When I was 32 years old, I had a full hysterectomy due to an eptopic pregnancy. I've been on HRT every since but recently I'm having a lot of hot flushes that are lasting anything from 5 minutes to 3-4 hours. My concentration is lapsing, and I'm getting irritable. I'm also on anti-depressants that I started around the same time as my hysterectomy. My doctor just increases the amount of medication I'm on and I'm getting sick of taking tablets. What else can I do?

It is really important that you go back and ask your doctor to completely revise your situation. Most doctors these days don't tend to keep women on HRT for too long so you should be due a proper review by now anyway.

If your doctor is still not helpful, I would suggest that you take along a friend or relative, take a list of all that you want looking at, and get your friend/relative to write down everything that the doctor says they are going to do for you. This often gets them to act!

If this still doesn't work then I would see another doctor, just giving you more and more pills is not good medicine!

Eileen Durward