What does your gyno say about HRT as a preventative for heart health?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HRT not advisable. Understanding that we are aging, and we lose estrogen is a part of the game. Plastic surgery doesn't make us younger, and HRT also does not...it may delay the symptoms of it, but we will still be old ladies eventually.

That’s ridiculous logic. Don’t worry about osteoporosis b/c your bones will crumble into dust one day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone using bio-identical pellets in place of traditional HRT?

It is still HRT. It isn't an alternative, just a different method.

+1 Same risks

[Anonymous]

Ladies,

Before you pontificate “facts”, please educate yourselves. The study that keeps coming up was very, very flawed. Nothing in life is one size fits all. We are all different, we all have different genetics and needs. At 51, I am so advanced into Osteoporosis that HRT is a must do. I am also a person with a dreadful family history of breast cancer coming from every corner. My doctor is a thought leader in gynecology and is monitoring me every which way. There is no right answer. There are no guarantees. Just read everything available before you decide for or against.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After age 74, heart & stroke death rates exceed the total of all cancer deaths combined. It's a disease of aging so the OP has a valid concern. Most women are obsessed with breast cancer to the exclusion of all else. Osteoporosis and frailty will destroy your life as well but nobody talks about those either. You have to decide for yourself. Do you want to feel better and risk a possible cancer or do you want to spend a decade in assisted living and long-term-care. I choose quality vs quantity but that is just me. I have gerontophobia and don't wish to live to old-old age. I live in a medical aid in dying area and a cancer death to me is preferable than living to get Alzheimer's.

But OP feels fine. She feels no need for any kind of drugs at all. I really can't make sense of your post at all, to be honest, except that you seem to hope for an early death, which is an issue unrelated to OP's post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother got breast cancer from it then died in her early 70’s from heart failure. We think the heart problems came from the radiation and chemo, recent studies like the two for her age.

Same thing happened to my aunt. Got breast cancer from HRT, then died of heart failure in her 70s caused by the chemo.