I never went on it, and never will. The risk factors associated with HRT have been suspected and well documented for many years, despite the lack of an official government study to back up the anecdotal evidence.

I see this as being another of the many hysterical AMA approaches to women's reproductive health gone badly wrong, and now even the government is declaring it official. I never take the word of doctors or the government at anything beyond face value with these things. They told us we should feed our babies formula, banned us from public places for nursing infants and toddlers (especially the toddlers!), told us the pill and HRT were perfectly safe, that PMS was just another example of hysterical female syndrome, and on and on ad nauseum.

Do I need a male medical and political establishment to tell me what's good for me? Well honey, all I got to say to that is--look at their track record, and tell me what you think women should do. LIVE WITH THE HOT FLASHES!!! Women have for milleniums, so what makes you think we are so special we should treat perfectly normal female functions as a disease state to be "managed" by clueless men?