Firstly, I hope your hormones were tested before you started your medicines. I hope you are seeing a specialist who will test your hormones after, say, six months to see how they are being used by your body. Secondly, I’ve been on bio transdermal HRT twice since I went into menopause at 47. I am now 68 my second time I started about a half a year ago in conjunction with my osteoporosis bone medicines. I have an endocrinologist for the bone medicines and a hormone menopause doctor for the HRT. I feel so much better from a balanced regimen of HRT. To the person who said they’re not gonna take the bone medicine cause they’re not gonna die of osteoporosis. It is possible they should know that if your bones aren’t strong enough and you fracture or break them you indeed might die from a broken hip. When you get older, the pain is so excruciating from a fall and your body is so fragile that it is possible they can’t replace your hip because you aren’t strong enough to recover and one dies very quickly. I had two close relatives die from breaking their hips within a couple days at 80 and 90 years of age. When they opened me up for cervical surgery at 67 My bones fell apart in their hands, even though my DEXA scans showed I had strong bones. My surgeon told me the DEXA test are only general and I can have specific areas that are weak. That was all I needed to suffer on the rec class and the TYMLOS! It was a short period of adjustment and I don’t even notice I’m on those medication’s now. If you have a good hormone doctor, it’s gonna take you a little while to get balanced on the hormone medication. It’s not one-size-fits-all even on the compounded formulas. To me feeling as good as I do and having the stamina that I now have mix rubbing the medicines on my arms totally worth it every day I didn’t go for the pallet or the patches because they don’t deliver as well as the transdermal and the progesterone Prometrium gel pill. One also needs to know if they have cancer risks, which I do in my family so there’s particular dosages that are avoided as well as recommended to stay balanced. I also take DIM which is a supplement that “clears“ the hormones. I suppose that make means having them disperse and not build up in my body properly, it is overwhelming to do the research and figure out what’s right, but if you work closely with a qualified a Doctor Who is caring that would probably be best because the research is pretty sophisticated these days.