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Steph, it's hormones, nothing more. Well, the cold is something else, but all that other stuff? Hormones.

I'm ready to stop taking HRT, after having been on it all my life. Well, I had to take it when I was a little girl and they discovered something seriously wrong with me (but that's another story!). I've spent many years trying to get my hormones under control, and it's been a real struggle, believe me. (Again, another story.)

Anywho.... I'm gonna be 60 soon. It's time to stop taking this estrogen. Besides, I don't like one of its side effects. For one thing, it does nothing for me as far as "the bedroom," if you get my drift. But what it does is really awful. I have extremely sensitive nipples (I apologize if I'm offending anyone here); my boobs get very tender and sore, such that I can't stand to be touched even a tiny bit, and even holding my puppy hurts. Also (again, my apologies), my areola is black and scaly.

Okay, more info than you need -- sorry --

I want off the stuff, so I stopped taking it about a week ago. My boobs have stopped being quite so tender; I didn't jump out of my skin when hubby gently reached for them the other day, the blackness is scaling off, and my nipples are no longer sore. That's the good news.

Now, the bad: I'm EXTREMELY sensitive! Jen's post yesterday about her diagnosis sent me off into a crying spell, and I can't stop. I'm doing it now. I hate this. This happened to me some 20 years ago. Anyone look at me and smile, and I'd break out in a crying fit. And depression? Oy! The depression! I was outa control.

Well, I can feel the depression coming back; it's not real bad right now but I get waves of it. I refuse to go back on the Wellbutrin.

I'm determined to shake this. I figure I'm taking in more soy than anything else in my diet. Soy is supposed to be almost the same as estrogen, right? That's what I heard. So I'm just waiting for it to kick in.

Okay, sorry about my rambling. I got off on a tangent, didn't I? I meant to tell you that I know what you're going through; your post sounded exactly like I feel right now. (Okay, so maybe my depression has a little more to do with the age thing, but I have to get over it because there's not a damn thing I can do about it.)

I gotta go...

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