The article indicates that the Big Scary Studies were done on women who were several decades past menopause, and were also done using the mare-urine type of HRT. There's new info indicating that if HRT is started much earlier and with bioidentical hormones, it has a protective effect on a lot of brain function and does not have nearly the negative impact on cancer and heart disease rates that the earlier study indicated.
I've been experimenting with HRT. The combination patch seems to be triggering backaches, bad ones, but I'm not 100% sure of the causation. I'm switching to the oral type as soon as I go pick them up at the drugstore, and I hope that causes less trouble.
I'm also considering asking about adding a little testosterone -- I took it for a year or so a few years back and found that it improved my muscle tone, energy levels and libido. When I entered my current relationship, which is essentially asexual, I came off the testosterone so as not to put greater stress on the difference in our libidos, but now that we're more settled as a couple I think I can deal with that (either by increasing my masturbation or by finding a fuck buddy).
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I've been experimenting with HRT. The combination patch seems to be triggering backaches, bad ones, but I'm not 100% sure of the causation. I'm switching to the oral type as soon as I go pick them up at the drugstore, and I hope that causes less trouble.
I'm also considering asking about adding a little testosterone -- I took it for a year or so a few years back and found that it improved my muscle tone, energy levels and libido. When I entered my current relationship, which is essentially asexual, I came off the testosterone so as not to put greater stress on the difference in our libidos, but now that we're more settled as a couple I think I can deal with that (either by increasing my masturbation or by finding a fuck buddy).