Re: Get your mammograms! Or better yet, Thermograms

[Guest guest]

I had been exclusively on estradiol the last few years, applied by spray, as I

heard a Dr. on TV say that was the least going through your system means of

using HRT.

Still got breast cancer with none in my family (I'm 54). The oncologist said

with the way mine rated the highest number for growing by means of estrogen,

that it was absolutely the HRT (Estradiol) that caused it. Now I'm 3.5 wks past

double mastectomy and start Arimeidex this week to block any estrogen in my

system (made by Adrenals, can't even build up my adrenals, as that would

increase their estrogen production). It has for side effects:

joint pain, depression, fatigue, hair loss, chipping teeth, nausea and vomiting,

and liver problems.

The oncologist said 75% of breast cancers are hormone related.

HRT certainly doesn't cause breast cancer in everyone, but after what I've been

through & am facing, I feel it's Russian Roulette.

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> But if you do your hrt, use bioidenticals, preferably via the skin

> (especially for the estradiol). It is the progestin that is synthetic that

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> most linked to breast cancer. A trial of bioidenticals in France showed no

> higher breast cancer for at least 5 years, though more study is needed.

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> Joyce

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