Geraldine, 50. I have my follow-up next Thursday and I've actually been looking forward to it for once, which is not a sentence I thought I'd be typing. Seven weeks ago I came home from the GP feeling like I was falling apart. Couldn't sleep, flushing every hour on the hour, crying at adverts. You know the drill. And now... I don't know. Something has shifted. Not everything, but enough that I noticed. The thing I keep wanting to tell my doctor is about the food and movement piece, because I think it matters and I'm not sure she'll ask. I started eating something with proper protein after my walks and weights sessions, just eggs or Greek yoghurt or whatever was in the fridge, nothing fancy. I don't know if that's done anything or if it's the HRT settling or both or neither. But my sleep has been genuinely better for about three weeks now and my mood is less like a weather system. I'm writing it all down before Thursday so I can actually say the useful bits out loud instead of going blank the second I sit down in that room. Still having flushes. Still tired by 3pm. But frightened? Not like I was. That's the bit I keep coming back to. x