Almost every patient asks this usually because of the 2002 Womens Health Initiative study that linked HRT to breast cancer
Habila N, Kulkarni K, Lee TH, Al-Garawi ZS, Serpell LC, Aguilar MI
Symptoms include a host of psychological, physiological, and physical manifestations, including depression, outbursts of anger, anxiety, mood swings, memory loss, inability to concentrate, learning disabilities, sleep deprivation, increased risk for heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, diabetes, loss of libido, menstrual irregularities, premature menopause, obesity, loss of lean body mass, muscular weakness, and a number of other medically documented conditions. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD is a common diagnosis for those who incidentally suffered head trauma yet find it difficult to cope, or worse, manifest a full range of conditions related to hormone deficiencies
Why bacteriostatic water and not something else This question comes up constantly
For example, Jammes et al