it I really feel so much better on them, I have very strong bones that has to be a good thing it's not all bad side effects. There are women that stay on it well into there seventies. Anyway doctors are really not sure about the side effects.

      good luck.

      maddie smile

       

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      Update..saw different doctor yesterday (female this time) and apparently I have been on the highest dose made (Premarin 1.25mg) she has told me to go back on at a lower dose of 0.6 then decrease to 0.45 then the lowest of 0.3 over a period of time. Eventually the aim is to then decrease to every second day, then 3rd etc til can stop altogether.....wish me luck ladies lol
    • Posted

      Great! Good luck. Give that a try if it doesent work try another way.

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