He related it [cysts] to Hormone Replacement Therapy and said it is very common with that, which I didn't know. I've been on it for 10 years and hadn't really worried about it. 

So when did you start the HRT?  When you were about ...? 

When I was 45 and I've just come off it. 

And how do you feel now?

Absolutely wonderful and half a stone lighter [laughing]. 

So when you went on the HRT were there symptoms that you were having, menopausal symptoms, hot flushes...?

Yes, yes, yes.   

And how did the HRT help?  

Well, it didn't stop the hot flushes but I had various other funny symptoms, which it did control. Yes, it was good while I was on it and then my doctor said to me a few weeks ago, "you've been on it 10 years, it's time you thought about life without it. And you should be through all that by now anyway." So, I never got rid of the hot flushes while I was on it and I still get the hot flushes now but I'm so used to them, so I don't worry about it.