@sillyduffer your oral pathologist may be right. My OLP is triggered by stress too. And I suspect menopausal women are more likely to develop this condition - mine started when I went into menopause, and it was a good ten years later that it was actually diagnosed - by an oral pathologist. Till then I went from dentists to dermatologists and they just shrugged that they couldn’t help me!

I’ve been reluctant to go the HRT route because there is a history of breast cancer - among a list of other cancers - in my family, both on my mother’s and father’s side.