wow, I read your comments and just read the article in the link you sent Contemporary View of Menopausal etc...REALLY insightful...an MD friend of mine started her own practice last year, specializing in hormone treatment, and menapause issues for women and she supports this view, that there is so much ignorance in current OBGYN providers, and the mentality/data against helping women with hormone replacement etc. is dated, old, irrelevant, wrong...so I am going to have to find another OBGYN to help me..maybe john hopkins in baltimore will be more educated..so thank you