Just prescribed HRT (Primaque) and told nothing

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I had both ovaries removed which cause what is known as the surgical menopause. I was handed a prescription for this without any discussion so would be grateful if someone could let me know the pro's and cons of HRT and this medication, also what side effects should be expected.

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    Typical! Well I've been on HRT since 1991 following removal of my ovaries and to be perfectly honest I can only say positive things. I had no side effects whatsoever. People say I don't look 61. My skin is almost wrinkle free and I have until the last 6 months(I've been diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis) felt really well.

    Others on this forum will say differently I know but I can only speak for myself. I now am reducing the doseage gradually. Years ago they thought it prevented you from going through a menopause and all the symptoms that go with it but they now know that's not the case.

  • Posted

     How aweful for you, especially after your procedure.

    Personally I would make an appointment with the Nurse at your practice and ask her for advice, although I do have a good GP I do tend to use 'Doctor Google' (bad I know) and these forums if I have any concerns. 

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    I had both ovairies removed and a Hysterecomy in 1981, I was 37 at the time. The surgeon placed a HRT implant at the same time as he did the op. I was on the implants for 8 years, replacing them abt every 4 weeks which was a bit of a chore. Then the wonderful Estraderm X patches came out and I went onto them, size 50 at first then 100 as 50 was not enough, I am now 70 and on to the size 50 Estraderm patch. I tried to go lower onto the 25 but had a really terrible time for 5 months then I was very pleased to get back to 50.

    My advice is never take the tablet form which has to go through the liver etc., The patches have a minimal risk or a greater benefit, depends on your mindset.

    No side effects whatsoever only a great sense of well being, only women who have had their ovaries removed know of the dreadful time if they are not getting the right HRT dose or none at all as in some cases.

    Take a look at the findings of Yale and Pennsylvania medical school research.

    They state that 50,000 women without ovaries in the USA alone have died needlessly because they didn't take HRT or came off it because they were frightened off it because of the findings of the WHI trials.

    No women who didn't take HRT that is those without ovaries reached the age of seventy.

    A surgical menopause is very different from going through the normal menopause.

    I could go on forever about the issues involving HRT, I have read loads of research papers and their findings over the years and do not have any doubts whatsoever about the benefits in taking it for women who have their ovaries removed.

    A women of my age would still be producing some estrogen who had gone through the normal menopause, it doesn't stop at 52 like some professionals .

    tell you.

  • Posted

    Hi

    Did you have your womb and tubes removed as well? Because if you had Premaque would not be suitable as it contains oestrogens and progestogens, this tablet form is only suitable for women going through the menopause.

  • Posted

    Do you know what the reason was for leaving the womb, not up on that one.
    • Posted

      My consultant, the person who put me on this, has not been at all helpful. I can only assume that as it was due to benign dermoid cysts it could be left. The operation is called Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy
    • Posted

      These cysts form in the ovaries and though many women have them and have no symptoms, I was one of the unlucky ones for whom they cause pain and incontinence among other things. They can be removed but if the ovary is left there is a high chance of recurrence, or so the internet tells me
  • Posted

    Hi, I can't find any info on this hormone but it sounds like it could be made from pregnant horses urine, as Premarin is. Pregnant horses are tied in stalls, given limited amounts of water to concentrate their urine, and their male foals are killed at birth as they are unwanted. Their urine is collected in a bag whilst they stand still for hours on end. To me that is the con to this type of HRT. There are many alterntatives to this hormone.

    I would look into the hormone and how it is made, and request a synthetic one if you are not happy with the answers. Good luck.  

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      It is pregnant mare but with progestarine added, and turns out should not have been given it at all due to other conditions have

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