Night owl I don’t recall what my side effects were aside from resuming my leg hair growth. It was a very unstable time in my life. I do remember that the hormones made me more unstable and did nothing for the hot flashes. I was taking a pill of some sort.

I wouldn’t be surprised if hormones are now safer, my experience was more than a decade ago. I have heard creams are better. But I haven’t kept up on all that so I wouldn’t know.