Does the pill really suppress your immune system? I can't think of anything else that would cause me to get so sick every time I catch a cold or flu or infection of that sort.

I just get slammed to the point where I am home flat on my back. Coughs are the worst--always they go into bronchitis. I had pneumonia once, serious case of it. I don't know if that would weaken my respiratory system forever or what. I am fifty, I exercise and take many vitamins and supplements.

I seem to never be able to do over the counter anymore, forget it. Aspirin I have to have on hand but usually in conjunction with amoxicillin or cipro. I am running to the doctor every time I get these things or self-medicating with meds left over from the last time. I confess, I save a few pills because I know I'll get slammed again and a person can only go to the ER or minor emerg so much.

Thank you both. I wish the women's clinic could have just given me HRT instead of the pill but I don't know all the ins and outs of why they do the pill for perimeno. Something about you have to have no period for a year and really be in meno before you can get conventional HRT(?) What a year that would be.

I'm convinced the more pills you take the more you need. I take a pill for this, a pill for that until sometimes I think to myself, what would happen to me if I didn't have these on hand or couldn't afford them? Probably end up in the hospital.

And now with all this amoxicillin I better go to Rite Aid and grab some yeast medication--it never ends.