Post #14

The HRT Shortage, myth or reality?

The Menopausal Incident Report · Filed under: One More Thing Went Sideways

So this rant is wild and insane and totally irrational (but then that’s just a day ending in Y). I was a wild one in my youth, there was sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and a fair amount of booze. And I was considered the shrinking violet, the shy wallflower that had no fun! Even with all that partying and hanging out in cool places with stallions and their guitars surrounded by mountains of white stuff, I was never hooked on anything. I could drop it all at any time (yeah, yeah spoken like a true addict!),but I COULD and I DID to the great fucking annoyance of everyone who’s closest brush with cold turkey was after a Christmas meal. Type A personality and will power is actually a thing, I have (had it). Which is why now that I’m firmly entrenched in Cronedom, I get VERY nit picky about details.

So what’s bothering me right now is what happens if I run out of my drugs, no not the weed or the booze (can’t drink anymore, at last my liver gets a rest), BUT THE HRT! I keep a VERY beady eye on my stash, in fact I have a bit of a hoard of patches and pills from the various doses over the months and years. Just in case I run the FUCK out. I start to sweat (not the night sweats), I get bladder leaks (not the usual ones), I flush hot and cold and generally start acting like a withdrawal nightmare. And that’s even before the last progesterone pill is rattling in the bottle! I have the pharmacy on speed dial, my online portal at the ready in case I need to SCREAM BLUE MURDER at the useless endocrinologist of mine.

So imagine my absolute terror and supersized sweats, when I heard that there was a shortage of HRT patches. As if sleeplessness wasn’t bad before, now I’m just wired all night in fear. Crap I was lining up back up online pharmacies just in case or picturing myself on shady street corners meeting iffy characters from the dark web! When your wellbeing (such as it is) depends on a drug the idea of it getting yanked is VERY DAMN scary.

So I looked into the matter and found good news bad news. The good news being that the FDA removed the black box label from menopause/estrogen-related products in the US at the end of 2025. Good because some science twats got their facts wrong and labeled HRT as super dangerous; (yes there are risks but we’ll talk about those in another post- just do your due diligence) then realized they had let their bias get in the way of research. Bad because, EVERYONE now wants HRT, no thanks to quite a few vapid influencers (whatever the FUCK that is) saying you can get rid of your wrinkles even at age 25.

ALMIGHTY GIANT FUCKWITS. At 25 you don’t have fucking wrinkles and if you’re THAT bothered get Botox and not HRT reserved for the ones of us who will otherwise commit a massacre without it!

So yes some pharmacies have seen huge delays and disruption to their supply chains as demand rocketed. Terrifying when you’re a Crone in need of your hit. Once upon a time I would freak out if I left my makeup bag out of my luggage for a trip, then it was sunscreen, now it’s my HRT. Getting old sucks ‘really low hanging, saggy, scraping on the ground and gathering lint,’ balls.

Keep the Chaos Coming!