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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 56. I was already on the lowest-dose of HRT when the bilateral (meaning, “couldn’t be that one old injury”), hip-to-foot joint stiffness manifested.

I doubled up my prescribed dose of HRT for a week or two — placing double patches, twice as frequently as prescribed. The pain 97% went away and I returned to baseline.

I told my menopause certified MD what I had done and requested an increased dose, which she agreed to do. I will not live like that and am willing to court an increased risk of certain cancers in order to maintain an optimal level of estrogen in my system so as to keep generalized 6 out of 10 joint pain at bay. Really.

I do walk about 4-5 miles a day, fwiw, which was a constant throughout this period. That’s how I immediately knew it was estrogen- related and  not due to a sedentary lifestyle or similar [/quote]

Chemo and radiation would be much more painful …

There are many causes of muscle and joint pain other than hormones and the relationship between hormones and pain is not clear. HRT shows only a very modest impact in the research and since it is such a common and varied complaint in aging (including among men) you need to rule out a lot of other causes first. If you aren’t doing weight lifting and really upping cardio you aren’t really trying.

For example I had terrible shoulder pain in my early 40s (frozen shoulder on both sides) and now zero pain in my early 50s after several years of real strength training and swimming. [/quote]

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