No I never had HRT... I refused it. I knew what was going on from reading European studies showing terrible things with estrogens.

Here in US, Ayerst took their drug--Premarin-- with few users and within a few years it was #1 in sales. (just like statins are today). To keep it on top they ran studies endlessly and paid for them, to show estrogens prevented heart attacks (which they don't--they actually caused them) and prevented Alzheimers' and what not. When the independent HERS study was finally done here (based on the European studies) it had to be stopped before it ended due to deaths and other nasty things.

That was the end of HRT as we knew it for almost 2 decades!
It is still around highly modified... but I do not trust any of it, I am sorry to say.