Re: postmenopausal HRT/fibroid studies

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>I am new! How do I respond to these emails I am recieving?

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Welcome ,

Do what ever you did to send this! :> Actually I usually just hit

reply and it sends the response to the list.

Pam

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I am new! How do I respond to these emails I am recieving?

At 01:28 PM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:

>Sandy,

>you ask good questions and I'm glad you're on here!

>Deb

>

> > From: irispress@...

> > Reply-To: uterinefibroids

> > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:50:51 EDT

> > To: uterinefibroids

> > Subject: Re: postmenopausal HRT/fibroid studies

> >

> > What I'd like to see is studies on post menopausal HRT studies done on post

> > UAE women. While it is safe to assume that replenishing conditions

> that set

> > the fibroids up to grow to begin with will re-stimulate them, I'm thinking

> > studies listed in there are on non-UAE women. What happens after

> restricting

> > blood supply throughtout the uterus??? Can new fibroids grow in a

> > blood-restricted environment?? Can the hormones overcome the effects

> of the

> > UAE?? Do artificial hormones affect the fibroid growth in the same way as

> > natural hormones after a UAE??

> >

> > I'd love to check out these kinds of studies if anyone runs across them.

> > Seems like most of the ones I've seen so far are about how symptoms change

> > which were there before the UAE was performed, usually focusing on 1)

> > shrinkage and 2) whether other procedures needed to be performed

> later. That

> > doesn't help plan the future.

> >

> > Has anyone on here had UAE, then gone on hormones?? What happened??

> > If not, well, I guess my body will tell me. I can tell you this: if my

> > fibroids take as long to develop the second time as they did the first

> (15-20

> > years) I won't have to worry about it.

> > Sandy

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