I went to my cardiologist yesterday. Every year I have to wear a Holter monitor for a day because of a heart ablation I had in 2007. If you don’t know what a Holter monitor is, it’s a 24-hour mobile, wires-hanging-off-your-body EKG. The nurse practitioner saw me, (not the doctor, which is ok because his voice puts me to sleep). She was very sweet. She asked me if I was still taking Estradiol and Progesterin. “No,” I said. “I’ve totally gone off those. I was on them for a very long time and I wanted to be sure to stop.” What I didn’t tell her is how long I actually had taken those hormones. 37 years. I started with HRT when I was 17 because I have Kallman’s Syndrome. You may never meet a person who has this condition. It only affects 1 in 10,000 people (or 1 in 86,000, according to one source) so that’s quite a range and far more males have it than females (as do most neg...
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