Lifting the Estrogen Veil: Starting MHT and Feeling Myself Again

Reflections on a Week of Hormone Therapy and the Difference It's Made

One week ago, I started HRT (now called Menopause Hormone Treatment or MHT), and it feels like I've been reborn.

After months of wondering what on earth was happening to me—collapsing into bed mid-afternoon, struggling to make dinner, drowning with overwhelm, missing work—I was sure something seriously wrong was going on. It wasn’t just physical. Mentall…