Does anyone else fee like this?

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Hello.

I'm 53 and in the menopause. Slightly longer story with endo and PCOS and at least 10 years since my last period. Hormones have always been an issue and I was very glad to stop having them.

Over the last year or so I feel like I'm really struggling. Low mood, have lost all interest in my career and just can't get the motivation/energy to do the things I used to just do. I'm also fucking fat now!

I've not had a great response from NHS GP about HRT and I suppose this is the part that I'm hoping someone might have some experience with.
Has anyone been given HRT with endo alongside a history of cancer in their mother's family? 4 of my mother's six sisters have died of cancer (different types), my mother thankfully has not had any.
This concerned the GP I saw and she wasn't sure that I could take HRT.

I really feel like I've lost all interest in life and I would quite like to go back to some form of normal. I'd be grateful to hear if anyone's had a similar history but has accessed HRT.
TIA

and my apologies for the typo in the title.

It's hard to understand where your GP is coming from with their views on HRT because what you have said doesn't fit with the science.

Your aunts' health is not relevant unless it was breast cancer. If that's the case, your Mum may have been advised to have the BRAC gene test, and you too.

The guidance for being careful with HRT/ family history is if two first relatives ( a mum and your sister) had BC at a young age.

Otherwise, drs don't regard it as significant.

HRT actually reduces the risk of bowel cancer.

Can you see another GP?

From what you have said there is no reason why you can't have HRT . You may find that a private menopause specialist ( a gynaecologist who knows about end and PCOS and menopause) is the right person .