The pain was so sharp it took my breath away. One minute, I was laughing with a friend on a girls’ holiday; the next, I was crying from the agony in my breasts as she hugged me.
I’d been uncomfortable for weeks, but this was the wake-up call I needed to get myself checked out.
The practice nurse I saw a week later studied my notes and then gave her unsettling verdict – the oestrogen element of my HRT regime had recently been increased to a high dose much faster than she thought appropriate for any woman.
She seemed confident reducing the dose
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