" My mother did not take replacement hormones and had a silent heart attack and Alzheimer's. There was no description in the article of the women who did indeed suffer strokes, heart attacks or breast cancer. What was their general health status? There are women who look half dead at 50 with obesity, lack of general health principles, who never exercise and may smoke, while others may be in excellent health."

" I find all of this very frustrating, so I'll just have my cup of coffee after I put on my estradiol patch."

" I appreciated the long article trying to sort out the pros and cons of taking estrogen for hot flashes, but nowhere do I see any reference to the highly uncomfortable adrenaline surges that immediately precede each hot flash -- at least for me."

" They start in the pit of the stomach, surge down the legs to the feet and are equivalent in strength to seeing your kid on the edge of a cliff or dashing out into the road in front of a car. I always assumed that the heat and flush was in response to the adrenaline rush, but nobody else seems to talk about it."

" Yet another article on HRT that spends time detailing the perils of hormone replacement but never says what exactly the "moderate to severe menopausal symptoms" are that drive women to risk breast cancer, stroke and other severe problems."

" Then a whole article on hot flashes, as if breaking a sweat was the height of going through the change. For heaven sake, if night sweats and having to take my shoes off because my feet are on fire were the worst of it, I'd never have considered HRT with my family's history of breast cancer. But let me tell you, the inability to think, short-term memory
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