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Hi ya'll....My doc has advised me to go off my estrace two weeks prior to my surgery...YIKES!!! :crying: I've been on it for 10 yrs due to a total hysterectomy and can't imagine one day without it. I know if I miss one day I start getting clammy and I get a headache. Did any of you guys stay on your estrace for the surgery? I had two knees replaced and didn't have to go off. I'm really worried about how I'll feel going off the estrace. HELP!!!

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I was on a hormonal patch for a while and my surgeon did not mention it but I knew I wanted to get off it. I started it becasue of bad and frequent hot flashes. I left it off a few days before surgery and never went back on.

you started the med when you were pre-menopausal age, now that you are menopausal age, what does your gyn recommend?

I figure no matter when I stopped them, I would go through the hot flashes at some point, so why not now?

I would ask your gyn for advice.

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Like Shortgal, I had been on ERT since my hysterectomy and for the last few years, had my gynecologist cut back on the patch strength.

I always wore my patch somewhere in my mid-section and so for my surgery, I took it off------and never put it on again!! I had tried and tried to get off it before, only to be like you and wind up with hot flashes constantly.

But this time, nothing--I mean absolutely nothing! AND if anything, I've been more COLD since surgery than warm!! Go figure!! :tongue:

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The most important reason that they want you off of it is to reduce the chance of getting a DVT (blood clot). We are at high risk for DVT when we have this surgery anyway, and the estrace increases that risk.

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