What age did you start HRT and what symptom was your primary driver for starting?

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What age did you start HRT and what symptom was your primary driver for starting?

44. Wakefulness throughout the night, every night. Hot flushes, too, but mostly I was an exhausted zombie and that needed fixing. It is now fixed.

51 was waking every 3 hours and had debilitating hot flushes. It fixed both symptoms within days. Magic stuff.

Around 53.
Palpitations were the thing that decided it for me, although I had some other symptoms too.

@VivIsBlondei just ordered from boots. I had an online consultation form to fill in and had to pay about £80 for three months. You don’t need your gp if you can afford to buy the medication.

47

Hot flushes

Did you find systemic hrt or local, or both, helped this?

I had a similar problem, started systemic HRT at 39 for other reasons (anxiety, migraines, poor sleep) and the vulval issues receded.

It's never occurred to me the systemic hrt could have helped, I thought it needed to be local estrogen to help those symptoms.

I take vaginal estriol cream - it’s worked for me.

I think I was about 46. By that time I’d woken up at 3 am on the dot for three years.

A week on HRT and it was sorted.

I was 46 and it was chronic migraines that did it for me

51, hot flushes. I had been taking natural substance since 47 which had really worked, but it had stopped working by age 51.

45.5, had night sweats, nocturia, wakefulness, anxiety, joint pain, forgot words in the middle of a sentence, couldn’t remember people’s names.

All massively improved. Although have listened to 6 stone on Mounjaro since then, so difficult to determine what was the HRT and what was much needed weight loss.

45 - rage and brain fog

Yes and yes!!

There’s not one near me!

Did anyone have joint pain as the main symptom? I am aching all over, all the time. I put it down to running/ gym/ age and am just accepting it as part of my life now and v mild anaemia ( been rejected for blood donation last 3 times). Periods closer, lighter, longer though.